Building your team’s skills and transforming them from a group of individuals into a cohesive, high-performing team is crucial for ongoing project success, but this
Organizations have always faced the need to change. With the current rate of technological change, intense competitive pressures, shift to a knowledge-based economy, and globalization,
Like employees, customers represent a category of stakeholders that every project leader needs to approach with consideration. At some point, nearly all project leaders will
No matter how skillful you are as a project leader, it’s unlikely that you’d be able to complete an entire project by yourself—there are just
The results of your stakeholder meetings and analysis will help you to determine your communication approach and to craft a concrete plan for communication and
Critical thinking is a thoughtful and reflective process that helps establish the validity of ideas or beliefs. It is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to
No project is immune to challenges or complications, so, as a project leader, you’ll have to learn to respond quickly to any issues or impediments
Delegation is an important leadership tool, and project leaders cannot succeed without delegation. While you may be responsible for some project tasks, the majority of
What makes someone a leader? There are multiple bases for leadership, including whether a person is charismatic, possesses a certain level of expertise, or has attained some
As a project leader, you may have to negotiate a number of your project’s parameters (e.g., project scope and/or timelines, risk tradeoffs, process-related criteria, iteration content,
As part of developing their interpersonal skills, project leaders should cultivate strong leadership skills. Project teams need sound leadership from their project leads to complete
Especially important in interpersonal communication is the cross-cultural factor. Cross-cultural communication refers to interactions between groups of people who have inherited different sets of values,