You want to be a successful project manager, What are the top priority skills that you feel you should master?

Communication

Planning

Budgeting

Resolving issues  

Leadership

Leadership skills

Team Building

Planning and Organizational skills

Budgeting

Effective communication

Motivational skills

Attention to details

Problem solving

Negotiation skills

 

 

Leadership and Management for Extreme Projects For extreme projects, being a great leader and manager is even harder because the projects you lead change constantly, which means you must change constantly too. In his book eXtreme Project Management, Doug DeCarlo gives an in-depth overview of extreme project management. According to him, this methodology does not begin and end at managing work in a flexible environment; it also includes adapting your mindset to a new way of thinking and developing a new set of leadership skills. If you are a leader of extreme projects, and you want to work on improving your leadership and management skills, we have some tips to help you be a better leader for your team. Tips to rework your management style:1. Set priorities. Set project priorities, tell the team why they’ve been prioritized that way, and if the project is cancelled, give them sound reasoning. If you have standards for determining project priority, your team will feel less frustration when project priorities shift.2. Communicate constantly. In a flexible environment, projects change a lot. Do not keep your team in the dark. If there is an update, tell them what has changed and why — immediately. Waiting means there is a higher chance someone will have to redo their work in order to match the new requirements. Avoid high-stress situations by communicating every project change quickly and clearly.3. Set clear roles & ownership. Extreme project management means that there is less hierarchy and time involved in decision-making. That means everyone needs to know exactly who has the knowledge (or ability) to make decisions. Ensure that roles and responsibilities on your team and within management are crystal clear. And give your individual team members the confidence to make their own calls if they see something that needs to be done. XPM is about spreading and sharing responsibility, not locking it into the hands of a few people.4. Reward your team for a job well done. If you’re working on a fast-paced project with changing requirements and ever-increasing scope, chances are you’ll be awash in relief when the project is finally complete. As a manager, make sure you recognize the great effort it took to get from day1 to the end. Celebrate the skills, problem-solving, and high energy your team exhibited during the project before moving on to the next. If your team knows you appreciate and recognize them, it will fight low morale and burnout, and motivate your team for the next challenge. Tips to adapt your leadership mindset:1. Study your own temperament. Your temperament is a good indication of your behavior during projects. Great leaders learn how to remain calm under pressure, even when their extreme project team is stressed — which will certainly happen with these types of projects. Are you able to be the voice of reason in a difficult situation? Practice soft skills to create a good atmosphere for your projects; read books on better communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and influencing people. Check out our list of books every manager should read.2. Learn to accept change as good. Humans like stability; it’s in our nature. With everything constantly changing, extreme projects put a lot of emotional strain on the people involved. But you can’t resist changes to project plans if you want XPM to work for your team, so learn how to get comfortable with last-minute scrambles. If you can’t fully get comfortable, at least be aware of your own resistance so that you can fight your tendencies when they rear their predictable heads. Remember: if your project is changing, it is probably for the better. Don’t shoot down new ideas without considering how they can positively impact your final outcome!3. Trust your team to be responsible, capable adults. If you come from traditional management styles, where all decisions are made slowly after being reviewed by countless people, XPM will probably make your head spin. Decisions are made faster, and without the red tape that comes with big companies and complex hierarchies. Trust your team (and yourself!) to be intimate enough with the project that they will make the best decisions for your project without requiring extra input each time. If you have communicated the project goals clearly and thoroughly, then everyone should be able to make informed decisions for the team. Leadership is a Constant Work-in-progress I argue that leadership and management skill sets are not the kind you can master — they are the kind that you constantly work to improve. People look to you to make the best decisions, to always know what is going on with every aspect of every project, and to remain calm under the pressure of intense project environments. You have to be a hero among heroes, and that is hard. In order to be the best leader and manager you can be, it requires constant vigilance and education.

§  Credibility – the project manager is coming into an established organization and must have a reputation or presence of credibility to receive the respect and support of the client and team.

§  Creativity as a problem solver – projects are never “business as usual”.

§  Tolerance for ambiguity – a project manager can often be unfamiliar with the kind of work the client does and needs to be able to adapt and move the project forward, even if all aspects of the company aren’t understood perfectly.

§  Flexible management style – a project manager is constantly dealing with new people and environments and must adjust accordingly. They do not have the luxury of an established rapport with their project associates.

§  Effective communicating – because of the ambiguous nature of projects, good communication skills are crucial in understanding what is expected by the client and being able to convey that vision to the project team.

§  Interpersonal skills. These skills include providing direction, communicating, assisting with problem solving, and dealing effectively with people without having authority.

§  Technical expertise. Technical knowledge gives the project manager the creditability to provide leadership on a technically based project, the ability to understand important aspects of the project, and the ability to communicate in the language of the technicians.

§  Administrative skills. These skills include planning, organizing, and /managing/ overseeing/coordinating the work.

 

 

In order to be a successful project must be successful commander group manager. First, led the team that works with me with full knowledge of the merits of the project and its requirements. Second, the distribution of roles do I correctly on the team depending on their competence and expertise. Third set a timetable for ending the project ahead of time of the possibility of the final review before final delivery

Following skills produce a good manager:

(1,) Professional or technical skill (2.) Human skill (interpersonal skill) (3) Conceptual skill (4) Leadership (5) MS Project Management 

1- Communications

2- Team Builder

3- Problem Solver

4- Work Ethics

Should be team leader, role model, strong communication skills, logical approach for any problem, to Be able to work under tremendous pressure,  

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I agree with En.Alex Al Yazouri .

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Overview, leadership and communication.

The bulk of the manual and detailed work I'll leave with my better skilled specialist colleagues/employees

Leadership , negotiation ,solving the problems.