Richmond School of Business: BSBWOR501 Work Priorities Project Report

This project report focuses on managing personal work priorities and professional development. It begins with research on technology and tools like Teamwork Projects, Basecamp, and BrightPod, highlighting their features and benefits for a marketing manager. The report then addresses the impact of workplace stress, identifying issues such as low morale, poor timekeeping, and health problems, and proposes strategies to mitigate these challenges, including rewards, flexible hours, and wellness activities. A planning report outlines the assistance provided by each tool and the advantages and disadvantages. A detailed weekly schedule is provided, assigning tasks, time allocations, and priorities. The project concludes with a sample email to the assessor, confirming the attachments and requesting a meeting to review the work. References support the research and findings presented in the report.

MANAGING PERSONAL WORK
PRIORITIES AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
TASK 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS.............................................................................1
2. IMPACT OF WORKPLACE STRESS AND STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING THEM.....1
3. PLANNING REPORT FOR WORK PRIORITIES....................................................................2
4. WEEKLY SCHEDULE...............................................................................................................3
5. EMAIL TO ASSESSOR..............................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

1. RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS
1. Teamwrok Projects: offers marketing manager tracking of each task form beginning till end
(Heigermoser et.al., 2019). This enhances productivity of manager through reduction of
unnecessary meeting of team.
2. Basecamp: is project management used by marketing manager software providing clarity and
simplicity in use, along with collaboration and communication.
3. BrightPod: assist marketing manager to control their projects, achieving goals, give project
overview and transparency (Kshirsagar & Konnur, 2017). It offers integration other tools,
customise workflow and prepare marketing report.
2. IMPACT OF WORKPLACE STRESS AND STRATEGIES FOR
ADDRESSING THEM
1. Low moral:
Employee loses interest in work due to work pressures, office politics and continuous
deadlines.
Strategy: regular rewards and change in work allocation system
2. Poor time keeping:
Increased pressure, imbalance in personal and professional life, health issues makes
employee lose track of time.
Strategy: lower the deadlines pressure and give space to employees to manage personal life as
well.
3. Increased ill health issues
High stress affects health of employees severely like obesity, anxiety, high blood
pressure, headaches, indigestion, insomnia and others (Binder, 2016).
Strategy: Walk, physical activities, meditation and Yoga.
4. Poor motivation:
Employees lose balance in personal and professional life, lower salaries and high work
pressure demotivates employee at workplace (Glegg, Ryce & Brownlee, 2019).
Strategy: regular rewards, regular incentives and curriculum activities at workplace.
5. High absenteeism
High pressures lead employees to take unnecessary leaves and work from home in order
to escape the workplace stress.
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Strategy: flexible working hours, allowing fixed days of work from home in a month, easy leave
approvals.
3. PLANNING REPORT FOR WORK PRIORITIES
Technology and tool
1. Teamwrok Projects
Assistance: Tracking work performance from start to end.
Avoid unwanted team meeting and saves time
Advantages Ensures harmony through perfect project overview
Allows unlimited numbers of users
Disadvantages Poor communication
Reduced flexibility
2. Basecamp
Assistance: Set up project base,
tracking of individual task
Advantages Simpler view
Auto saving feature
Disadvantages No gantt chart feature
No support other tools.
3. BrightPod
Assistance: Controlling of project
Offers web-based project management
Advantages Project Overview and Transparency
Each team member can check the tasks
Disadvantages Confusion in time allocation
Creating ambiguity in team
Impact of workplace stress Strategy to address the issue
Low moral Rewards, incentives, change in allocation
system.
Poor time keeping Motivating work life balance and easy
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deadlines
Increased ill health issues Walk, physical activities, meditation and Yoga
Poor motivation Rewards, incentives, change in allocation
system.
High absenteeism Flexible working hours, allowing fixed days of
work from home in a month, easy leave
approvals.
4. WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Day Task Time Start End Priority
Day 1, Monday
1 Checking
responses to
media enquiry
45 min 9.15 am 10 .00am Urgent
Analysis of
media data
30 min 10.00 am 10.30am Regular
Communicating
with officer
30 min 10.30 11.00 am Regular
Media releases
Preparation
45 min 11 am 11.45 pm Urgent
Tweets content
finalisation
45 min 11.45 pm 12.30 pm Regular
Analysis of
social media
accounts
1 hour 12.30 pm 1.30 pm Regular
Lunch 30 min 1.30 pm 2.00 pm
Responding to
emails
30 min 2.00 pm 2.30 pm Regular
Meeting
marketing
15 min 2.30 pm 2.45 pm
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manager
Branch
presentation
45 min 2.45 pm 3.30 pm Urgent
Tea break 15 min 3.30 pm 3.45 pm Medium
Schedule
preparation for
events
15 min 3.45 pm 4. 00 pm Medium
Monthly staff
newsletter
preparation
15min 4.00 pm 4.15pm Lower
Reviewing
communications
budget
15 min 4.15 pm 4.30 Lower
Looking up
incomplete jobs
30 min 4.30 pm 5.00 pm
Day 2,Tuesday: same as day 1
Day 3, Wednesday
Day 3 Media data
Analysis
30 min 9.00 am 9.30 am Medium
priority
Reviewing
incomplete jobs
15 min 9.30 am 9.45 am
Communication
s with officers
30 min 9.45 am 10.15 am Regular
priority
Meeting event
coordinator
45 min 10.15 11.00 am Medium
Preparation of
media releases
1 hour 11 am 12 pm Urgent
Content
providing for
30 min 12 pm 12.30 pm regular
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tweets
Responding to
media enquiry
1 hour 12.30 pm 1.30 pm Urgent
Lunch 30 min 12.30 pm 1.00 pm
Branch
presentation
45 min 1.00 pm 1.45 pm
Urgent
Repining to
emails
1 hour 1.45 pm 2.30 pm regular
Meeting
marketing
manager
15 min 3.30 pm 3.45 pm Medium
Analysis of
social media
accounts
45 min 2.45 pm 3.30 pm Regular
Tea brake 15 min 3.30 pm 3.45 pm
Events schedule
setting
15 min 3.45 pm 4. 00 pm Medium
Monthly staff
newsletter
30 min 4.00 pm 4.30pm Lower
Review
communications
budget
30 min 4.30 pm 5.00 pm Lower
Day 4, Thursday: Same schedule of day 3
Day, 5 Friday: same schedule of day 1
5. EMAIL TO ASSESSOR
To, the assessor
Subject: Confirming time and date of meeting
Sir,
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The mail has 2 attachments, work priority planning report and weekly schedule. Both are
prepared are per the given template and confirmation is required to set time and date for setting a
meeting to review the same and validate it along with stating the changes required. Please let me
know when the meeting can be set.
Thank and regard
Marketing Manager
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REFERENCES
Binder, J. (2016). Global project management: communication, collaboration and management
across borders. Routledge.
Glegg, S. M., Ryce, A., & Brownlee, K. (2019). A visual management tool for program
planning, project management and evaluation in paediatric health care. Evaluation and
program planning, 72, 16-23.
Heigermoser, D., de Soto, B. G., Abbott, E. L. S., & Chua, D. K. H. (2019). BIM-based Last
Planner System tool for improving construction project management. Automation in
Construction, 104, 246-254.
Kshirsagar, A. B., & Konnur, B. A. (2017). Earned Value Management Tool for Controlling
Project Duration and Budgeted Cost. International Journal of Engineering Technology
Science and Research 1275, 1280.
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