Define and discuss ONE PERSONALLY CHALLENGING management issue

Assignment Instruction

Define and discuss ONE PERSONALLY CHALLENGING management issue, in the context of the construction industry and your future participation in it. Choose a topic that you anticipate will be most challenging to develop confident proficiency and mastery of from your own future career perspective. Use a persuasive essay format (Links to an external site.).  Discuss why this management-related topic is challenging for you personally and use hypothetical or real examples of what you would consider success and failure to help communicate your argument.

Once you have finished the essay, summarising the essay into a short video of you describing this personal challenge.

This essay is about YOU.  Write in the first-person. This assessment is about your own ability to self-reflect on your current strengths and weaknesses and discuss how these will impact your future career aspirations.  It is an opportunity to really think about yourself and your future.

Consider the inclusion of the results from any personality assessments that you completed near the beginning of the semester and how this might impact your perceptions of your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as other personality types that you might find challenging to work with in the future and why, and how you might prepare for this.

Also use your Strength Development Inventory (SDI) results – consider how your Motivational Value System and Conflict Sequence give you insights you can use today.

Provide evidence as to why your selected topic is a personal challenge.  Write and speak persuasively. Provide evidence of further research into this topic and how others have overcome this challenge.  As required, discuss relevant theories associated with this management challenge that you have discovered in your research.  Discuss your understanding of how useful these theories appear to be and how they may support or contradict your initial perceived understanding before commencing the course.

Use real-world applications/examples that may aid your argument from your own life/work experiences to date.

Essay Assessment Criteria:

In the context of self-directed learning, you must reflect on what you have learned to date in the course and how it will affect your future personal and professional career development.

Critical reflection provides coherence to your learning by relating it to what you already know, have experienced, and your plans for the future. In this reflective activity explore the assumptions underlying your beliefs and actions and show evidence of self-reflection on one of your weaknesses that you consider a challenge for your future career.