Essential Project Management Skills Every PM Needs to Succeed
Adriana Girdler, CET, PMP
Helping project managers and accidental PMs successfully achieve project goals with an efficient, practical, non-chaotic system | Award-winning Project Manager | Workout & Guitar Enthusiast
Do you have these five essential project management skills?
Wondering what the most important project management skills are? Here are some skills you need to know about, and focus on developing, if you want to be a successful project manager.
1 – Being comfortable saying no
Project management is NOT all about saying yes. It’s easy to say ‘yes’ and commit to everything that others ask you to take on.
But being a really good project manager involves knowing when to say, ‘no.’ This is especially important when it comes to senior management asking you for things that are going to negatively impact your project!
2 – Being able to motivate people
When you’re a project manager, nobody directly reports into you.
Everyone on your project team reports into direct managers and they have tons of other tasks and deliverables they need to get done, including their tasks and activities on your project.
In a perfect world, people would just get their work done because they have to get it done. But the reality is, there are always tons of competing priorities on everyone’s to-do lists.
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If you make your project fun and you properly motivate your team, they’ll WANT to work on your project. It brings fun and lightness to work.
More skills + how to improve them
There’s so much more to focus on than just these two skills. That’s why I made a YouTube video on a few more skills you’ll want to think about as well as ways to improve them.
Head over to my channel with me to continue this conversation! See you there!
I really hope that you found this helpful – and if you did, it would mean so much to me if you would share it on your social media.
Meanwhile, if you really are committed to mastering your next project, do consider taking my SLAY Project Management online course where I show you step-by-step how to successfully manage a project, plus you get access to every template you will need, along with detailed video instructions on how to fill them out.
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