Unit 6 Project: Talent Strategies for Attracting and Retaining People

This project focuses on talent strategies for attracting and retaining employees within a business context, specifically referencing Unilever Plc. The project encompasses planning, execution, monitoring, and completion phases, emphasizing the importance of training and development. Key milestones include project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and completion. The project logbook details the progress, risks, encountered problems, and lessons learned, highlighting the significance of communication and teamwork. A performance review assesses the effectiveness of the training program and identifies areas for future improvement. A business case presentation summarizes the project's objectives and outcomes. This project is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of talent management within successful business projects.

Learner Name ID
Programme Name Pearson BTEC Higher
National Diploma in
Business Management
Unit Number and Title Unit 6 – Managing
Successful Business
Project
Project Title
E- Portfolio: What
talent strategies do
the best companies
use to attract and
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Table of Contents
E – Portfolio: What talent strategies do the best companies use to
attract and retain people?
1 – Project planning p
2 – Project Logbook p
3 – Performance Review p
4 – Business Case Presentation p
References p
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E – Portfolio: Talent strategies to attract and retain people?
1 – Project planning
Scope:
This project is related to training and development and in order to get success for
this project, a person needs to consider different activities and tasks (Calimag, 2021) .
These activities and task to be consider by managers of company in Unilever Plc is
mentioned below:
 Planning is one of important activities which is to be consider by managers of
company in order to initiate a project.
 Organising that whole project is important which allow them to complete
things in effective manner.
 Supervision is also required to complete a project as in this, a person needs
to supervise other people in order to identify mistakes and their ways of doing
things.
 Monitoring is also an activity which allow a person to monitoring and analyse
their mistakes (Cantrell, 2021).
 Control is also an important activity that helps to managers of company to
correct them in order to complete work in effective manner.
Milestones:
A project require mainly 5 phases for completing and managing a project in effective
manner. These phases in context of Unilever Plc is mentioned below:
Project initiation: It is a phase in which managers of Unilever plc is making decision
for training and development event for employees (Di Silvestro and Nadir, 2021). For
this, they are developing goals and defining it to members of team.
Project planning: In this step, managers are preparing road map in which they
decide different types of things for this project. They are identifying requirement,
schedule of project, communication plan and delivering of goals.
Project execution: it is another stage in which actual work is executed In this
experts are providing training to employees by analysing and monitoring their work.
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Monitoring and Control: In this stage, managers of Unilever Plc are monitoring
project and controlling if there is different in goals and actual performance by
identifying causes of differences (Dobiasch and Oppl, 2021).
Completion: It is the last stage of project completion in which project is fully
delivered and feedback is taken from employees for their training in order to take
corrective action for future.
Initiation, planning and execution: Details of activities to be carried
in the project
In this, managers of Unilever Plc will communicate with employees which helps them
to understand where problems are faced by employees for completion of work in
effective manner.
In order to overcome of these problems, managers of company needs to provide
them training and development (Robbrecht, Embo and Van Winckel, 2021). For this,
managers of company needs to provide them new ways of doing things effectively
that improve their efficiency of doing work.
In next step, they needs to assess improvement among employees which is
important for them to understand where they needs to work.
Gantt chart: Work break down structure using to track the activities
to be undertaken
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2 – Project Logbook
Project Logbook
Name:
Project title: Training and Development
Date: 23 December 2021
Update on period of development
In this project conducted at Unilever, proper training and development opportunity
is provided to employee which improve their efficiency and also their skills. It is
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aimed to develop new skills among employees which is important for improving
their productivity (Silvius, 2017). It allow managers of company to be prepare for
employees to use new technology introduced in their organisation for purpose of
improvement of their production capability. But this project is completed as it is
planned as employees are ready to learn new things. This project is planned for
10 days which is completed on deadline of project. There is no requirement for
making changes in project.
Risks and/or issues identified
There are various risk associated with this project as if managers are unable to
communicate with employees in right manner, it can create problems for them as
employees can go against them and can go for strike. It can create negative
impact over productivity of company. It require proper communication and team
working skills of completion of this project.
Problems encountered
There are various challenges occur in path of completion of this project. These
challenges are related to coordination among team members, their ways of
reacting towards this project, communication and many more. In order to
overcome of these challenges, managers of project needs to adopt effective
leadership which allow them to influence behaviour of other people. They can also
adopt motivation which assist them creating willingness among them.
New ideas and change of project direction
In order to execute these ideas in organisation and implementing this project in
company, managers needs to address risk present in that project. There are
different types of risk present in a project like technology, cost, scope creep,
communication risk and others. Direction of managers can change ways of
working in organisation as it create significant impact of employees and other
team members. These changes can be occur in leadership, motivation and other
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thing of a person. Before this, managers are providing basic training to employees
but changes has made in their direction in which they are carefully analysing work
of an employees and correcting it in order to improve their efficiency.
What have you learned about yourself through your work?
In this, I have learned various new things which is important for me in order to
develop new skill. In this, I leaned new ways of leadership and motivation which is
important for a person. I also learn about how to deal with a team and coordinate
with their efforts. These learning will also helps me in future period of time in order
to handle a project in more efficient manner. While dealing with these situation, I
feel motivated to get success for this project. But while facing challenges, I get
demotivated but my seniors provide me support them make me improve my
performance and provide me success in this project.
Next steps for your work
In completion of this work, I prioritise work that are related to success of project
instead of my personal work. I also focus on urgent and important work which
allow me complete work on time. It allow me to saves time for completion of work
on time.
Project plan status to date
I feel that I was able to complete this work on time which provide me
success. Before starting this work, I made a schedule for completion of
work. With following all these things, I am able to complete this project on
time. Completion of small pre decided activities on time provide me success
for this project.
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Tutor Feedback
3 – Performance Review
Performance Review
aim to achieve through work
I aim to achieve providing effective training and development opportunity to
employees which improve their work efficiency.
Achieving your aims
Yes, my work attain success of my aims and I get to know this by viewing
performance of employees. In order to assess their performance, we measure
time for producing a unit in compare to time after training for producing a unit.
Aspects of development process
There are different aspects of my development process worked well as I get to
learn new things. Different components of project includes initial research,
development process, presentation and other things.
Problems emerged during the project
During this project, problems are occur related to communication, coordination,
technology risk and others things. These problems are identified on timely basis
which can be resolve by me on time that reduce negative impact of it on project.
learn from the project
There are different types of things which is to be identified by me in completion of
this project. I have learn how to manage a team and project, how to communicate
with different members of team in order to influence them for completion of
project.
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strengths and weaknesses of process
Strength of this process is my knowledge of handling of project and key skills
Weakness of this project is lack of experience of doing this type of work.
Improvement in future
These can be improved in future by learning required skill for this project. I also
needs to improve my ways of doing things and reacting to a specific thing.
4 – Business Case Presentation
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References
Calimag, M.M.P., 2021. The ePortfolio: Technology-Enhanced Authentic Assessment in the
Continuum of Medical Education. In Handbook of Research on Determining the
Reliability of Online Assessment and Distance Learning (pp. 149-170). IGI Global.
Cantrell, A., 2021. The Progression From My ePortfolio To My Writing Major.
Di Silvestro, F. and Nadir, H., 2021. The power of ePortfolio development to foster reflective
and deeper learning in an online graduate adult education program. Adult
Learning, 32(4), pp.154-164.
Dobiasch, M. and Oppl, S., 2021. Usage Patterns of an ePortfolio-Platform-On the Potential
Conflict between Short-and Long-term Usage Scenarios of ePortfolios.
Robbrecht, M., Embo, M. and Van Winckel, M., 2021. Workplace-based Learning and
ePortfolio Use in Post-graduate Medical Education in Flanders (Belgium): What Are
The Perceived Needs?. In INTED2021 Proceedings (pp. 7606-7606). IATED.
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