Leadership Profiling Tool: Skills and Analysis for Project Managers

This report provides an in-depth analysis of a leadership profiling tool designed to assess and enhance the skills of project managers. The introduction highlights the importance of effective leadership and management skills, such as communication, team building, and motivation, for achieving project goals. The main body delves into the key skills required of project managers, including interpersonal communication, team building, influencing, and negotiation. It then examines a leadership profiling tool, presenting a series of questions designed to identify skill gaps and areas for development. The report explains the rationale behind these questions, emphasizing the significance of active listening, planning, emotional intelligence, time management, and various leadership styles. The report concludes by summarizing the benefits of using such a tool, emphasizing how it can help project managers evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, leading to improved performance and project success. The report references various academic sources to support its findings.

Leadership profiling tool

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Key management and leadership skills required of project manager..........................................1
Leadership profiling tool for project managers...........................................................................2
Explanation of reasons of choosing questions............................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Leadership profiling tool is an assessment tool of skills which they need to develop and
focus on individual's preferences. This study will show some effective leadership and
management skills that a project manager need to have with the main aim of accomplishing their
goals. It will also show importance of effective communication, team building and motivation
skills for becoming a successful project manager (Grayson and et.al., 2015). Leadership profiling
tool and with the help of some questions a manager identifies some skills which they require
developing and also show reasons of selecting all questions.
MAIN BODY
Key management and leadership skills required of project manager
A project manager refers a responsible person in overall in charge of execution of
planning of a specific & particular project. There are some leadership and management skills that
are required to have in a project manager. For becoming a successful project manager there is a
requirement of strong & effective management and leadership skills such as effective
interpersonal communication skills, team building skills, influencing skills, negotiation skills etc.
Team building: An effective leader and manager help team members and also make
them able to give their individual as well as group contribution for achieving goals. So it is also
important for a project manager to focus on developing this skill (Bindlish and Nandram, 2018).
Motivation: For completing a project in an accurate manner leaders communicate vision
of the organization among team members. After communicating they help and guide them and
motivate therm for accomplishing project and tasks. So, it is important for project manager to
posses and have this motivation and inspiring skills.
Communication: It is stated and believed that any type of work can be done if all
departments and people work collaboratively and together. For working in a team,
communication play a vital role and leaders focus on developing an effective communication in
order to make them able to work more productively. By developing and having this skill, a
project manager can be successful.
Listening & influencing: For getting work done from others and employees it is
essential to have a strong influencing skill. Active listening skills also can help a project manager
in making an effective decision if they listen properly and consider team members perspectives.
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Leadership profiling tool for project managers
Leadership profiling refers an effective tool that can help a project manager in order to
identify skills and evaluate skills which are being required by them to develop and which they
already have. With the help of this tool they can make themselves able to become successful and
make all projects in an effective manner. There are some questions that shows a project manager
about their skills as what they need to develop and how that skills can help them out in
accomplishing their goals (Fourman, GAIASOFT IP Ltd, 2015).
Some questions include:
1. Are you an active listener?
2. Do you like working towards a better future?
3. Do you have skills of making well prepared plan?
4. Your actions are frequently influenced by your emotions?
5. Do you perform all jobs in a hurry?
6. Do you consider suggestions made by others in a group?
7. Which best describe your approach to motivate team members?
8. The best leadership style which make them successful?
9. Do you like to build better relationship with people?
10. Do you like to try out new ways of doing things?
From the above questions it can be easy for a project manager to analyse that what skills
are required to have. By answering of all questions they can easily analyse their own skills and
weaknesses as which they want to increase and which they already have. All the questions shows
importance of having skills like communication, involvement of people, consequences of
feelings etc. It has identified that a project manager have some skills among all questions and
some they need to develop (Leslie and Turner, 2015). They need to develop time management
skills, active listening skills, having control over emotions while making decisions and taking an
action. They have some skills like effective communication, importance of involving people and
democratic style, planning skills etc.
From the above questions it can be very easy for the project manager to analyse and
evaluate the required skills in effective leadership. After the answering of all the questions stated,
they can easily evaluate own strength and weaknesses and ways to bring improvement. It is very
important that leaders should not be influenced by the emotions as they have to think first for the
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organisational goals instead of satisfying others. It is very important that leader can make
balance in between emotions and organisational objectives. Further, level of patience is also
greatly matters to have the best leadership skills. A good leader is one who analyse work before
implementing it on the workplace. Patience is an indispensable leadership attribute, it also
demands skills more often associated with management. Leaders ability to lead patiently requires
us to manage the situations in which we find ourselves. In addition to this, the above questions
also stated the importance of motivation in the team members which can only be done by the
efforts of leaders. Motivation is a goal-oriented characteristic which aids to achieve the
organisational objectives. It pushes all the employee to work hard to execute personal and
organisation gaols (Linford and et.al., 2016).
So it can be said that a leadership profiling tool and an assessment tool can be beneficial
for a project manager and can also help them out in increasing their skills which they need to
develop.
Explanation of reasons of choosing questions
The first question is all about having active listening skills and the main aim of including
and selecting this question is to make a project manager able to analyse their skill and show the
importance of active listening skill. By developing and having active listening skill they can
make an effective decision. The purpose of choosing other and 2nd question of working towards a
Better future is to have long-term planning and goals and also for making employees believe that
this company and manager rely on long term future.
Next question is shows the importance of making an effective planning. By this question,
a project manager can identify the importance of having skills of effective planning. An effective
plan make a leader and manager able to work accordingly and get the work done from other with
productively. Aim of selecting 4th question of influences of emotions is to make understand
manager that emotions can have negative impacts on actions. For example, anger and lack of pat
ions can have negative impacts on their actions and work as it can increase labour turnover rate
in the company in which they operate (Leadership legacy, 2011).
Other question can show a project manager an importance of time management. If they
perform all jobs in hurry then it can decrease their productivity and can have to suffer from some
issues. The purpose of choosing 6th question of taking suggestions of others is to show a project
manager about importance of group members in the process of decision making. When a leader
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and manager involve their employees and members and take their suggestions in decision
making process then it can make a strong decision and can also motivate their employees.
7th question can show a project manager about different ways and approach of
motivating people. By analysing all approaches of motivation like rewards, praise they can take
the best way and make themselves able to accomplish their goals. The main aim of choosing 8th
question is to make a project manager understand the best style of leading. They can analyse
advantages and disadvantages of all styles of leadership and then can chose the best style. It is
also identified and analysed that democratic and transformational style of managing and leading
all resources is the best which can help a project manager in making them successful (Leadership
profiling tool, 2019).
Other question can show the importance of interpersonal and better relationship. An
improved relationship can help a project manager in getting the work done in an accurate manner
and can also make employees happy and encourage at workplace. When a leader and manager
more focus on relationship and they become relationship oriented as it makes employees more
able to work towards achieving organizational goals. The main purpose of choosing The last
question of trying out new and innovative ways of performing things is to make a project
manager able to bring innovation and creativity at workplace. By performing things in innovative
ways can increase customer satisfaction and can also increase profitability of their company.
Innovation and creativity can also make them able to being in a competition and take competitive
advantages.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been summarized that an effective and strong leadership and
management skills played a vital role for becoming a successful project manager. Some skills
that it has shown includes interpersonal communication, team building, active listening and
influencing. BY having all these skills a project manager achieved its determined goals. Further
this report has also shown importance of leadership profiling tool and questions that helped a
project manager in selecting and identifying the best leadership and management style of
managing a particular project.
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