Discussion: Your Future as a Great Manager – Meeting the Challenges and Embracing the Opportunities
In this, the final week, you will look back on your work in this course and look forward to your next course in the Walden MBA program.
For this weekâ€
s discussion, Shared Practice: Your Future as a Great Manager , you will reflect on the course content and the lessons you have learned. The goal is to analyze how what you have learned will help you become a great manager. Post your initial response by Day 3 with two follow up comments to your colleagues by Day 5. Here are your discussion choices:
There are many issues that occupy your time and energy as a manager. How you address these will be part of your daily challenge and often what will distinguish you as a great manager. You undoubtedly have learned a great deal about being a manager and collaborator or team member. Your journey through this course no doubt has left you thinking about what else there is to learn. For this last discussion you will have the opportunity to explore the challenges that are typically faced by managers.
Your instructor will post a list of short issues, challenges, and opportunities that managers encounter. Some of the may be familiar to you, while others may be something you have not considered before. Your job is to select one that resonates with you or that you want to explore. Then, do some research, using credible resources.
Important Note – You must cite at least two credible resources to support your original post.
The objective of this discussion is to learn more about many of these topics, so the more you engage with your colleagues the better. Remember that your future as a good great manager relies on your ability to learn and grow your knowledge and skills!
By Day 3
Post a cohesive response to the following:
- Identify the challenge, issue, or opportunity that you selected and explain why that is of particular interest to you.
- Analyze how the challenge, issue, or opportunity impacts (or may impact) a manager. Provide examples from your experience, observations, or research.
- Evaluate the types of actions that managers can take when these challenges, issues, or opportunities arise or when they encounter them. In what ways might these actions differ depending on the organization or industry?
- Explain why learning more about how managers address challenges, issues, and opportunities is important to your future and how you will continue to build your skill set so that you are a great manager.
- Keeping up with the Changing Workforce: The nature of work is changing, and managers will likely encounter the challenges of managing in the alternative workforce economy where work is performed by outsourced teams, contractors, freelancers, or “gig†workers. This trend is likely to continue and it is important that managers develop the ability to be effective in managing workers who are not full-time employees and may even work at many other organizations or have other side hustles as they are called. For your discussion this week, you are required to do some research in the Walden library or find other credible resources to discover the major challenges and strategies managers can use when faced a managing workforce. Use (and cite) at least two resources and consider your own experiences to develop your original post.
- Acting Your Age?: As a manager, you will need to navigate the challenges of managing a multigenerational workforce. If you look around your current organization or one in which you are familiar, the chances are you will see a workforce comprised of individuals at different levels from different generations, each bringing not only individual differences, but also some that come from the generation from which they are a part. For your discussion this week, you are required to do some research in the Walden library or find other credible resources to discover the major challenges and strategies managers can use when faced a multigenerational workforce. Use (and cite) at least two resources and consider your own experiences to develop your original post.
- Keep Calm and Manage: There is no doubt that at some point, every manager will face a crisis situation that can have significant impact to the organization, the employees, and potentially beyond. No matter how well you plan, things will inevitably go wrong. How managers react in these situations can plan a big role in their success. For your discussion this week, you are required to do some research in the Walden library or find other credible resources to discover the major challenges and strategies managers can use when faced with a crisis. Use (and cite) at least two resources and consider your own experiences to develop your original post.
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