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Developing
a grand vision,
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Building the project
management team and leading the team through the steps of the
project management process
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Leadership skills; leading the project
team through the stages of
team
development
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Managerial communication skills: verbal, both one-on-one and with a group, and
written
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People-management skills such as
constructive feedback,
conflict resolution,
managing individual styles and personalities
Leadership-Management Synergy
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Facilitation
skills
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Skills at
interfacing across the organization and removing obstacles for the team
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Ability to
accept criticism,
feedback, and input from
others
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Skills in using
team-based tools such as
brainstorming, organizing,
decision making,
project management,
conflict resolution, and so on.
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Selling skills. The ability to promote and sell the project both within and
outside the organization.
Presentation
skills.
Evolving Entrepreneurial
Role of the Project Manager
Project
Management: Two Approaches
Today project managers have to go beyond the
traditional project delivery practices and master the
Business Synergies
approach. This new system requires thinking of the
project as a business enterprise and managing the project as a business
venture. Thus you have to consider not only the success of the project
itself but also the success of the project outcome. You need to
understand how your organization
creates value
for its major stakeholders – shareholders,
customers, and the business team, and also
take responsibility for delivering that value.
The new role of the project manager requires
an ultimate knowledge of the
strategy the project is supporting. Taking the business systems
approach requires also knowledge of organization,
motivation,
marketing, accounting, cost control, finance, and quantitative
decision making from the project manager's perspective.
The
entrepreneurial approach to project
management essentially expands two dimensions of the project management
process – time and boundaries. Considering the project outcome and its
lifecycle expands time beyond the traditional horizon of project
completion. Project boundaries are also expanded. Stakeholders start
playing more important role as partners. On the other side, market
forces now go beyond the customer and end-user to include additional
factors such as competition.
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