Importance of Communication Skill for Role of Project Manager

Running head: MASTERS OF BUSSINESS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Masters of Business and Project Management: Importance of Communication Skill for Role of
Project Manager
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Introduction
This essay depicts the concise review of the literature, particularly focusing on the skills
as well as the skills that are necessary for the development of a personnel career. For any
business organization, project managers play the most crucial roles to meet the project goal and
organizational objectives (Coombs, 2015). In order to develop the career of any personnel certain
skills are needed to be possessed by the project managers such as competence management, risk
management, professional communication.
For different job roles the allocated set of skills also differs a lot and for this specific
essay on career advancement the chosen skill for the profession of project manager is
professional communication. Skill is defined as the capacity or ability that can be obtained
through deliberate, systematic rather sustained efforts for smoothly complex job roles and
professional activities (Hagemeier et al., 2014). The skills that a project manager needs to
possess include consistency, flexibility, communication, problem solving ability etc.
Literature review
According to Munyon et al., (2015) communication is one of the most important skills as
it helps to provide the project team members a positive working environment with effective
working efficiency. Besides professional communication leadership, operational abilities are the
additional abilities that today’s project managers should have. The career that has been
nominated for illustrating this essay is project manager and the skill that has been nominated for
the student is professional communication (Brady et al., 2016). It has been identified that the
path of becoming a project manager will become much easier if the student possess proper

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communicating skill. Hagemeier et al., (2014) stated that communication management is very
necessary for the critical project success rather in the world of project management
communication is always highlighted as a n essential process. However not only the project
manager but also all the project team members are required to have proper ability to
communicate with each other. Open communication will allow the project team members to
share the point of views with the other project team members. With the addition of the high level
creative project level ideas a simple project can become successful with quality. Kerzner &
Kerzner, (2017) opined that, success of a project is also dependent on its quality and the quality
of any project can be improved with the undertaken actions by the project manager being the
head of the projects.
For different professional the definition and necessity of skills also differs a lot such as
technical skills, interpersonal skill, cognitive skill etc. However, for any job role inter-personal
skill is very much important (Nickolayev et al., 2015). Thus, it is necessary for the project
managers to communicate accurately with the rest of the project team members to provide an
efficient an effective working environment. The aim of this essay is to develop a clear and
inspiring vision of what the project manager needs to achieve in their career.
The professional level communication is comprises of some components such as ideation,
sending the encoded message to the receiver side with overcoming the noise, decoding the
received message, communication channel, feedback after decoding the message.
Communication approach has the ability to exchange understandable information from the
sender side to the receiver side. Efficient communication is important for the success of
programs, projects and portfolio etc (Gibson & Sodeman, 2014). Typically if there is something
that may negatively impact the project scope, cost, risk and quality if a project then that is