Comprehensive Report on Project Life Cycle, Leadership, and Management

This report provides a detailed overview of the project life cycle, encompassing initiation, planning, execution, and closure phases, highlighting the importance of stakeholder identification and strategic planning. It distinguishes between leadership and management, emphasizing vision, talent development, continuous learning, empathetic communication, and coworker bonding as crucial managerial functions. The report explores the differences between authority and responsibility, using organizational charts to illustrate levels of authority and accountability. It further discusses the significance of treating team members equally and fairly to foster a positive work environment and promote organizational growth. This comprehensive analysis aims to provide insights into effective project management and leadership practices.

Questions

Contents
The Project Life Cycle.....................................................................................................................2
Leadership vs. Management............................................................................................................4
Authority and responsibility............................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
The Project Life Cycle
Explain what the project life cycle is and describe the different stages
The project administration life cycle will termed as the high term of courses for
distributing an effective manner of task.
 Initiation – This process will require to determine organisation requirements, demands,
issues and opportunities (Hicks, and et.al., 2021). As by identifying project stakeholder it
will easy to deal with further courses of development.
 Planning – The manner of planning will relates to the arrangements and growth of
business by applying various strategies in an effective manner.

 Execution – By executing various strategies in business it will have an impact on their
functions and operations in a positive manner.
 Closure – As in this phase, they require to offer a concluding deliverables, statement of
plan resources, and identify the realisation of the plan.
Illustrate the project life cycle with a diagram
Figure 1Project management life cycle, 2021
(Source: 1 Project management life cycle, 2021)
Continuous Improvement & Flexibility, identify who will act as the project manager and
who will be the project sponsor. Explain what these people will do?
As the task manager is answerable for the regular term of functions and operations of
the task, the project sponsor look for to stimulate the task to possess it high on the basic section
(Lotz, 2021). It will also assures that the assets are capable to achieve the project and will
favours variations in the project.

Figure 2 project sponsor and project manager, 2021
Who else will be in the project team and what will they do?
The project team involves the head of project live executive and managers and the team
of workers who perform the work together in task to accomplish their goals (Vrbanić, and et.al.,
2021). It involves the project manager, project staff faculty and other candidates who you are not
directly include in organisation but will continue to perform their work in project.
When managing your project team, explain why it is important to treat everyone equally,
be fair, and not discriminate against anyone
It to promote equal set of opportunities and advances good relationship among
individuals. By treating everyone equally and fair and not discriminated in term of age, gender or
race it well help the business to grow with higher term of interest.
Leadership vs. Management
Identify the five most important things that a manager needs to do and explain why each of
these things need to be done. You may wish to give examples from your work.
 Having a Vision – By having a clear vision it will easy to create goals and objectives for
the business in terms of business growth.
 Developing Talent – An effective manager find out workers strength and weakness to
satisfy their desire and essential terms that are required in project
 Continual Learning – By following the continual manner of learning new concept of the
project that will help them to accomplish goals in projects.

 Communicating Empathetically – Effective managers have better manner of
understanding and communicating terms with their workers. Managers will listen issues
and problems of their staff and try to solve them and help them to meet their goals.
 Bonding With Co-workers – Managers have effective manner of relationship with their
workers.
Explain the differences between leadership and management
Basis for Comparison Leadership Management
Meaning Leadership is an
ability of directing and
guiding others.
Management is termed as an
art of maintaining and
collaborating new sections.
Basis Faith Controller
Describe someone in your organisation you consider to be a good leader. Give an example
to explain what makes them a good leader
An effective leader is passionate in terms of their efforts and they also follows their part
as a leader (Makras, and Anastasilakis, 2021). Individuals will answer further flexibly to a
leader of desires and commitments.
Describe someone in your organisation you consider to be a good manager. Give an
example to explain what makes them a good manager
 They create a work culture of common belief.
 They concentrates on workers strengths.
 They also have high term of methodical skills.
Which behaviours do these people inspire you to develop? Explain how these behaviours
will help your personal and career development.
 Utilising reactions as highly regularly.
 They fixed an effective objectives.
 They exercise high term of communication.
Authority and responsibility
Use an example to explain the difference between authority and
accountability/responsibility

Basis of distinction Accountability Authority
Meaning Answerable in the business
related to functions and
operations.
Right to expertise
Flow Upward flows Downward flow
Draw or find an organisational chart to show your level of authority in your organisation.
Figure 3 Organisational chart, 2021
(Source: 2 Organisational chart, 2021)
Describe the level of authority you have. Give details of the different people, resources and
budget you have authority over, and which decisions you have the authority to make.
The organisational structure have three stages like top, middle and supervisory organisation. In
an administrative arranging all managing sections is skilful and managed through managers.

Figure 4 Level of authority, 2021
Describe the level of accountability you have in your organisation. What outcomes or
objectives are you responsible for achieving?
As there are three level of accountabilities that are mentioned in below pyramid –
Figure 5 Level of accountability, 2021

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hicks, J., and et.al., 2021. Paired Multiple-Choice Questions Reveal Students’ Incomplete
Statistical Thinking about Variation during Data Analysis. Journal of Microbiology &
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Lotz, A., 2021. Unpopularity and cultural power in the age of Netflix: New questions for cultural
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Vrbanić, F., and et.al., 2021. Variable speed limit and ramp metering for mixed traffic flows: a
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Makras, P. and Anastasilakis, A.D., 2021. Questions and facts regarding denosumab
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