Essential Project Management Skills

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MIT School of Distance Education

• Essential Project Management Skills

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• Do you aspire to become a project manager? If so,
  then you must know that pursuing only a
  management course is not enough to excel as a
  project manager, you must master other skills to
  do full justice to the position. Both soft skills
  and hard skills are indispensable to become a
  project manager.

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• A project manager is responsible to formulate a
  plan, execute it, control, direct and close the
  project. Furthermore, the project manager has to
  lead a team of subordinates towards achieving the
  end goals within the intended timeline while
  following the budget.
• Lets find out the essential skills which every
  project manager must possess

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Leadership

• A project manager is the leader of the team. So
  he/she needs to possess leadership skills to get
  work done effectively through the team. Being a
  project manager, it is your duty to not only
  handle the projects in a well-organised approach
  but also guide your team in the right direction.
  For this, leadership skills are imperative.

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Communication

• Project leadership is curtailed without
  effective communication. A project manager is
  usually occupied with presentations or business
  meetings, chats and messages to communicate with
  those concerned with the project.

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• No matter how effectively you manage your team,
  but if you fail to commune the requisite
  information to the people, you cant expect the
  accomplishment of targets. Thus, a project
  manager must be a skilled communicator so that
  he/she can communicate effectively with people
  ranging from projects team to the stakeholders
  and the customers.

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Sense of Humour

• A project manager has to deal with all kinds of
  situations. So, the project manager must know how
  to solve problems and overcome challenges while
  motivating the team to perform under pressure.
  Here, sense of humor comes into play.

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• If you have a jolly nature, it helps you to keep
  your employees encouraged and lighten their mood.
  It facilitates a manager to work smartly while
  finding the best possible solution to the hardest
  of problems.
• Being a project manager, you must also work hard
  to set an example for your subordinates. If you
  have a good sense of humour, you can create an
  affable environment for your team where they can
  work productively.

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Risk Management

• No matter how simple and effective your project
  is, but it will surely be prone to some
  unforeseen risks in the future. Being a project
  manager, you must have the ability to anticipate
  risks and be well equipped to tackle them.
  However, your anticipation cant always be true.
  So, you must be prepared with different processes
  to handle unanticipated issues as soon as they
  arise.

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Risk Management

• No matter how simple and effective your project
  is, but it will surely be prone to some
  unforeseen risks in the future. Being a project
  manager, you must have the ability to anticipate
  risks and be well equipped to tackle them.
  However, your anticipation cant always be true.
  So, you must be prepared with different processes
  to handle unanticipated issues as soon as they
  arise.

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• These are some of the Essential Project
  Management Skills. So, if you are planning to
  pursue a project management course, make sure to
  sharpen your soft skills along with gaining
  knowledge. You should pursue a course that
  imparts technical or management skills along with
  enhancing your soft skills. MIT School of
  Distance Education (MIT-SDE) offers one such
  course. 

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• Here, you can pursue distance MBA equivalent
  course that emphasizes on practical exposure and
  personality development. This correspondence
  MBA course makes you job-ready. So, enroll for
  MIT-SDEs project management course right away!

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