Project Management Responsibilities and Skills

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“While project management is an activity undertaken with others, the projects
themselves involve these other people doing—or not doing—just what is needed. This
happens in an environment where the project manager has far less authority than
responsibility, and it is this limitation of authority that characterises the project manager's
role and propels the most successful project managers to demonstrate leadership.”
I have been allocated as a project manager for various projects. The post of a project
manager sounds fascinating but it has numerous responsibilities that I need to fulfil. My
responsibility is not only towards the organization but also my team members (Zwikael &
Smyrk, 2015). My responsibility deals with proper planning, initiating, executing and closing
a particular project. Besides carrying out these stages, I have to ensure that the project is
beneficial for the entire organz8ation and so that any loophole in the project does it affect the
organization negatively in the aspects of its market value as well as its customer base
(Verzuh, 2015). The team members are to be treated carefully so that are stay interested did
the project, besides this, they are required to be motivated from time to time so that they do
not lose interest from the project and they involve themselves completely into the project. I
try to related the project goals with the personal goals of the staffs so that they feel more
energized in working for the project, besides this I require to have a set of certain skills such
as ability to ask numerous questions that are penetrating in nature, detect few assumptions
which are usually unstated and hence resolve various conflicts that take place within the
team, it might be between the employees or between me and an employee (Martens &
Carvalho, 2017). I mostly try to avoid conflicts they do not impose serious threat on the
project as well as the organization. Besides this, I am supposed to have various management
skills that would be required for the purpose of managing the entire team as well as the