This document discusses the key skills needed for a successful project manager. It identifies 5 main categories of skills: project management fundamentals, business management, technical knowledge, communication skills, and leadership skills. For each category, it lists specific skills required, such as budgeting, active listening, flexibility, and people management. It notes that the required skills vary depending on the project size and nature, but in general, competence in these 5 categories is necessary for project management excellence.

1. KeySkill
forasuccessfulprojectmanager
Ahmad RasaArsallan
2023-1402

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

10. KeySkill For
Project
Manager
Excellence in all these categories is not needed to be successful as
Project manager

11. Questions?
End of Lecture 04!!
Ahmad Rasa Arsallan
ar25arsalan@gmail.com
2023-1402
Assignment#01:
Prepare aBrief aboutstakeholders inprojectmanagement
in yourownnative language in 2pages byreading the
stakeholders topic in PMPStudyGuide–Page 4and
Searching throughotherauthentic references.