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Running Head: Making Things Happen 1
Making Things Happen
Adefemi Ajayi
Eastern Kentucky University.
Making Things Happen 2
A project is a unique piece of work with predefined start and end dates, objective, scope and budget (Salminen
and Lanning, 1999).Project Manager is not necessarily a job title (p. 2); for example, when I worked in a high school,
depending on the type of project, different individuals are assigned to manage the project based on their expertise. My job
designation as an Advance Mathematics Coordinator for High School students and also as the Information Technology
Centre (ICT Centre) manager were both Project management functions which involved planning, writing teaching notes
according to the syllabus (writing specification), making decisions and implementation management which were all
project management needed skills. As a Project manager, the failure to appropriately figure out the right paradox to adopt
at different stages can significantly affect a project negatively. For example, I could not meet my target at the end of the
semester because I did not delegate appropriately. This shortcoming was as a result of my love for teaching. I was invested
in my job and did not utilize available delegation opportunities. Project managers must delegate important or fun tasks
and share rewards with the entire team (p. 11).
As a project manager there will be situations where you have to be autocratic to get the work done, for instance,
the high school Principal do get furious and charge all instructors anytime students perform below expectation on
