Essential Skills for a Project Manager

Leadership
A project manager needs to be a dependable and trustworthy leader, inspiring confidence and loyalty.
Having confidence that a project manager has the power and skill to succeed, can directly influences team performance.

Communication
Clear, specific and agreeable goals is a foundation for project success.
Sharing information on project goals, applying different methods to engage whilst also seeking feedback from customers and project team members, are some important elements of effective engagement and communications.

Teamwork
Effective project managers see themselves as a leader that serves the team.
Enabling the team as a whole and individual members achieve their goals by facilitating connections, collaboration, sharing lessons and knowledge.

Negotiation
A big part of a project manager’s job is managing the customer’s expectations within the reality of what the team can deliver. A clear agreed project scope enables a sound footing for effective negotiations.

Time Management
Time management is an important aspect of any project manager’s coordination efforts.
Factors like project complexity or its evolving nature can often mean time is underestimated. In these situations it may be very important to make time allowances at the task and project level to accommodate for many ‘unknowns’.