5 Significant Skills for Successful Project Managers in Construction Industry

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
Project Management Principles
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Part 1A: Investigation
i. 5 significant skills used for successful Project Managers in Construction industry
A successful Project Manager is not built upon the learned skills. It takes a lot of
experience for a person designated as a Project Manager to acquire these skills overtime
(Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017). Following are the 5 significant skills that a Project Manager should
possess in order to become successful in Construction Industry:
 Communication Skills: Mostly in the entire life span of a Project Manager, the
maximum skill that is exercised is the communication power. It is essentially
required that a project manager has the efficiency to be able to convey any
message absolutely effectively (Binder, 2016). Along with that, it is also expected
that a project manager possesses necessary communication skills to convey his or
her visions regarding the project, ideas of project propagation, goals that the
project is currently targeting at and the issues that are faced during the project
progression clearly between all the people who are in accordance with the project.
However, communication as a topic can be considered broad (Janssen, Voort &
Veenstra, 2015). Therefore, to encompass it as a significant skill of a project
manager as a whole is quite a difficult process. This can be approached with a
good presentation skill, which would emphasize every conveyed message
throughout the project life-cycle, including the kick-off meetings and the pitching
to the stakeholders and clients (Larson et al., 2014).

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 Leadership: It is specifically important for a Project Manager to brush up his or
her skill as a leader rather than a person who just persuades his or her entire team
to follow orders. If a Project Manager can lead a team successfully, only then the
person can expect his or her allocated project to be delivered on time and with
successful productivity (Rosemann & Brocke, 2015). It is often found nowadays
that a Project Manager is highly skilful but lacks in solid leadership skills. There
is a need to skilfully handle and proceed with a project and there are enough
resources that can add to a Project Manager’s skill to enhance their ability to lead
a team successfully.
 Personal Organization: There is a close proximity that a skill one does not
possess cannot be carried forward. This means that if a Project Manager do not
possess skills of becoming one, it is unjust to expect that the assigned project
team would perform any better (Olechowski et al., 2016). Therefore, first and
foremost a Project Manager should possess skills for the correct way to complete
an assigned task in an organized way and handle the disorientation the project has
with ease (Bassi, 2015). Organizing every work, even in personal life helps a
person acquire the skills of a successful Project Manager.
 Risk and Incident Management: Every project goes through several incidents
that may lead towards a possible risk which may in turn harm the in the future. It
is the duty of a project manager to predict and create the solutions of those in
pending issues even before they occur it might increase the chances of delivering
a project successfully (Fleming, & Koppelman, 2016). Project Managers are
expected to own the skills of having a proper skill to handle all these risks.