Project Management Competencies and Project Selection

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES AND PROJECT SELECTION
Project Management Competencies and Project Selection
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1PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES AND PROJECT SELECTION
1. Based on your current understanding of global project management, critically analyse
particular personal traits or competencies that are important for project managers to
possess in order to be most effective?
Personality traits or competencies are very much important for the successful completion
of a project within the budget and time period allocated for the project. The qualities of a project
manager are very much important to deal with critical business conditions, such as the
unavailability of the resources which are often found in the projects (Lloyd, 2016).
The primary attribute of a project manager required in the project is their leadership and
communication skill which are very much important to deal with the complexities coming from
both the internal stakeholders of project such as the investors of the project as well as from the
external stakeholders such as the supplier of the raw materials.
The vision of the project managers is also very much important in complex projects. Each of
the stakeholders of the project has to be managed by the project managers using their negotiation
and decision making skills. Team building skill is the other personality trait of a project
manager which is needed to balance the team members of the project (Lounsbury et al., 2016).
The balance of a team is maintained by both years of experience in the same industry,
educational qualifications of the candidates and the priority of the main stakeholders of the
project in terms of the designation. Interpersonal skills and problem solving attitude are very
much important for the project managers in order to deal with the project management.
However, in spite of having these skills, there are complexities in a project when the
resources are starved, these kinds of complexities can effectively be solved by the project
members of the team itself. The role or the personality traits of the project managers have no