What is leadership?
The ability to inspire confidence and support among the people who are needed to achieve organisational goals.
What are the four things that promote partnership idea between project manager and the team?
- Exchange of purpose
- A right to say no
- Joint accountability
- Absolute honesty
How do Project managers lead?
Project managers function as mini-CEOs and manage both “hard” technical details and “soft” people issues Project managers: acquire project resources motivate and build teams have a vision and fight fires communicate
What are some of the reasons why projects are underfunded?
vague goals lack of top management support requirements understated insufficient funds distrust between managers
What are some of the purposes of the meetings?
- They define the project and the major team players.
- They provide an opportunity to revise, update, and add to all participants’ knowledge base,
including facts, perceptions, experience, judgments, and other information pertinent to the
project. - They assist team members in understanding how their individual efforts fit into the overall
whole of the project as well as how they can each contribute to project success. - They help all stakeholders increase their commitment to the project through participation in
the management process. - They provide a collective opportunity to discuss the project and decide on individual work
assignments. - They provide visibility for the project manager’s role in managing the project.
What kind of behaviours are part of meetings?
Task - Oriented Behaviour: 1. Structuring process 2. Stimulating communication 3. Clarifying communication 4. Summarising 5. Testing consensus Group maintenance behaviour: 1. Gatekeeping 2. Harmonising 3. Supporting 4. Setting standards 5. Analysing process
What are some characteristics of an effective project manager?
- Leads by example
- Visionary
- Technically competent
- Decisive
- A good communicator
- A good motivator
- Stands up to top management when necessary
- Supports team members
- Encourages new ideas
What are some of the characteristics of PM that are not leaders?
Personal flaws: Sets bad example Not self-assured Lacks technical expertise Poor communicator Poor motivator Organisational Factors: Lack of top management support Resistance to change Inconsistent reward system A reactive organization rather than a proactive, planning one Lack of resources
What is emotional intelligence?
Emotional intelligence refers to leaders’ ability
to understand that effective leadership is part of
the emotional and relational transaction between
subordinates and themselves.
Five elements characterize emotional intelligence:
Self-awareness
Self-regulation
Motivation
Empathy
Social skills
What are some of the traits of effective project leaders?
Credibility Creative problem-solver Tolerance for ambiguity Flexible management style Effective communication skillsCredibility Creative problem-solver Tolerance for ambiguity Flexible management style Effective communication skills
What are some of the essential PM abilities?
- Organizing under conflict
- Experience
- Decision making
- Productive creativity
- Organizing with cooperation
- Cooperative leadership
- Integrative thinking
What are project champions?
Champions are “fanatics” in the single-minded pursuit of their pet ideas. Champions can be: creative originator entrepreneur “godfather” or sponsor project manager
What are some of the roles of a project champion?
Traditional Duties technical understanding leadership coordination & control obtaining resources administrative Nontraditional Duties • cheerleader • visionary • politician • risk taker • ambassador
How to create project champions?
Identify and encourage their emergence.
Encourage and reward risk takers.
Remember the emotional connection.
Free champions from traditional project management duties.
Which competencies determine project leader success?
- Understand and practice the power of appreciation.
- Remind people what’s important.
- Generate and sustain trust.
- Align with the leader.
What are some of management choices in the international setting?
- Develop a detailed understanding of the environment.
- Do not stereotype.
- Be genuinely interested in cultural differences.
- Do not assume there is one way (yours) to communicate.
- Listen actively and em pathetically.
How can organisation create project management?
Match personalities with project work. Formalize commitment to project work with training programs. Develop a unique reward system. Identify a distinct career path.
