2. Contents
1. Key Skill of Project Manager
2. Project Management Fundamentals
3. Business Management
4. Technical Knowledge
5. Communication Skill
6. Leadership Skill
3. Project Managers need a variety of skill to manage:
People
Process
Technical Aspects
They possess problem solving skill in different areas.
Technical skills but it is not a prerequisite for sound P.M skills.
General Management skills including:
Accounting
Strategic planning
Supervision
Personal administration
But there are key skill that each project Manager should have, these skills
are not exclusive of each other but we can group them in 5 Categories
KeySkills of
Project
managers
4. Project
Management
Fundamentals
Textbook for this course will cover the Science Part of Project
management which will include:
Office Productivity Suite
Microsoft Office
Email …..etc.
Project Management software skills
5. Business
Management
Skills
Business Management Skills:
Skill that are equally valuable to an operation or line of Business manager such
as:
Budgeting
Finance
Procurement
Organizational Dynamics
Team Development
Performance
Coaching
Motivation
6. Technical
Knowledge
Knowledge grained from experience and competence in the focal area
of project with it. Which will help you to have
More credibility
Ask better Questions
Validate the estimates
Validate detail plans of team members
Help solve technical Issues
Develop better solutions
Serves as a leader
7. Communication
Skill
This skill is regarded as the most important skill for project management by
PMI.
This skill include all written communication skills
Correspondence
Emails
Documents
Oral Communication Skills
Facilitation Skill
Presentation Skill
Active Listening Skill (Really Listening and ability to listen with focus, empathy and
the desire to connect to speaker)
Tip: Active listening is one of the secret weapons of effective project
Managers.
8. Leadership
Skills
This skill Overlaps with other Skills and focuses on:
Attitude
Mindset
It also includes key skills such as:
Interpersonal and general People skills
Adaptability
Flexibility
People Management
Degree of Customer orientation
Analytical skills
Problem solving skills
Keeping “Big Picture” In mind
9. Note Skill that are required for Project management to be
successful vary depending on the size and nature of project.
Example:
As general Rule larger projects, technical knowledge will be
less important than competence in the other four skill
categories
11. Questions?
End of Lecture 04!!
Ahmad Rasa Arsallan
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2023-1402
Assignment#01:
Prepare aBrief aboutstakeholders inprojectmanagement
in yourownnative language in 2pages byreading the
stakeholders topic in PMPStudyGuide–Page 4and
Searching throughotherauthentic references.