Attention: Are you PERCEIVED as ‘Good Project Manager’?

How is your perception as a Project Manager? Did you ever try finding out? Is it ‘positive’ with your manager? With the customer, and also with your team? How about your perception with vendors? You are doing all that you can do, but still, are you unhappy with the kind of ‘negative’ image of yours? Do you really want to change this? Then read on..

Guys, the difference between perception and reality are what makes or breaks a Project Manager. Hope you all agree that having a positive perception among people around you in a project is super important. Surely, the reality does not have to be contrary, you can be a good PM also, but, it is not only you but even others should think so.

It is a great leadership skill to ensure that people around you are left with a positive outcome and positive experience after interacting with you. Project Managers are the centre of attraction in a project and are surrounded with stakeholders like project customer, the team, senior management, vendors and other interest groups. Having a positive perception with all these people will get you many things done as you have their silent approval with you.

Let us dive deeper on what constitutes this perception:

-         Your team will perceive you as good PM if you are – knowledgeable on the subject, helpful to them in doing their work and also help shape their future career, confident to speak up in meetings and handle unpleasant communications

-         Your manager will perceive positive if you can handle the customer well, can handle project communications and sail through any escalations

-         Your customer will figure out if you can handle the project team, project deadlines and manage all the stakeholders well

-         Your vendors will think positive about you if you can manage their deliveries and payments in time, also give them some respect which many times they do not get

If you observe carefully, in almost all cases, you are expected to be an effective communicator. Communication in various forms, might be verbal or written, formal or informal, has to be taken very seriously. You can look at communications in the following aspects:

-         Communications with people around you at multiple levels, horizontally and vertically, has to be done in a most responsible way, keeping your temperament cool unyielding to pressures

-         Giving respect to all, including those who are contractors or those lesser privileged around

-         Helpful to people genuinely, not just to show off

-         Maintaining integrity within the team, without any favours

-         Confident in front of senior management to speak up if required, and saving the team from any unwanted burden

All these are possible with more self-awareness and leadership abilities. The earlier you acquire these abilities, the earlier you are ready to rungs of senior management.

Let me know if you agree? Try apply this to any of your current issues / concerns that you are facing in your work, and let me know if you have any queries?

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