Principles of Project Management

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Principles of Project Management
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PRINCIPLES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Project Management Competencies:
While a project is in the execution stage, the project manager plays an important role
within the project. For executing the project in successful manner it is very much important for
the project managers to have some important traits. This traits will also make the project
managers very much effective in the context of project management procedures. While global
project management is considered there are various of personal traits which must be possessed
by the project managers so that all the projects managed by them will have greater efficiency
(Kerzner, 2017). The important traits that need to be possessed by the project managers are the
positive attitude, good communication skills, honesty and organization. In the following section
why these traits are important in this context will be discussed.
 Positive Attitude: Positive attitude is one of the most important traits which a project
manager must consist. Both the, good and bad attitudes can impact the project and can
make it faster or can make it failure (Nicholas & Steyn, 2017). Here positive attitudes
reflects the good side of the project managers which is very much important to achieve
successful and faster project completion. Thus all the project managers must possess the
positive attitude traits. Communication Skills: Communication skills are crucial as project manager needs to
explain various aspects of the project which includes assignments related with the
project, timeline of the project and project status update to all the stakeholders of the
project (Kurtz, Draper & Silverman, 2017). For this effective communication skills is
required from the end of project manager. Thus trait is important for the project manager. Honesty: Honesty is very much important to build the trust among the employees of an
organization. Here trust among the employees are important as this is crucial for