Essential Skills for a Successful Project Manager

The assignment content highlights the importance of a project manager in ensuring the success or failure of a project. The project manager is responsible for formulating an action plan, managing limited resources, and communicating effectively with stakeholders. The article emphasizes the need for a project manager to possess certain skills such as sound leadership, communication, risk management, time management, negotiation, and subject matter expertise. Additionally, the project manager must have professional and personal ethics, behave ethically, and follow legal requirements.

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In Corporates, the board of directors are ultimate responsible for the success and
failure of corporation, as they are the superior authority to take a decisions for any
project or action plans. Similarly the project manager is ultimate responsible person
for the success and failure of project. The project manager formulate an action plan
for successful implementation of project, use the limited resource In maximum
possible ways, and ensure to management and peoples of top executives that their
limited resources are used in proper direction, with intention to meet the expectation
of all stakeholders.
The project manager is a bridge between the top managerial persons and the peoples
working within and under the project managers, hence it is essential that a project
managers should own following skill, in order to effectively manage a project and in
order to use the limited resource in best possible ways. (The Digital Project Manager.
(2019)
A) Sound and Strong leadership skill
B) Ability to communicate two ways, such as form top to bottom and from bottom
to top level of corporation.
C) Skill to formulate a framework to manage the risk in best possible ways
D) Ability to plan a future Couse of action and planning to allocate the authority
and responsibilities among the employees and officer working with them.
E) Ability to manage the various project with in the given deadline ( time
management skill )
F) Skill to negotiate, the project manager must have a strong skill to negotiate
G) The Expert in subject matter is a supportive aspects to exploit the available
opportunity. (de Bakker, K., Boonstra, A. and Wortmann, H. (2012).
So above stated skill and knowledge are the core requirement while action as a project
manager and while discharge a duties as a responsible person to corporation. Further
in addition this the project manager must own some professional and person skill,
he/she should have their own ethical standers, he/she behave professionally and must
differentiate between the person and professional duties, and give more priority to the
professional work, and keeping their personal stander higher. (Mascia, A. (2014).
The project manager behave ethically and incorporate the ethical standers in every
transection, more over the project manager should follow and adopt the provision of
all laws of lend, and try to follow the legal requirement beyond the later of laws and
sprites, that means a project manager should not follow the legal and ethical aspect on
account of fear of being caught, rather the project manager personally and
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professionally believe that adoption of ethical and legal stander would be in best
interest of corporation and in project itself. (Linsner, R. (2012).
The collaboration does mean working together as per the instruction and direction of
project in charge or project manager.
Both the project manager and working experience place you one step ahead from the
current position, both the critical part of project manager and work place experience it
that a project manager update your skill and knowledge in versatile ways while in case
of work place you can be an expert in specified subject and in specified direction only.
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References
de Bakker, K., Boonstra, A. and Wortmann, H. (2012). Risk managements'
communicative effects influencing IT project success. International Journal of
Project Management, 30(4), pp.444-457.
Linsner, R. (2012). Optimierung des Cash Managements in
Unternehmen. Controlling, 24(8-9), pp.479-484.
Mascia, A. (2014). Project manager: leader, influencer e conflict
manager. PROJECT MANAGER (IL), (20), pp.19-23.
The Digital Project Manager. (2019). 7 Essential Project Management Skills for
2019 - The Digital Project Manager. Available at:
https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/project-management-skills/ [Accessed 3
Jun. 2019].
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