Assignment:
Create a final report for your manager reflecting on the experience working with the client, the simulations, and the other assessments you have worked through in the MBA program by doing the following:
1. Discuss five lessons learned from the simulations and other assessments that helped you resolve your client's problem.
? Patience - different management styles, conflicting personalities, may take a while to get information
? Flexible (with scheduling) - Started late a few times, rescheduled. proposed changes to scope
? Under Promise and Over-deliver
? Speak to all cross impacted parties - Fills in gaps, everybody is involved, open communication.
2. Develop three SMART long-term professional goals.
? To Increase the Utilization of Performance Metrics
? use performance metrics to determine an employee's productivity and overall effectiveness.
? numerically measure customer satisfaction, organizational performance,and cost management.
? Measure metrics daily or weekly.
? Cut Costs
? Cutting costs is another method of increasing profitability for entrepreneurs. To achieve this goal, the entrepreneur may find a different supplier or decrease portions. As with increasing sales, the entrepreneur should determine a realistic number and a timeline.
Increased Responsibility
? Higher executive position
? Ability to make more impactful decisions
? Create overarching technical strategy for a company
3. Reflect on how the lessons you learned during your MBA training at WGU support your professional goals.
? Details in report provide much needed information to company leadership
? Mastering many domains of business bring a complete understanding of the management process
? Always maintain calls with your mentor- they usually clarify instructions well and provide motivation. Good so you know the timing for the semester (how much time is left in the semester or when to finish a class by)
? Every big task is a bunch of smaller steps