Personal Learning Portfolio - Project Leadership

Running head: PORTFOLIO ENTRY 1
Portfolio Entry 1
Topic: Personal Learning Portfolio - Project Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Self-assessment as a project leader........................................................................................2
Assessment of a leader from another perspective..................................................................3
Identification of the required leadership skills.......................................................................4
The current state and future of a project with respect to the acquired leadership style.........4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The fundamental difference of responsibilities and the way to conduct them forms a
difference between a Project manager and a Project Leader. This is dependent upon the way a
person manages to either handle a project from its initial phases to the project completion or
lead the entire team towards a unified goal by making the team follow the path as per their
views (Hoegl & Muethel, 2016). The competency of a project manager is dependent upon the
skills that a person gathers through practice and learning, but leadership competencies are the
ones that a person is born with, and is further elevated by self-assessments and self-
development. Following would be a discussion on the self-assessment of a Project Leader,
the assessment from another perspective and identification of the required leadership skills of
a leader in a project. This would also be defined as the characteristics of a project leader and
the future prospects of a leader.
Self-assessment as a project leader
As per the leadership qualities that have been developed in this section, the ways by
which a project leader can be distinguished from the project manager is the qualities that a
person possesses (Buba & Tanko, 2017). This is not just the abilities of a person to develop
the skills required for obtaining a certain project goal but also relies in making the people in a
project team be influenced by the views of the leader to meet a certain goal.
Assessing the qualities within self, it can be said that I am effective in making the
people in my project team convey the basic ideas about a project and make the team
understand that I am available at any instance that they would require me to be accessible in
case of a trouble (Aga, Noorderhaven & Vallejo, 2016). I am more interested in the effects or