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What is the most important skill a project manager should have?

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Question added by Salauddin Mohammad , Sr. Manager, Software Development , Aspen Technology Inc
Date Posted: 2014/04/28
Mahmud Najjar
by Mahmud Najjar , Executive Project Manager , Zahran Operation & Maintenance Company

Project manager spends more than70% of his time communicating. Therefore effective communication skills are regarded as the most important skills a project manager has to have.

Team management is a very important skill a project manager shuold have too. The successful manager must build a team where every member will think and behave as a project manager in term of sharing responsibilities and contributing to the success of the project.

Khaled Salhab
by Khaled Salhab , Sales Representitive , RAZ Industrial and general trade

team oriented, effective communicator

Mohammad Rashid
by Mohammad Rashid , IT Project Manager& Digital Media , TrueForte

leadership, leadership, leadership!

JAIME ESTRADA
by JAIME ESTRADA , Contracts Engineer (Contracts Management) , SRACO-SATORP

 

Effective Communication.

 

Muhammad Usman Habib
by Muhammad Usman Habib , Lead Project Engineer , Sabic - E&PM

1. Leadership

2. Effective and Efficient Communication

Elke Woofter
by Elke Woofter , Project Assistant , American Technical Associates

People skills, communicating, orginizing, coordinating the project and having a good Administrative Assistant  or Engineering Assistant (in an Engineering Project)

Satheesh D Mathew PMP®, PMI-RMP®
by Satheesh D Mathew PMP®, PMI-RMP® , Sr.Project Manager , Qatar Design Consortium

1. Communication Skills

2. Leadership Qualities

ASHIL PRABHAKAR
by ASHIL PRABHAKAR , Senior Engineer ( Mechanical Maintenance ) , TNB Remaco / Al-Dhow Engineering

Patience and Smile.

Nila Eslit
by Nila Eslit , Content Writer for Fitness web , George Allen

First and foremost, he should have the ability to organize things and lead people involved in his team.  

Aside from that, a project manager should also be focused, a team player, a good listener, and able to think quickly.

 

 

SIRAJ AHMED MURUGESAN
by SIRAJ AHMED MURUGESAN , SENIOR MANAGER - FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS , ETA TECHNOPARK LIMITED

man management

Waleed Mohammad Mahmoud, PMP, ITIL, Scrum, Six Sigma, ISO, MCITP
by Waleed Mohammad Mahmoud, PMP, ITIL, Scrum, Six Sigma, ISO, MCITP , Sr. Project Manager - Scrum Master , IT Systems Corporation.

I think Risk manangement skill is the most important.

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