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PW Season

By Kevin

Take the right risks...

I guess it's the Project Work season again and it'll be worth your while to check out our PW page for some generic advice. This year, I'm glad to be able to offer some of my personal take on the question and the potential ideas and approaches. This could possibly the most useful piece on PW that ERPZ can offer for this year.

I shall first tackle Task 1, 'Risk'; it is not too tough and usually, PW questions are given so that you have a lot of room to explore different things. Which is wonderful.

Aim
This project task encourages you to took at the idea of risk and then show how risk-taking might affect people.

Task Requirements
Choose one example of risk-taking (in history, business, environmental studies, science, etc.), show how the need to take specific risks arose and analyse the positive and negative effects which resulted from the actions taken.

Suggest how lessons learned might be used to guide similar risk-taking in the future by individuals and/or groups.

There is a whole load of cases and examples out there for risk-taking and risky behaviours so just take your pick and then try and analyse each of the cases carefully. Ask yourself some of these questions:

• What are the impacts of the action taken?
• What is the agenda of the risk-takers?
• Think abt how the risk-taking has been coordinated.
• What're the aspects within their control and how did they manage these aspects?
• What are the aspects they couldnt control and how they take actions to cover up down-side risks or prevent undesirable outcomes?
• Use all these different parts to piece together the lessons and come up with a sort of 'guideline' or training programme

Comments are welcomed though students should not expect me to be guiding them on their specific projects.