Faculty of Business, Health & Technology

Program: Advanced project management and strategic leadership

Course Number EPM 2102

Section Number

Course Title Monitoring and controlling project resources

Semester/Year 2ND / 1ST

Instructor Paul Wang

ASSIGNMENT No. 2

Assignment Title Change management

Submission Date 07-05-2018

Due Date 07-05-2018

Student Name Satnam Singh

Student ID C0730449
 PERSONAL LIFE CHANGES
As it is natural psychological and physiological reaction human of to resist the change because

do something from comfort zone for first it looks very hard. However, it required an only

determination for achieving your objective and courage to bring the change for betterment.

Talking about major changes in my life, the recent major change in life is live alone in Canada

miles away from family. For me, family comes first place. I always look upon them to bring

happiness in their life. As my father passed away in 2003, Since my mother manages to give

me the opportunity for value education and inculcate the rich values of life. While living with

family, I just had to focus on my education and career and the rest of thing were managed by

my mom like food, financial problems, etc. Second major changes are in language, as I’m not

familiar with English that makes me uncomfortable while speaking and communicating with

others.

As looking for career opportunities and achieving something big that makes my family proud,

I decided to explore the bunch of opportunities and come to Canada as a student. There was

a huge difference between Canada and my native country in all way like culture, lifestyles,

etc. Initially, live alone in Canada without family support is very difficult for me. Here in

Canada, everything is changed as I expected and I must bring the changes in my lifestyle to

compete with an ever-changing environment. As I’m not a native speaker of English, however,

I have to adopt the changes to improve my level of language proficiency in English for effective

communication with native English speaker for making connections for future career

references. Moreover, over here I manage my time for study, work, food, financial and other

expenses because no one here to help in this.

So, it became a necessity for me to bring revolutionary changes in life to survive here in

Canada. I keep an optimistic approach toward these challenges and comes up with new ideas

to adopt necessary changes. Living alone, give me more degree of freedom but it is meant

that what I think and react is not goes an I planned. I feel more sense of responsibilities and

make a decision on evaluating the pros and cons. As a mature adult, I realize the importance

of opportunities in Canada to uplift the career beyond the traditional boundaries. I take

responsibility and focused on every task whether it is small or big that I perform daily. I make

a timetable on daily basis according to my schedule to save time to extra work that needed

to be done in upcoming days. I do manage each expense and track on what segment I spend

most like eating outside daily cause crisis in the financial statements. I do care about paying

my dues on time like a phone bill, credit card bill, house rent, recharging bus pass, etc. that

makes me free from excessive stress caused by these factors. Preparing food for myself and

learn it to make it fast so it does not make a constraint for me. On another hand, for surviving

in the rapidly changing world, I learned how effectively I conveyed my thoughts and ideas

while talking with others that make my image an intellectual in the public eye. Over here, I

talk with people of different thinking as I am not fully aware of some factors like legal system

and networking. I set criteria to watch at least one video on effective communication and how

to improve my level of language proficiency and try to implement the lesson learned for

career progression.
 WORKPLACE CHANGES

Changes in personal life and workplace are based on different aspect, however, the purpose

will be the same for both i.e. adopt new thing or adjustment in existing dynamics for growth

and progression. Changes in personal life are a self-oriented while, changes at the workplace

for better outcomes for the overall organization. After completing bachelor’s, I worked as a

machine operator on a CNC machine for 7 months before coming to Canada. It was a

manufacturing company which manufactures tractors and its parts. As it was required to

produce a certain amount of quantity which meets the define quality procedures and

standards. To produce that amount of quantity needs excellent knowledge about mechanism

and precise work at high pace. For me at the workplace, the major challenges are to devolve

a skill to operate the machine on my own and keep the production on schedule. As a

mechanical student, I was familiar with the mechanisms and dynamics of different machines.

However, this is only the theoretical knowledge but the working dynamics of the workplace

is far away from theories even these are based on the fundamental of theories.

To acquire that kind of skill which needs the knowledge about CNC programming with a

combination of mechanism and dynamics of mechanical engineering. I learned the CNC

programming through training provided by the company and acquired knowledge from

seniors as well as internet. I try to implement these pieces of advice and make sure that works

for me or not. It took time for me to get familiar and remembered all programs orally. I to

give during issues and try to resolve the issue in a short time. I kept practice on my

fundamentals and always try to improve the ability.

After that, the next challenge for me to produce the product at a high pace with precise

quality and make the overall process simple and efficient. To co-up with this challenge, first
of all, I try to understand the whole process and make a co-ordination between different

process. I estimate the time required to complete the task by activity to activity. Find the way

to reduce the time taken for completing the task in one activity if possible. I made a great

coordination between hand with my mind signal and try reduced the reluctances. Make a

flow of the process according to the order ensuring the precise quality and efficient process.

During, challenging phase I never afraid to be doing things wrong and made mistake. I always

learned from the mistake made previously and implement the lesson learned from that

mistake and try not to do that mistake again and again. Moreover, if I did any mistake

whatever it was a big or small, I always accepted them and tool an accountability for their

consequences.

Concluding, the changes are always good for you and your organization, if the purpose of

them for growth and progression. Initially, everyone resists to adopting changes, however, if

there is a well-defined purpose and outcomes then these propelled us adopt them and

achieve that defines earlier.