CU London Relocation Project: Management Skills and Strategies

This report assesses the essential management skills required for CU London's relocation to a new site within a six-month timeframe. It emphasizes the importance of efficient leadership skills, effective communication methods, and the influence of management on the relocation process. The report explores various communication strategies, including verbal and written communication, and highlights the role of efficient decision-making and employee motivation in ensuring a smooth transition. It also examines the impact of management on organizational structure, staffing, coordination, and control. The report concludes that effective leadership, communication, and employee engagement are crucial for the successful relocation of CU London, ensuring that all departments and employees cooperate and contribute to achieving the project's goals within the given time constraints. References to relevant literature are included to support the analysis.

Management Skills

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Efficiency of management skills.................................................................................................1
Communication methods that can help in a well and efficient communication.........................2
Influence of management in relocating process .........................................................................2
Role of Efficient decision making and motivating employees...................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
CU London has to relocate to a purpose built site and the duration they have is about six
months. So, for that, they must ensure their manageability skills so that they can avoid any
conflicting situation with the employees and various department at the time of relocating. For
this, they must have to ensure about efficient leadership skills along with different ways of
communicating information to the various departments of the institute. It is very essential to have
management skills and these involve various activities such as delegating wisely, setting the
goals, interacting well with people and other ones in the organisation, does not stop and keep
learning and achieving all the targets and goals (Rue, Byars and Ibrahim, 2012). The report is
about assessing the future leadership skills of CU London along with the communication they
have to undergo with the employees and staff regarding the move.
Efficiency of management skills
Well efficient and effective management skills can help CU London for an appropriate
relocation in a site in London in next six months. It is because when they will provide proper
training to the staff, making it a strong and much functional unit that they are capable of handling
situations on their own, it can actually help CU London to achieve these objectives and aims
within the set deadline only. Also, leadership skills will be a must because it is obvious enough
that if they have to employ some new employees for this relocation purpose, they must not be
aware of the criteria of the institution, so they must be having efficient leadership skills so that
they can manage, handle and control all employees in a way that they work in a manner that it
can help the institution in achieving all the targets and goals and that too at a huge extent. In case
of the old workers, the management should be having efficient leadership skills so that they can
motivate them about the relocation of CU London. The old workers are also there to guide them
because the already present employees of the institution are less likely to make huge errors
because they have spent a great amount of time there, made many mistakes and have learned
from them. Same is the case with the new ones. It is obvious that if the organisation employs
some new employees, they will also take some time to learn and understand their role and
responsibility so that they can focus hard on that and help the institution in getting its target
(Goetsch and Davis, 2014). When they will get sure of their roles and responsibilities, it will
automatically reduce the level of conflicts because when the people are not sure of their basic
role, it often leads to conflicts and complexities. It is because they perform what they understand
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irrespective of the fact that what is required by the institution. So, CU London can make sure to
make all the new people aware of their roles, so that it may not lead to any complex situation and
also will help CU London in efficiently relocating to a purpose built site.
Communication methods that can help in a well and efficient communication
Brian Marwell can make involvement of various communication methods so that it can
help CU London in the process of moving to nominated change members from across the
business. There are various methods of communication, which Brian Marwell can involve in
order to get effective changes while relocating such as verbal communication, non verbal, face to
face etc. It is because the role of management is very essential in achieving all changes very
effectively and appropriately as well as in maintaining all the changes very smoothly. Verbal
communication means when Brian will speak about the changes, modifications or any other
queries to the employees. This can be done over phone or from face to face. A benefit in this
type of communication is that the employee can understand half of the topic by the body
language of the manager. So, this is considered as an effective way of communicating with the
employees regarding what they have to do and what operations they have to improve upon so
that the institution can meet all its aims and objectives (Whetten and Cameron, 2014). Also,
Brian can make use of written communication as well such as if the manager wants some
processes to be changed or modified or is unhappy with the performance of some employee, in
that cases, Brian can drop a warning e-mail to the specific employee or person. Although this
type of communication does not contain any face to face etc. but is proven to be very effective
and powerful than face to face because it is silent but dangerous. Also, the management should
be efficient enough to make use of their leadership skills and also know, how to manipulate the
employees to cooperate in the process. Like this, Brian can make use of various communication
styles and methods to control the situations so that while relocating CU London, they do not face
any further issues and all the relocating processes along with the leadership and communication
goes smooth enough.
Influence of management in relocating process
Management plays a very important role in almost every feature of the organisation
(Schein, 2010). It is because as CU London has to relocate to a purpose built site and the time
duration they have is about 6 months, so they have to make a proper structure and before they
can have a proper structure,they have to ensure about the fact if they have to make any changes
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or about involving any operation as CU London is relocating, so in this, the management is
important because with the help of a proper management , a proper structure can be made such as
CU London has to plan first that how they will relocate it in a purpose built site so that all the
processing will be done within a time duration of 6 months. Then, a proper organisation is being
done by Brian in order to plan the organisation of the whole structure, means all its inside
components such as infrastructure, all required components etc. Then, a proper staffing is very
essential because a manager only can give a proper direction, it is the employees who carry
forward the processes so that the organisation can achieve all the targets and goals. It means, if a
proper and capable staff is being employed at the time of relocating CU London, their ability and
hard work can help in successful relocation process and within six months only. Then,
coordination is very important and for that, Brian can organise various sessions so that people
can interact with each other because it is very important as it helps in relaxing the mind of people
working, thus they can focus on the work better, which can prove helpful for CU London getting
relocated. The final step which is essential in management is controlling. Brian, along with other
leaders should be capable enough to control all the employees so that they work according to
their roles and help CU London in continuing the process more efficiently. They can very
efficiently explain the reasons for relocating CU London to all its members and departments
including the finance, students, purchasing and other respective departments. Also, if some
employee faces any difficulty in the relocating process, the management can make sure to
resolve it as soon as possible because if all the employees and departments will be happy with
the relocating, they can cooperate well in the process.
Role of efficient decision making and motivating employees
Maintaining the reputation of the organisation is in hands of the employees and the
authorities of the specific organisation. Also, it helps in maximising the productivity and various
new opportunities for the people working in the organisation. Furthermore, the management can
involve all the employees in decision making process such as before starting relocating, they can
organise a group meeting and discuss about the reasons and future benefits of the organisation
regarding the relocating process. This will help as the employees also consider that they are
important for the company, thus they can also think of cooperating with the institute. So, an
effective decision making is very important in the organisation to make the employees happy,
motivated and move towards the targets and goals (Zheng, Yang and McLean, 2010). It is not
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only about manipulating the employees but also motivating and encouraging them by different
means such as by means of giving some sort of increments and incentives so that they can also
stay happy and satisfied with their role.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that CU London has to relocate in a site and the time
duration they were having is about six months. For an efficient and appropriate relocating of the
institution, they make involvement of efficient leadership skills along with some communication
styles that the management can make use of for motivating as well as for motivating the
employees so that the whole process can be done effectively and smoothly.
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