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Project Management Orientation

Behaviors of a Successful Project Manager

Think about successful project mangers you have worked for in the past.  What did they do that made them successful?  More than likely, they possessed the following behaviors in four areas.


Team Building
.  A successful project manager should be sensitive to people and situations.  A project manager should be able to facilitate, coach, provide constructive criticism when required, have the ability to build a team, delegate well, be sensitive to wants and needs, and offer praise when appropriate.

Roll your mouse over each team-building behavior to read its definition:

Delegation (permissiveness): An individual's ability to assign work appropriately to subordinates or team members, within the context of providing a consistent amount of task direction and guidance; note that too much delegation without an appropriate amount of structure can be negative (permissiveness).
Team development: An individual's ability to develop teamwork and improve the coordinated functioning of project team members.
Team member facilitation: An individual's demonstrated ability to coach and develop project team members.
Feedback to team members: An individual's demonstrated ability to provide timely, appropriate, and accurate feedback to team members.
Recognizing performance: An individual's demonstrated tendency to recognize the performance of team members in an appropriate manner.
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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Seven Keys
Case Study
WWPMM
Mentor
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