BUSM4615: Action Plan for Managing Project Teams - RMIT

This document presents an action plan created by a student for the BUSM4615 course, focusing on the management of project teams. The action plan outlines five personal goals aimed at improving the student's skills and effectiveness in a project management context. These goals include enhancing flexibility towards changes, developing problem-solving skills, assisting others in making ethical decisions, providing motivation to team members, and improving stress management. For each goal, the plan details target knowledge, skills, and attitudes, along with development activities, potential sources of help, and target completion dates. The student plans to use reflective journals, Mind Maps, SWOT analysis, and stress management sessions to achieve their goals, seeking assistance from team members and supervisors where needed. The plan emphasizes the importance of recognizing team members' contributions, setting clear goals, and fostering collaboration to enhance team performance and individual well-being. The overall objective is to improve leadership and project management capabilities through a structured approach to personal development.

BUSM4615: Managing Project Teams
Assessment Three
Managing Project Teams Action Plan
Personal Goal 1: improve flexibility towards changes
Target
knowledge/skills/attitudes to Proof Development activities Potential Help Target date
develop
What specific actions must I
take to
How will I know I have
done it?
What activities can I do to
build my
Who might help
me When will I
improve?
target
knowledge/skills/attitudes?
with my
development?
complete
this?
To improve my flexibility towards
changes I will reflect on my actions
and decisions which I take.
Having record of my
observations and reflections, I
will be able to successfully
encounter any future changes in
the organisation.
To accomplish this area of
weakness, I will maintain a
reflective journal or log book.
The entries will help to build on
areas where I lack and will record of
my learning experiences. Thus, I
will be able to reflect upon my
observations and responses towards
situations and analyse my ways of
thinking.
To accomplish these
actions, I must seek
assistance from my
team mates and
supervisor.
My supervisor will
help me to identify
progress and evaluate
my performance.
2-3 weeks
Personal Goal 2: Develop problem solving skills
Target
knowledge/skills/attitudes to Proof Development activities Potential Help Target date
develop
What specific actions must I
take to
How will I know I have
done it?
What activities can I do to
build my
Who might help
me When will I
improve?
target
knowledge/skills/attitudes?
with my
development?
complete
this?
I must identify issues and focus on The successful strategies of I will use Mind Maps to evaluate I will seek help from 2-4 weeks

monitoring and evaluating areas of
issues to develop my problem
solving skills.
I should also comprehend others’
interests and list possible solutions.
Mind Map will help me to the
identify areas and successfully
resolve problems with utmost
efficiency.
areas of problems and its probable
solutions. Through this exercise, I
will be able to identify which
“branch” or option is the most
concrete, time-saving, and cost-
effective problem solving
techniques.
my team associates, to
perform this activity.
Personal Goal 3: Assisting others in making ethical decisions
Target
knowledge/skills/attitudes to Proof Development activities Potential Help Target date
develop
What specific actions must I
take to
How will I know I have
done it?
What activities can I do to
build my
Who might help
me When will I
improve?
target
knowledge/skills/attitudes?
with my
development?
complete
this?
To improve my area of assisting
others in making ethical decisions, I
must consider how my actions will
impact others.
In addition to this, I must reflect
prior to take any decisions for the
team.
The SWOT Analysis will help
me to distinguish relations
between strength and
opportunities, and weakness
and threats to understand the
degree of impact of my
decisions on others.
Consequently, I will be able to
assist others in making
constructive decisions.
I must use SWOT analysis, to serve
as a reference point for prospective
decisions. While approaching a
decision, I will conduct SWOT
analysis and look for connections
between strengths and opportunities
and weaknesses and threats.
If there are strong relations between
strengths and opportunities, it is a
upright sign that I should proceed.
To perform this
activity, I will seek
help from my
supervisor. 3-5 weeks
Personal Goal 4: providing motivation to contemporaries
Target
knowledge/skills/attitudes to Proof Development activities Potential Help Target date
develop
What specific actions must I How will I know I have What activities can I do to Who might help When will I

take to done it? build my me
improve?
target
knowledge/skills/attitudes?
with my
development?
complete
this?
I must develop my area of providing
motivation to contemporaries and
subordinates to work.
At this juncture I must recognise
their effort and highlight their
important contribution towards the
project and the organisation as a
whole.
Successful establishment of
clear goals and purposes will
help me to identify members of
the member who require
enthusiasm and motivation to
put efforts into their work.
By recognising their work, I
will be able to successfully
increase their enthusiasm level
and advance them towards path
of success.
I must provide incentives and foster
collaboration within the team and
encourage happiness. Also I will set
distinctive goals and purposes to
each member of the team and Offer
opportunities for self-development.
I will seek assistance
from my supervisor,
who will be able to
suggest me right type
of incentives and ways
to foster collaboration
within the team. 3-4 months
Personal Goal- 5 enhance my areas of pressure and stress
Target
knowledge/skills/attitudes to Proof Development activities Potential Help Target date
develop
What specific actions must I
take to
How will I know I have
done it?
What activities can I do to
build my
Who might help
me When will I
improve?
target
knowledge/skills/attitudes?
with my
development?
complete
this?
In order to enhance my areas of
pressure and stress, as a potential
project manager, I will try some
effective relaxation techniques.
Successfully conducting stress
management sessions will help
to effectively deal with my
stress as well as management
levels. The sessions will offer
me techniques of identifying
areas which will give me
utmost stress and will help me
to combat them at the right
time.
To improve stress and high anxiety
level, I will take stress management
sessions. Also I will keep a journal
for a month or two to identify
situations which tend to create
highest level of stress and effective
ways to respond to them.
To perform these
activities, I will seek
help from my peers
with whom I can
openly converse about
these areas of my
weaknesses and who
will be able to evaluate
my progress.
4-5 months