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Do the exercises and show your work
7–14 weeks (4 hrs/week)
Take Principles of Management for free and do the chapter questions and cases (planning, organising, leading, controlling, decision-making). Keep your answers in one public place (a repo, a shared folder or a page) as you go, with your reasoning shown.
Proof required
Link your public folder with the chapter questions and cases (planning, organising, leading, controlling, decision-making), and show your self-check (Principles of Management: end-of-chapter questions).
What gets checked
- Each case answer names the management idea it uses.
- Decisions are argued with the trade-offs.
- Review questions are checked against the key.
Common mistakes
- Answers copied from a key: verifiers read the reasoning.
- Numbers with no working.
- Asking for review before the self-check.
Powstik Guide
A public folder with your worked answers to the chapter questions and cases (planning, organising, leading, controlling, decision-making).
Steps
- Make a public folder or repo for this course.
- Do one chapter or problem set at a time and save it.
- Self-check: Answer each chapter's review questions before you read the answer. Where the book gives an answer key, mark yourself against it; for the rest, check each answer against the chapter text and note the section. Write down what you got wrong.
- Fix what the self-check shows, and say what you fixed.
- Ask three people who know the topic to check it.
Template
README Course: Principles of Management (OpenStax Principles of Management (free book)) What is here: Self-check result: The hardest question and why:
What gets sent back
- Answers with no working.
- Self-check not shown.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- Each case answer names the management idea it uses.
- Decisions are argued with the trade-offs.
- Review questions are checked against the key.
- Pick two answers and check every step.
- Ask about one step; the answer should be clear.
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Audit how a real team is managed
1–3 weeks (5–8 hrs/week)
Use what you learned. Make a management audit of a real team, club or small business, built from two interviews: how it plans, organises, leads and checks results, with three findings and one recommended change. Put it where verifiers can open it. Use public information, or data you have permission to use; never publish a real person's private details.
Proof required
Link a management audit of a real team, club or small business, built from two interviews: how it plans, organises, leads and checks results, with three findings and one recommended change, and a short note on what you decided or changed because of it.
What gets checked
- Two people were interviewed and their roles are described.
- Each finding links to an idea from the course.
- The recommendation follows from the findings.
Common mistakes
- Invented or unsourced figures.
- A conclusion the evidence does not support.
Powstik Guide
A management audit of a real team, club or small business, built from two interviews: how it plans, organises, leads and checks results, with three findings and one recommended change.
Steps
- Write one line: what you will show.
- Gather the real data, people or documents.
- Draft it, then read it cold the next day.
- Ask someone to mark the first claim they doubt.
- Fix it and ask three people to check it.
Template
Title: What this shows: Sources: Method: Result: Limits:
What gets sent back
- Unsourced numbers.
- Not clearly the person's own work.
- Claims more than it shows.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- Two people were interviewed and their roles are described.
- Each finding links to an idea from the course.
- The recommendation follows from the findings.
- Check that the work is the person's own and the sources are real.
- Ask how a number was found.
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