Project Management The Wellness Centre

Questions: Managers at The Wellness Centre selected Anthony Jobs as the project manager for the Recreational Intranet Project. The schedule goal is six months and the budget is RM250,000.Anthony had previous project management and system analysis experience within the company, he was an avid sports enthusiast.Anthony was starting to put the project team together and he knew that he would have to develop a survey to solicit input from all employees about this new system and make sure it was user-friendly.a) Identify and discuss the range of skills essential for Anthony Jobs to lead a team and complete the project successfully. b) What to do consider to be current issues facing project managers within the above said organization and provide some examples of solutions current issues involved. c) Critically discuss the increasing importance if project management for innovation and change on the Recreational Intranet Project. Answers: Introduction According to Turner (2012), it is one of the application of skills, knowledge, techniques, etc that effectively and efficiently execute the projects. From the point of view of business, project management allows the organization in achieving core competency via attaining the goals of business. This study describes the required skills for a project manager in order to complete the project. However, this study is conducts project management skills of a project manager in a particular organization Wellness Centre. A) Identification and Discussion the range of essential skills for Anthony Jobs to lead a team and complete the project successfully In order to complete the project successfully for Wellness Centre, following are the essential skills for Anthony Jobs Communication: It is the most important skills for each project regarding project manager. Clear communication helps in motivating team efficiently. Both written and verbal communications skills allow the project manager in representing the expectation to over team. Confidence: Confidence makes the ability of a good team leader. Confident of the project manager helps in securing the decision making process during the project. Dalcher (2011) suggested that self-confidence project manager allows in reassuring his or her authority within the project. Fair: In order to complete the project, project manager have to treat with their member fairly. Through the integrity gain, project manager has to build trust over their team member. Influential: This helps project manager in inspiring their team member to meet the goals and objectives of the project. Influential project manager helps in managing changes the workplace. Negotiation: Negotiation skills are also important in order to complete the project successfully. Negotiation skill allows the project manager in understanding the current event of ongoing project of a conflict workplace (Doloi, 2011). Negotiation skill also allows the project manager in streamlining decision-making process that easily resolves the issues of problems. B) Current issues facing by the project managers in Wellness Centre and Solution The main issues that faced by the project managers Anthony Jobs within the Wellness Centre are Lack of Accountability: Gladden (2011) argued that the qualities of leadership are really shines when the member of the team within a project takes proper responsibility according to their role. Apart from, that majority of project is succeeding due to good motivational skills of team leader. On the other hand, Hllgren (2012) suggested that team member are the key person of achieving success of a project. However, within the taken project at Wellness Centre, Anthony Jobs mainly faces the issue named lack of accountability. In this project, lack of accountability brings the complete halt. In the ongoing project of Wellness Centre, Anthony Jobs faces the issues of finger pointing and avoiding blame. This was unpredictable. Anthony Jobs was unable to direct his team members towards achieving the goal of the project (Journal, 2013). Apart from that, the training staffs of the current project of Wellness Centre was not showed their activities in providing training that improves skills and knowledge of team member towards achieving project goals. Dependencies: It was also another important issue for project managers within the taken project of Wellness Centre. In order to achieve success within a project dependencies rely on the centre. Due to lack of time and multiple work for Anthony Jobs, he was not able to go to the team member individually and got status of ongoing project (Kodukula, 2011). As a result, lack of information was hidden to Anthony Jobs that takes long time to complete the project successfully. Scheduling: The team member of the project was not properly understood about the dependencies. Therefore, they face difficulties in setting the correct scheduling according to the requirement. Administrative Tasks: After start the project, it first time overwhelmed due to lack of associated task of administration (Mastrofini, 2013). Solutions In order to solve the above problems that faced by the project managers at workplace of Wellness Centre following structural methods has to use Ensure Root Cause Analysis: In order to solve the problems, need to analysis the root cause of problems (Throndson et al., 2012). Project Manager is able to solve the problem after understanding the root cause. It helps in identifying appropriate reason of the cause. Demystifies the problem solving Process: It is also another step of solving problem. Project manager have to understand the method of work of all participants within the project. This process helps in identifying contribution of team member individually. Meng (2012) suggested that it is the drives of solving problems within a project. C) Critical discussion of the increasing importance if the project management for change and innovation on the Recreational Intranet Project From the point of view of innovation and change on the Recreational Intranet Project, importance of project management is increased regarding efficiency, flexibility as well as human focused. The project managers with the excellent project team are able to make more efficient project regarding change and innovation of an existing project (Morris, 2013). In order to make innovative and change the project, staffs along with the excellent member takes the total responsibility in implementing successful changes as well as evaluating the project result with practical life cycle. Apart from that, project management with excellent leadership perfectly combines changing circumstance and structured if the project. Minelle (2013) stated that project managers spend lot of time in ensuring the successful changes and make the innovation for project. The project managers take the responsibilities according to the requirements of project regarding change and innovation. Apart from that, project man agement rely the greater communication with proper discipline that emphasizes the successful changes and innovation in project. Conclusion This study represented the method of successful project management within the organizational project of Wellness Centre that is Recreational Intranet Project. In the first phase of this study, analyst described the factors that help in managing project successfully by the project managers and achieve goal of the project. 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