6 pages, 24 hrs

Cost: not to exceed 175,000

Staff: hire 15 new staff to include a manager with a salary of 45,000 per year.

Timeline: 6 months to open

Purpose: to decrease manhours lost due to soldiers traveling to move children from one daycare to another; increase mission readiness, provide shift workers with safe, secure, affordable daycare facility.

Assignment 4: Communication Strategies

Due Week 8 and worth 200 points

As project manager, you have worked diligently on this project with your team. During the tenth month, near implementation, the team begins to experience the following problems. It is now your responsibility to convince the major stakeholders that you have developed a plan to resolve these problems by developing a detailed communication strategy. This communication strategy must be persuasive enough to convince the stakeholders that you are able to properly manage the project to fruition.

Of the following five (5) situations, select three (3) and respond to each of the assignment requirements (1-5 below) before moving onto the next situation. Note: Fully respond to criterion 1 for all three (3) situations, then criterion 2 for all three (3) situations, etc., until you have fulfilled all five (5) assignment criteria listed below.

 A technical team member has requested a transfer due to project team conflicts.

 One of the project team members wants to take a week’s vacation during a major holiday season and at a time when critical project deadlines are imminent.

 Virtual team members report that they feel isolated.

 Risk assessment has not been reviewed since the beginning of the project.

 A critical path has not been explained to the project team.

Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:

1. Explain the nature of the situation and its potential impact to the project’s success.

2. Prepare a communication strategy to appropriately manage each of the four (4) situations you selected.

3. Determine how an improvement to the communication strategy may prevent similar problems in the future.

4. In the event that the communication strategy does not resolve the problem, suggest a backup plan that might be implemented.

5. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

 Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

 Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 Apply the concepts of project leadership to implement sound leadership practices, foster ethical behavior, and effectively lead high-performance teams in a project environment.

 Use technology and information resources to research issues in project management.

 Write clearly and concisely about project management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

BUS 517 – Assignments and Rubrics

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