Reflective Learning: Managing a Web Design Project

This reflective learning assignment examines the author's experience leading a web design team through a project. The analysis covers planning, organizing, leadership, and controlling aspects, highlighting challenges with time management and impact on company reputation. The author identifies areas for improvement in their leadership style based on coaching leadership theory.

Running head: INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIVE LEARNING
Managing People in Organization
Name of the Student:
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Incident............................................................................................................................................2
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................2
Critical evaluation............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
Reference.........................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
Managing people in an organization is crucial part of the job of the managers that
explicitly deal with a lot of employees. The management skills help in effective completion of a
project and at the same time assists in work allocation (Hoefling2012). This study is based on an
individual reflective learning through the description of an occurrence related to management of
people and finding the inherent problem that exists within it.
Incident
I am team leader of a company which specializes in web designing and development. The
team under my direction consists of 20 employees that have knowledge and expertise in different
field of web designing and development. A project was assigned to our team based on both
designing and developing a website of a phone company. I planned the task after a thorough
analysis and broke into several parts. I then organized the parts and divided it into my team.
Then I assigned the task to my team members and conveyed that the task needs to be completed
within a 15-day duration. I leaded the whole team for the 15 days and controlled the time
management so that the project gets completed within the 15-day duration. However, my team
was unable to complete the project within the 15-day deadline, rather it took 20 days.
Analysis
Planning: After I was assigned the project, the went to analyze the whole project and
divide into several sections and parts. I divided into parts because the project was big with
different types of sub parts which can be worked upon by different employees. Organizing:
After the analysis of the project, the task was organized based on the specialization and
capabilities of the team members. Leadership: I leaded the team and supervised on the everyday

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task completion and also supervised on overcoming the hurdles that arose during every day
work. I motivated the team and to stay focused all the time and not to be distracted if they faced
any hurdles. According to the coaching leadship theory (Robertson, 2016), I found that my
supervision was not proper and inculating a sense of self management into the team members
can enhance the task completion. Controlling: I controlled the whole team regarding the task
division and supervision and also controlled the resources that utilized during the project
completion.
Critical evaluation
The approach was effective for most of the time. From the analysis to the task division, I
have executed the job accordingly. However, I would be focusing on the time management. Just
because time management was not done in a proper way, the project deadline missed. Although
the task was done as per the expectation of the phone. However, the delayed service rendered
damaged the reputation of our company to some extent (Ramirez and Zamora 2014). If I had
supervised the task on day to day basis and had been a bit stricter with the everyday task
completion, then the project could have been completed within the deadline.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be concluded that, each of the management functions
helped me to analyze the loopholes present in my leadership qualities, that hampered the
execution of the task accordingly. Finding the alternative strategies so that I can improve my
leadership qualities benefitted me.

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Reference
Hoefling, T., 2012. Working virtually: Managing people for successful virtual teams and
organizations. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Ramirez, W.M. and Zamora, J.T., 2014. Management Competencies of Educational Managers in
the Performance of Trilogy Functions Of SUCs in MIMAROPA, Philippines. IAMURE
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 11(1), pp.1-1.
Robertson, J., 2016. Coaching leadership: Building educational leadership capacity through
partnership. New Zealand Council for Educational Research. PO Box 3237, Wellington 6140
New Zealand.