Thursday, January 27, 2011

Project Managers: roles, skills, and leadership


The role of project managers vary depending on the company that they work for, but most include responsibilities like planning, scheduling, coordinating, and working with a team to achieve project goals. A project manager deals with day-to-day details of meeting specific goals. They often take the role of both leader and manger. It is suggested that all project manager have skills that include:
• People skills
• Leadership
• Listening
• Integrity, ethical behavior, consistent
• Strong at building trust
• Verbal communication
• Strong at building teams
• Conflict resolution, conflict management
• Critical thinking, problem solving
• Understands, balances priorities

The three most important skills to have no matter what type of project manager you are is, people skills, leadership and the ability to listen. A project manager that shows strong leadership skills has a 97% of a successful project where they often help influence success factors. Some of those factors include being able to focus on long-term goals and big-picture objectives while inspiring their team to reach those goals.



The field of IT is growing and every successful project needs a project manager. So the profession of project management is growing at a very rapid pace.

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