Top 3 Project Manager Skills Needed to Succeed

Adriana Girdler

The Most Important Skills to Focus on as a Project Manager Are you overwhelmed with where to focus your energy as a project manager and just want some simple steps?

The Most Important Skills to Focus on as a Project Manager

Are you overwhelmed with where to focus your energy as a project manager and just want some simple steps?

There’s a lot to learn when it comes to project management, so where do you start?

If you’re feeling overwhelmed about being a good project manager, there are three simple project manager skills you can skills you can use to succeed.

Communication Skills

Project managers are always communicating. Whether it’s with their team members, Sponsor, Steering Committee, or anyone else, stakeholders are relying on you to keep solid streams of communication.

What are some simple ways you can ensure good communication on projects?

Establish a consistent way of communicating with your team. When you have one centralized location for your team members to access information, it will be so much easier to ensure that important information never gets lost in the shuffle.

Leadership Skills

This probably doesn’t come as a surprise, but good leadership skills are essential for project management.

“Leadership” is a pretty broad term. So, what are leadership skills exactly?

Having good leadership skills is about guiding and motivating your team, knowing how to delegate and encourage good collaboration amongst individuals on your project.

There are a few easy steps you can take to have good leadership skills, communication skills, PLUS that third project manager skill that we haven’t talked about yet. If you want to know about all that, make sure you head over to YouTube and watch the video I created diving into the three top skills to focus on as a project manager.

While you’re at it, check out my SLAY Project Management course where I give you all the templates, tips, and techniques to implement if you want to be a successful project manager 10 times out of 10 going forward.

– Adriana

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Adriana Girdler is a project manager, productivity specialist, entrepreneur, professional speaker, facilitator, visioning wizard, and author. As President of CornerStone Dynamics, Adriana is one of Canada’s prominent business productivity and project management specialists—helping both individuals and businesses do what they do, only better. She is a certified master black belt lean six sigma with over 20 years’ experience improving how companies work.

She also holds both PMP (project management professional) and CET (certified engineering technologist) designations. She’s a Tedx speaker, and has been interviewed on Global, CBC, CTV, CHCH, 680News Radio, Newstalk 1010, Sirius XM and published in the Globe and Mail and numerous industry magazines. WANT ADRIANA'S FREE ONLINE TRAINING? In 35 min, learn Adriana's 5 project management secrets she use on EVERY project. Sign up for the Free Webinar here: THE FAB FIVE FUNDAMENTALS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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