PMW006 Stacey Schroeder conducted Leadership Skills For Project Managers

NOTICE: An opportunity is available to apply to become an officer serving until December 31, 2022. Send an email to pmw@projectmanagementworld.org.

This presentation is about what you need to know in order to be successful. Included are important issues to consider such as, basic skills, team building and how to promote unity and knowledge among your team. A well designed process is key.

Identify your stakeholders. Put them into one of four categories:

– Apply appropriate costs

– Communication

– Strategies

– Tactics

List names of who’s above you, who reports to you/supports you/works for you as well as customers, both internal and external.

Need “agree in” from above you. Establish and evaluate subordinates role and support, resource support and schedule for ongoing communication with senior staff. Get upper management involved.

Select the right team using the following items: the preliminary vision, challenge in a comprehensive way, formulate a plan before solving, develop alternative solutions and verify the approach to be used.

Also valuable is a need for the people above you, that agree with your program, to establish, evaluate, subordinates role, and support, resource support, and schedule for ongoing communication with senior staff.

Important too is to figure out communication styles among the group to promote creativity and trust. The best approach may well be to create a document outline that can be shared by the whole team on how to prevent miscommunication, hurt feelings, and/or possibly offending team members.

Identifying your leadership style is important as well. Communication with your group is critical too. Always be ready to improve, shape, and grow. Remember, leadership starts at the top. Your availability to the team members is important too. The group will work well if there is a feeling of compatibility and a shared mission.

There are varying management styles. Rather than a sequence of tasks, the agile approach breaks down milestones, delivering the project requirements incrementally throughout the project cycle.