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Hello, I'm Sagar Pradhan. I aspire to become an HR Manager with a strong passion for organizational development and leadership. My goal is to contribute to building high-performing teams and fostering a positive work culture. Welcome to my e-portfolio, where I showcase my skills, experiences, and dedication to achieving my career goal.

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week 3(Document cultural barriers and career impact).

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week 3(Document cultural barriers and career impact).

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Based on cultural factors in communication; thus, the language barrier, understanding of nonverbal gestures, and contrasting approaches towards the officials’ subordinate rank all relate to a career issue greatly. For example, indirectness that is characteristic of Japanese culture can easily mislead people who prefer direct approach; different attitude toward eye contact can negatively affect interpersonal contact in multicultural environment. Likely, difficulties can also be observed in relation to those subordinated employees coming from egalitarian cultures who directly confront the authorities in hierarchical organizations. If ignored or unresolved, those barriers may result into misunderstandings, conflict and in essence the relationship is strained. To overcome them, cultural sensitivity, listening, and promoting multiculturalism in order to encourage cooperation, restore trust and advance one’s opportunities in any given career field.

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week 4 (verbal and non-verbal communication skills).

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week 4 (verbal and non-verbal communication skills).

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Training includes one on one interview skills and these involves working on ones ability to use or improve on the verbal and non verbal communication skills. Speaking voice and organized language can be improved by using the STAR technique of approaching common behavioral questions. Therefore, how a respondent of an interview reacts, gestured, whether he or she makes eye contact and the tone of voice requite confidence and engagement. Daily interviews help know potential flaws, for example, nervous mannerisms or unclear language during the conversation. Reviewing each practice session is also possible enabling a candidate to improve his or her interviews performance and gain better communication skills during actual job interviews.

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week 5 ( conflict management strategies)

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week 5 ( conflict management strategies)

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Collaboration, compromise and accommodation are the common conflict solving techniques is important when it comes to dealing with other professionals at the workplace. For instance, agreement entails compromise that benefits all concerned, for instance when individuals in a team come up with a way of handling conflicting ideas on projects. Concession may used where two persons agree to surrender an important point because of getting another important point they want from the other person, for instance, setting of dates. In accommodation, one has to give in to the other, for instance, following a supervisor’s decision on how to allocate the limited resources. The use of these strategies aid in successful conflict resolution preventing disruption of team cohesiveness.

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key client projects reporting to the Project Team Leader for supervision, coordination and monitoring of timely delivery of the project. Duties involve coordinating the calendar; assigning work; enhancing team, ways of working; and ensuring client satisfaction. The role entails forging in motivation of the team and rallying the team to achieve goal and objectives of the company. Behavioural and situational questions in interviews will be aimed at evaluating hard and soft skills of the candidates, their experiential learning and past experiences together with an ability to solve various problems.

Sample questions and answers include:

Tackling complex projects: This previously required the division of a task into ones which can be accomplished in concrete steps, the incorporation of agile methodologies and check-ins with the problem being solved before it becomes a significant concern.

Time management: Setting an urgent-priority list which can be done with the help of such techniques as the Eisenhower Matrix and a Gantt chart.

Motivating the team: Encouraging the free flow of information, ensuring that people are appreciated for their work, and convening meetings to increase employees’ esprit de corps.

Attracting clients: Subscribing to knowledge about clients and using interpersonal media, such as Slack, to communicate with them.

Addressing project delays: Defining causes, to redirect or rebalance resources and to inform clients new time frames.

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week 7  cover letter, receive peer feedback, and refine it.

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week 8 ( teamwork and leadership insights)

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week 8 ( teamwork and leadership insights)

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Week 9 (International Project Mnagement Plan: Team Reflection)

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Week 9 (International Project Mnagement Plan: Team Reflection)

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Team Members' Roles and Responsibilities:

Sagar (My Role):

Responsibilities: Project co-ordination, conducting a preliminarily market analysis, writing the final report.

Tasks: Gathering market information, finding and evaluating sources, and making sure the final report meets all goals and scheduled times.

Kiran:

Responsibilities: As a subheading to project management, these include project planning and resource management with a focus on resources required to complete the project.

Tasks: Understanding how long a project will take when it is in the planning stage and making a schedule of work assignments through project management tools in order to guarantee timely completion of the work.

Navneet:

Responsibilities: Preliminary and final design presentation and or client consultation.

Tasks: Designing and developing project presentation using PowerPoint slides, involved in the interaction with the client to determine the projects requirements and responses from the other party.

Collaboration Strategies:

1.     Clear Communication Channels:

While for the short term all members’ interactions we employed elements of workplace communication software, namely Slack for the team’s discussions and Google Docs for cooperation in writing tasks. Having a central platform make sure all the team personnel were in par.

2.     Regular Meetings:

Traditional video conferences were held once a week on Zoom to discuss progress, potential/novel challenges during the implementation of change management strategies, and the revision of timelines. It made sure that people would have the chance to express their grievances and opinions to come forward.

3.     Task Management:

To share the divided tasks the team chose Trello which allowed to assign deadlines and to see the performance of each team member. This was useful in ensuring that accountability and transparency are achieved to a great extent.

4.     Feedback and Review:

Persions were exercised whereby members gave critiques of each other’s assignments. This enabled us to enhance the quality of the project on the successive phase.

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Challenges Faced and How They Were Addressed:

1.     Miscommunication about Task Ownership:

At the beginning of the identification of tasks, some unclear issues appeared regarding assignation of the tasks, particularly when the same roles are involved. We were able to manage this in three ways, first, by including a section in the shared project document to outline who is to do what, and the second was to follow up on the document to confirm that everyone is on the same page.

2.     Time Zone Differences:

Some team members were in different time zones and this caused a lot of issues with concerning time management. To cater for this, we resorted to using Doodle Polls in order to determine the convenient time to have a meeting with everyone, and flexibly altered the working hours.

3.     Delays in Research Completion:

one of the member raised difficulties in completing the research on time due to some other business. In this regard, we were able to redistribute some tasks while shifting the time line on those parts that might not be so crucial to achieve core objectives.

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Meeting Title: Team Strategy and Quarterly Planning
Date: November 16, 2024
Facilitator: Sangam Gurung
Note-Taker: Naresh Bist

Agenda:

Welcome and Objectives (10 mins): Welcome and achieving objectives and objectives.

Review of Previous Outcomes (15 mins): Updates to prior quarter’s objectives, inactive activities.

Current Challenges (20 mins): Problems? Suggestions?.

Planning for Next Quarter (25 mins): Set goals, assign tasks.

Brainstorming Innovations (15 mins): Share ideas for improvement.

Action Items & Deadlines (10 mins): Resume of work and duty.

Wrap-Up (5 mins): I always sum up the meeting and also remind participants of the date and venue of the next meeting.

Expected Outcomes:

Get clarity on what went well and what did not go well in the last quarter.

Explained the goals in clear terms and provided measures that can be taken.

It indicates clearly understanding of tasks and their due dates.

Meeting Notes

Key Points:

Progress: 80% goals achieved; pending tasks include staff training and IT upgrades.

Challenges:

Supply chain delays → Solution: Backup supplier and better tracking.

Reduced productivity → Solution: Wellness initiatives, flexible work.

Goals for Next Quarter:

Launch marketing campaign (Jan 10, 2025).

Staff training (Dec 20, 2024).

IT upgrades (Feb 2025).

Action Items:

Finalize supplier agreements (Nov 25, 2024).

Develop wellness program (Dec 5, 2024).

Plan workshops (Dec 10, 2024).

Decisions:

Selection of approved backup supplier plan.

Focused on the health and lifestyle enhancement activities and seminars.

Poor project completion dates for major programs.

Next Meeting: Thursday, the 15 th of January 2025, at 10:00 AM.

Methods for Manageable Conferences

Clear Objectives: In order to help in managing such discussions, they are defined at the beginning of the Delphi study.

Assigning Roles: Deliverables which are assigned with deadlines for responsibility.

Follow-Up Actions: Updates to be discussed in the following session.

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Draft Newsletter Article: Effective Team Leadership

Introduction

Team leadership is a critical determinant of organizational performance, working output, employees’ job satisfaction, and organizational results. By focusing on organisiational development and human behaviour, leaders may effectively facilitate their teams and organisations to overcome various difficulties, work in synergy, and provide timely outcomes of all the challenges. As organizations grow, the basics of leadership become relevant more than ever in an effort to manage increasingly complicated workplaces. In this article, we review key leadership categories, approaches, and a method of how exactly they encourage exceptional employee groups.

Main Content

The Unique Features of Leadership

Some of the common behavioral competencies include; emotional intelligence, flexibility, communication among others. Flour: Self-awareness specifically and empathy in general help a leader respond well to the group processes that are at work Flexibility enables the leader work on different plans of action depending on the circumstances while petty communication defines expectations and increases reliable relationships among people in the team (Goleman, 1995)

Leadership For Teams

1. Setting a Clear Vision and Goals:

Culture is the way things are done; direction focuses on where things are done. The leaders should sit down with their subordinates in order to create realistic objectives which should be in par with the organizational goals. Various studies have indicated that where people have clear and proper goals then motivation is increased and group unity is improved (Locke, 2002)

2. Fostering Collaboration and Inclusivity:

Promoting free- for -all channel of communication, and embracing diversity enhance group cohesiveness. Leaders make sure that nobody’s ideas need to be silenced or ignored because these environments enhance creativity or innovation (Edmondson, 1999)

3. Empowering Team Members:

Empowerment involves labelling, accessing, controlling and mobilising in a team where delegation and trust are crucial. The employees that are assigned to choose tasks they are most proficient in and the leaders who offer work discretion note higher levels of motivation and performance. According to Kouzes and Posner on the use of team members’ strengths, managers need to identify them before they can apply them (Kouzes, 2017)

4. Providing Constructive Feedback:

The positive criticism of either an individual or a group positively ensures development. Supervisors must concentrate on being more prescriptive with their recommendations while being more positive in their language. It is helpful to implementing regular feedback cycles and it also comes out strongly that establishing feedback on a cyclical basis can foster accountability.

Challenges in Team Leadership

For instance, leaders are apt to face issues such as conflict, difference in personality, technology among others. Solving these involves aspects of strategic management and interactional ability. For example, conflict management training helps leaders in organizations learn how to handle conflict within organisations efficiently (Thomas, 1992)

Conclusion

Leadership in teams is very sensitive and deals with the use of several activities, skills, and approaches in trying to coordinate a group of people. In this paper I found that outlining goals, maintaining group diversity, encouraging individuals and offering feedback are some of the ways in which leaders can kindle collaborative and innovative climates. These principles are therefore important as organisations adapt and align to their new workplace environments so as to keep employees responsive and motivated.

References

Edmondson, A. (. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams.

Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. Bantam Books.

Kouzes, J. M. (2017). The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations. Jossey-Bass.

Locke, E. A. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation. American Psychologist,, 705-717.

Thomas, K. W. (1992). Conflict and conflict management. Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology , 651-717.

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Week 13: An analysis of communication tools in Human resource management.

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Week 13: An analysis of communication tools in Human resource management.

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The both tools help HR professionals to improve the communication and productivity of the teams. Here's how some tools are utilized:

LinkedIn:

Purpose: Employed for purposes of connection, targeted talent acquisition, and presentations of personal profiles.

Example: For example, as an HR manager, it is possible to write-compelling job announcements and use LinkedIn Recruiter. Indeed, it offers an opportunity to establish contacts with others in the industry.

Slack:

Purpose: A communication application that might help to keep everything well organized.

Example: It may create team work channels, new HR announcements channel or, even personal to personal messaging channel. It is beneficial for its integrations (e.g., polls for employees’ engagement) increase productivity.

BambooHR:

Purpose: Developed for use by human resource department, it can help with the tasks such as employee onboarding process, performance review and keeping track of employees records among others.

Example: Due to its flexibility, you can set up recurring tasks such as notifications for the next performance review session reminder or even use a particular process to poll employees.

In rolling the tools by mastering the key ones, the HR professionals will be able to improve the solidarity among the team, increase transparency as well as ascertain operational efficiency.

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Week 14 & 15: Wrapping up the Growth and Readiness for an HR careerReflecting on this journey.

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Week 14 & 15: Wrapping up the Growth and Readiness for an HR careerReflecting on this journey.

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I’ve achieved significant personal and professional growth:

Milestones Achieved:

Skill Development: Enhanced oral presentation and gesture mimicry exercise in behemoth interviews.

Conflict Resolution: How to attend meetings and disputes professionally: Applying learned techniques such as mediation and active listening.

E-Portfolio: Assembled a portfolio of kinds of applications (resume, cover letter, samples) that present my competency and availability.

Challenges Overcome:

Cultural Barriers: Developed an understanding of the peculiarities of the forms of useful interaction and non-discrimination in a multicultural environment.

Technical Gaps: Explained the gaps between novice and expert employee uses of HR software tools such as BambooHR and LinkedIn Recruiter.

Career Readiness:

Since identifying areas of strength and weakness, and linking goals to plans, I have faith in the outcome to secure an HR manager position. The strengths of my e-portfolio are evident via my passion for leadership, and personal/professional flexibility, as well as constant learning.