Are you wondering what skills you need in order to be an excellent project
manager? Well by the end of this video you're going to have the complete
breakdown list of what's going to make you successful, and allow you to stand
out from everybody else, and if you want to slay your project,
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Being a successful project manager means that you need to have a unique
set of project management skills, and i'm going to teach you the tried and true
techniques that I've used over the years, it really has
distinguished me with my clients, and the projects that I've run,
so if you're excited about this as much as i am, let's get to it, and like this
video. Leadership and coaching, what Adriana,
i'm a project manager, there's no leadership in my title but
whoa, that's exactly what is one of the
critical essential skills of project management,
is, even though you are running projects, you are having people who are working
with you, or helping you run those activities in order to reach your goals,
so guess what, it is about leadership, and it is about
coaching, now, being a great leader doesn't mean being a dictator, you really
want to coach, and really understand people,
ensure that things are inclusive, that really ensures great team dynamics,
and so it is important that as a project manager,
brush up on your leadership skills, brush up on your coaching skills, which means
listening, and really try to be neutral as much as you can,
take all points of view, that's what great leaders and coaches do,
but ultimately as a project manager you are going to have to be the tiebreaker
when it comes to decisions that need to be made.
Time and task management, all right, project planning, it should come to no
surprise, you really have to be good with your tasks, and time management, you got
to understand the bigger picture, you have to be able to break things down,
sometimes your individuals on your team, aren't good at that, and so they think
they can get something done in a very short period of time when
you know it's not possible, because you look at things not only from a micro
level, but a macro level, you look at the big picture,
so really hone in on those skills, you also have to
distinguish what is top priority, what is low priority,
and what's urgent, and what's important, because believe you me, sometimes things
are deemed urgent, but they're really not that important, and they can pull people
away from really executing what they need to
do, this is where really good time and task management are critical, and as a
project manager, definitely brush up on that. Planning
skills, all right, now how does this differ than
time management, it is different, because planning skills
takes into account not just timelines, but encompasses everything,
encompasses the large scale elements, smaller scale elements, it looks at
everybody's activity, it's just understanding the grand scheme
of things, so when you're doing project management, you really need great
planning skills, so you have to take a look at the big
picture, be able to take a step back, and combining that with time management
skills is extremely powerful, all right, so definitely combine
those two together, really, really, important. Critical
thinking, all right, this skill is extremely
important, as a project manager, it's going to come
into play practically every day, you've got to look at the pros, and cons, you've
got to be able to really do good analysis on things,
and think of every scenario, and situation, so your critical thinking
skills are important, you do not want to be loosey-goosey, you really want to have
discernment, you want to have intention, and really put your critical thinking
skills to use during projects risk analysis, all right, don't be afraid
of risk, and interestingly enough, I find a lot of people drop this particular
skill set, which is a big no-no, do not do it,
you need to really hone in on your risk analysis skill set,
you have to be able to pull up potential scenarios, and situations,
but you also have to know, through critical thinking, how to analyze them,
because you can't pull, and try to put an action plan, or mitigation plan against
every single risk that you choose, so you
really hone in on your risk analysis, there's some
really good tools out there, like FMEA, even simple matrixs, which allows you to
say, hey, probability of this happening, high, low, and if it does, is it going to
impact the project, high, low, so even
something as simple as that, you just have to be able to think
critically, really look at the risks needed,
and vet them out accordingly. Negotiation, all right, as a project manager you are
going to become an amazing negotiator, because you're going to be constantly
looking at scope, time, and budget, scope, time, and budget, and negotiating that
continuously, there are going to be people who are going to want
to throw additional things on your project, which is going to be out of
scope, there are going to be people who want
you to condense your timeline, or extend it,
you're constantly negotiating, and you're even negotiating your resources on your
team, they may be pulled on something else in your organization,
and you got to pull them back, so really hone up on your negotiation skills,
there's some really good things like priority matrixes which you can do at
the beginning of your project that help to keep
and hone in your negotiation skills, because you use it as
a tool, you say, hey, we've already talked about this, and then you can only focus
on that, because those are things that are set in
stone, so really ensure that you're good with negotiation, and don't shy away from
it, all right, you don't have to, but definitely practice communication,
surprise, yeah like that should be a surprise for you that i talk about
communication, how often do I say, communicate,
communicate, communicate, well, it's a must skill set for all project
managers, having excellent communication skills,
make sure things are clear, make sure you address all issues in the
room, you're listening, because that's a big part of communication
right, is listening to what people are saying around you, so ensure that you
brush up on your communication skills, try to think and listen before you speak,
take in all viewpoints as I said, and that's a really big part of the
leadership and coaching aspect too, so really hone in on
communication skills, and set up some parameters for the rest of your team
around communication as well, now that you know the most important
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