Residential Building Project Assignment

Running head: REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Reflective Essay
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1REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Reflective Essay 1
Stage 1
Working as a liaison for a firm that connects contractors with residential building
project, I was busy assigning a contractor to a project and I was looking at the inventory that
they used. It suddenly caught my eye that the contractor was using low-quality cement. I
decided to have a conversation with him, expecting that it would be a gruelling affair.
However, the contractor actually understood after I had briefly managed to explain the
dangers of using low-quality cement and suggested using a better quality of cement.
Stage 2
There was a feeling of apprehension as I contacted the contractor, thinking that a lot
of verbal abuses and invectives would be hurled against me. However, in retrospect, I should
not have been so apprehensive in the first place. I used my ability in expressing my
knowledge into words that are easily understood. The contractor, for his part, was an
understanding person who was able to take my advice in the proper spirit. Given the
circumstances, I was pretty good. I learnt that I should be more confident in speaking about
potential risks.
Stage 3
Quite clearly, my ability to identify and assess risks and pointing out the potential
harm that it could do can be applied to the arena of management and financing, where
identifying risks and assessing their magnitude and likely consequences plays a huge part..
Suffice it to say that I should not be scared or apprehensive regarding pointing out potential
risks that may cause harm or damage. I ought to be honest and truthful to the best of my
abilities, in communicating what could be risky and how can that risk properly be solved.

2REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Stage 4
Accordingly, I shall strive to be more confident and more outspoken regarding any
potential harm that could be caused by any number of risks. Such an approach would not only
make the management consider how to tackle those risks but it would also allow me to
suggest improvements and amendments so that the construction plan or the materials use
ensure the durability of the construction.
DCC1
Through this Developing Competence Claim, I wish to claim the element of
competence that concerns with the ability identify, assess and manage risks at the developing
level. The element of attainment which would back up my claim involves identifying,
assessing and managing product, project, process, environmental or system risks that could
be brought about by material, social, economic or environmental factors. At the developing
level, I am able to ascertain quite obvious risks which may cause great harm and danger if
those risks are not mitigated or eliminated in any way, therefore the identification of risks is
an important skill to be claimed.
In the above example, I am always mindful to observe the inventory of equipment and
construction materials being used by the contractor in order to ascertain if the contractor is
utilizing quality products and implements or not. This helped me to instantly identify a risky
cement brand that the contractor was using out of cost considerations. Having some fair
knowledge about the industry and its standards, I was able to fairly assess the amount of risk
that could be involved if the cement was used in any form. In order to eliminate the risk, I
advised the contractor to strive towards a quality investment which would make him use a
better brand of cement, which would eventually make him a prestigious and trustworthy
contractor in the industry; this is how I was able to manage the risk successfully.