Weekly Portfolio: Leadership Learning Table Analysis & Reflection

This homework assignment is a weekly portfolio entry that analyzes project conflicts from a leadership perspective. It delves into the application of persuasion, logic, and ethical considerations in managing conflicts and stakeholder issues. The assignment explores various methods of negotiation, conflict management, and stakeholder engagement, including the use of negotiation analysis, attitude-based strategic negotiation, distributive and integrative negotiation techniques, and methods for identifying and reconciling conflicting objectives. It also examines the consequences of project delays and changes to planned activities, emphasizing the importance of strict project schedule and scope control. Finally, the portfolio evaluates project management tools for conflict resolution, such as avoiding, competing, compromising, and collaboration, drawing on readings, assignments, and prior unit learning to support the reflections and analysis.

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Weekly Portfolio Learning Table
Description of
topics including
reading samples
Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
Week 11 Topic:
Argument; Logic;
Ethics.
The Internet
Encyclopedia of
Philosophy;
Emotional
Intelligence;
QLD Government
negotiation advice;
YouTube: Popular
Videos – Negotiation;
2. Analyse common
arguments using
logic, persuasion and
influence factors as
commonly applied to
conflicting and/or
competing
stakeholder agendas.
Persuasion is a powerful tool for managing conflicts and dealing with
stakeholder issues; it creates trust and lets the other party look at the issue
from a different perspective. This increases the chances of them adopting your
point of view or coming into a compromise. People naturally have prejudices
and are conditioned to bargain for their own benefit; but through persuasion,
such barriers can be unlocked, especially when one party creates the concept of
unity of purpose. It leads to a win-win situation where all parties feel that they
are the winners. Persuasion removes hard positions and makes all parties eager
to participate more constructively. In negotiation, the process must be
structured; this implies that governance plays an important role in guiding
negotiation and helps it from breaking down into an argument (Krause et al.,
2016)
Approaches such as
persuasion can be used
with other techniques,
such as collaboration for
better outcomes in
resolving project
conflicts
Are any of the
activities above
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
3. Differentiate
methods of project
negotiation, conflict
management, and
stakeholder
engagement across
Methods include the negotiation analysis approach which offers a systematic
and logical well founded approach to negotiation
Attitude based strategic negotiation takes psychological factors into account
during negotiation.
Use of the International Project Management Association negotiation process
steps
Distributive negotiation where fixed resources amounts are divided between all
The negotiation model
used depends on
circumstances, but
should aim at reaching
the best alternative to a
negotiated agreement
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Description of
topics including
reading samples
Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
projects consisting of
differing technology
standards and asset
lifecycles.
parties
Integrative negotiation where mutual techniques for problem solving are used
to enlarge assets that are then divided between the parties involved (Semeniuk,
2010)
Are any of the
activities above
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
4. Explain and apply
methods of
identifying and
reconciling
inconsistent and
conflicting objectives
and drivers that
develop, maintain,
mange relationships
and communication
with key
stakeholders.
Confronting which is an integrative win-win style for resolving differences
Compromising; this is a give and take approach to resolving conflict
Smoothing is an accommodating approach to resolving conflict
Forcing is a method where control is used to compel another party to agree
The method used
depends on the
circumstances and the
stakes involved, as well
as the desired objectives
and outcomes of the
project
Are any of the
activities above
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
5. Explain the
consequences of
project delays,
disruptions, and
changes to planned
activities and the
methods for claims
variations, liquidated
damages, contract
entitlements, and
arbitration.
Project delays almost invariably lead to increased costs and changes in project
scope that in themselves can lead to legal litigation and extended conflicts. They
raise project costs and greatly compromise on the project objectives being met
(Mukuka, Aigbavboa and Thwala, 2015)
To avoid project delays,
there should be a strict
control of the project
schedule and scope
Are any of the
activities above
6. Evaluate project The major tools that are useful in managing and handling conflicts in projects
include;
Have you any insights
you can add from other
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topics including
reading samples
Learning
outcomes of the
unit
Learnings from your experience, this and prior unit
reading, assignments
Supporting
documentation
including your
prior learning
relevant to your
reflections for the
learning outcomes
on the right?
management tools
that help avoid or
provide conflict
resolution via
negotiated solutions.
Avoiding- requires a failure to satisfy or raise issues for the sake of project
progress
Competing- Requires one to be uncooperative and become assertive to get their
interests bent to
Compromising- A method of give and take in which both parties strive to reach a
conjecture
Collaboration- A method In which aspects of cooperation are intermingled with
assertiveness to reach a solution (Pinto and Kharbanda, 2015)
units you have studies or
readings you’ve made?
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References
Anbari, F. T. (2005). The Chunnel project. [Newtown Square, Pa.], Project Management Institute.
Kerzner, H. (2013). Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. 11th ed. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.
Krause, A., Meyers, C., Irlbeck, E. and Chambers, T. (2016). What Side Are You On? An Examination of the Persuasive Message Factors in Proposition 37
Videos on YouTube. Journal of Applied Communications, 100(3).
Mukuka M., Aigbavboa C., & Thwala W. (2015). Effects of Construction Projects Schedule Overruns: A Case of the Gauteng Province, South Africa.
Procedia Manufacturing. 3, 1690-1695.
Peña-Mora F., and Tamaki T. 2001. "Effect of Delivery Systems on Collaborative Negotiations for Large -Scale Infrastructure Projects”. Journal of
Management in Engineering. Vol:April 2001 pp.105-121
PMI. (2013a). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) 5th Edition. USA: Project Management Institute.
Pinto, J. and Kharbanda, O. (2015). Project Management and Conflict Resolution. [online] Pmi.org. Available at:
https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/project-management-organizational-conflict-resolution-2035 [Accessed 25 May 2018].
Semeniuk, M. (2010). Techniques For Managing Conflicting Expectations. [online] Pmi.org. Available at: https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/managing-
conflicting-expectations-6893 [Accessed 25 May 2018].
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