Leadership Skills Report: Strategies for Complex Project Management

This report delves into the critical role of leadership skills in project management, emphasizing their significance in guiding complex projects to successful completion. It highlights essential leadership qualities such as effective communication, vision sharing, team management, delegation, and adaptability. The report distinguishes between difficult and complex projects, focusing on the project manager's need to navigate dynamic interfaces, uncertainties, and stakeholder involvement. It explores the importance of team dynamics, the ability to foster collaboration, and the need for conflict resolution. The report also examines the process of staffing projects, emphasizing the assessment of individual behaviors and the use of targeted questions to evaluate leadership and communication styles. It discusses methods for addressing conflicts, including the development of organizational policies and the establishment of clear procedures. Ultimately, the report underscores the value of leadership skills and team management for achieving project success.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Question-1..............................................................................................................................2
Question-2..............................................................................................................................3
Question-3..............................................................................................................................4
Conclusions................................................................................................................................4
Bibliography...............................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
A project manager is the person which is responsible in leading projects with variety of his
leadership skills in managing different scope for the projects. Project managers start with heir
discipline to create and attained the objectives through the successful completion and using
leadership skills in their formations. Projects completes with the help of effective teams that
contributes their efficient time to become qualified and experienced people. In management
system, there are lots of issues and ways to resolve are to be focussed in this report.
Question-1
Leadership strategies are the styles that govern a leader towards success to get the whole
work done by him or team members efficiently and effectively. The effectiveness of any type
of projects depends upon the large extent, skills they pursue to resolve and accommodate the
task and the undertaking of the required projects. There is a clear vision of the practical
scheduling, clarity in reasons and ability of attracting new talents from outside. The leader
always influences the other person to be same as his personality or some other personality
with positive traits and attitudes. Communication, sharing a common vision, team
management, delegation of authority, creativity, honesty and focus are the special quality
which is needed by project manager to apply in relation to the process where he has involved
in managing different type of complex projects. There is a difference between difficult and
complex projects. Complex projects are those who are more characterised by dynamic
interfaces and internal and external influences. Project manager need to be more focussed on
the development in order to set to the adaptive challenges. They need not only focus on
foundation skills, they are also increasing their inner knowledge in leadership with global
marketplace that continues to become more complex (Caietti, 2016).
Complexity refers to the projects that include the traits of uncertainty and ambiguity. Other
indicators of leadership skills that are must for project manager involves projects timeline,
budgets, involvement of stakeholders and numerous moving parts. The essential skills which
are needed are adaptability to the situations which has come your way to resolve them. The
collaboration of the various teams that are produce to encourage the flow of practices that can
resolve in foster changes and communication is the principle which shows about interacting

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in the mutual understanding that code of information in verbal or nonverbal form
(Communication, 2019).
The fourth skill which is essential is to be expertise in the field of structure that situation can
come on the way and expertise leaders go hand in hand. If person can lead, the delivery will
be smooth. Leadership needs guidance, directing, motivating to do best for their team and
understands the contributions of the tasks with the overall visions. If a person is honest, the
team will listen to them and help him to undertake the following task that motivates them to
do in a fastest ways. Leadership comes with the flow of experiences and this cannot be taught
in some time. Project manager always practices himself to be adjusting in these types of
complex projects to get the better results (Simon, 2019). Team management is the activity
which helps manager to distribute the work structure in many ways and get better results of
different minds in the organisations. Having all these skills are essential part of the success
and this motivates the team to develop more solutions to the problems (7 Leadership
Qualities Every Project Manager Should Possess, 2019). Thus, these are all the leadership
skills that able to build more confidence among all and with these types of skills; a project
manager can influence and work on the complex projects.
Question-2
Projects when done in teams have effective ways to increase their shared knowledge. The
experienced people have wide area of understanding the concept behind this. Team
management is a resolving process, but if it is done in an efficiently manner it will come up
with more new ideas and thoughts. Successful projects are the results of careful planning of
step by step procedures that have active collaboration of a project in a team member. The
project manager plays an important primary role and it is being more responsible for the
completion of the task (Project Team Roles and Responsibilities, 2019). Qualified and
experienced person motivate the inner beauty to deal with the situations and provide solutions
to achieve higher success. When I want to staff different projects, I would like to start with
streams of the person and their common behaviour to deal in those projects. The behaviour of
a person can be characterised by number of different factors as his choices to the particular
problem, how person reacts to the situations and how he perceive the things to achieve
success. There is a team lead when there is allotment of the project in different teams to clear
the goals and objectives with clear vision and mission to the projects (General Characteristics
of Human Behaviour , 2019). The several questions should have the official background to
study the research, so if ask to teams, we have also some knowledge about the background.

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The several questions may be ask directly to all members or written in a sequence first and
then ask by one by one to know more about the thoughts and ideas in achieving success
(Project Manager, 2019).
 Have you managed or done any project in your own field or an industry before?
 How you would describe the potential characteristics of your leadership and
communications style that can help in these projects?
 What are the general metrics do you use while determining a project is having
progress on track?
 How do you help you team if you are assigned as leader of your team to divide the
different sections of projects?
 What is the specific strategy for working in the underperforming team members may
be they have more ideas for the allotted projects. Describe it?
 How you all would describe the new outcomes generated with your last projects?
 What are the several approaches you will find in the projects that hits a roadblock, and
does not go with your directions even when there is best efforts of the team?
So, these are the several questions which can be asked when there is an allotment of the
particular task to achieve higher success and accomplishing of the goals are also higher.
Question-3
In the projects, Conflicts are the basic attributes that comes with different people who are
assigned for the same task because of the perception of the attitudes of the persons. Conflicts
and the resolutions are the duties of the person that can contribute in the process to achieve
them. For example, the conflicts can be developing out as a situation when different members
of a group have is understanding of each other roles and responsibilities. A resolution comes
along with the collaborations of the people within the same assign of the projects or in the
internal organisations and people must be rely on each other (Guan, 2019). The four
common methods to resolve the conflicts are the development of the organisations conflicts
policies and procedures, use of hierarchy referrals, requirements of direct contact and the
fourth one can be establishments of the projects during the activities when they are planned.
In order to to be more effective, there should be an understanding of their conflict that has
happened and the main resolutions to the nature. Good project manager always deals and
realise that conflicts are inevitable, but when techniques and procedures are made, they are
able to achieve success. When conflict occurs, the Project Manager should deal to study the

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problem with the collection of available information provided. Development of the situational
approach to the following study and the third one will state how to set the appropriate
atmosphere or climate. The management of conflicts that places the more situations is having
selective conflict resolutions. Based on the situations, there is a type of conflicts and the
various methods to resolve them (Rongala, 2019).
Conclusions
The report states that leadership skills are best skills that are used by project manager to
influence others in relations to the process which is involved in managing diversified
complex projects. Team Management is also important for achieving success to the task and
with the situations. When there is selection of best teams, the output of the required data will
be more. Conflicts and resolutions are the part of any management system or any
organizations that helps to develop more solving nature to the problems. The resolving stage
is easy and conflicts need time to evaluate the things and how they are occurring in the
prescribed situations. We can conclude that effective skills of leadership are required in
taking steps further in an organisations and this can be solved by effective team structures.

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