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Management and People Skills in Project Management
Career success is more often than not driven not just by management know-how but by a manager's ability to handle a group of people. While we see the importance of management tools emphasized, it is the handling of people that is always at the core of management issues. Given this, it is important that project managers be very knowledgeable with different personality types in order to see a venture to success. How? Let's see below.
The late Dale Carnegie contended that the vast majority of success is due to people skills, whereas only a small percentage is due to technical skills. Jack Welsh, former chairman of GE, has studied many many business schools and has observed that these are relatively low in emphasis on these schools, but are very high on a list of what enables someone to succeed in practice. Technical skills generally enable someone to get into a job and demonstrate a level of competence, whereas people skills generally help someone to advance and perform at higher levels in an organization.
Indeed, most of these types of programs emphasize techniques and concepts that are excellent for doing analysis, but have limited utility in helping people day to day in working on people problems. And since these types of more "technical" roles are often performed by professionals earlier in their careers, they not only provide an opportunity to demonstrate these skills, but also to acquire and demonstrate them along the way. These combined with constant exposure and problem solving will promote career advancement.
Let's take a look at what people can do to continue to learn and build their arsenal of management techniques, and at the same time, build strong people skills.
1. Volunteer in the community. Volunteering in the community,enables one to automatically get engaged with numerous of people with whom you would otherwise never have met. It will be a collection of people that will enable one to interact and practice people skills in different ways and with different pressures than are experienced in the work environment. Skills gained in the volunteer environment will spill over in the work environment, and will provide an exposure that sharpens performance in the work place.
2. Get involved with a professional organization of your choosing, such as a PMI chapter. This gives you the opportunity to see what others in the same field are doing and how they are handling certain issues from their end -- and you will get to practice some of this yourself. In addition, by the very nature of your involvement, you will be looked upon to some extent as a leader within that organization. Further, your will develop some important contacts that can help in your career in a very personal way.
3. At work, don't worry about which techniques you are using. Apply the best that you can. However, above all else, seize the moment to build strong and open personal relationships with those that you engage with. Work towards a reputation of integrity - for being credible, honest, and transparent so that people will trust you professionally and personally.
4. Read books, take online courses, study, attend classroom courses, listen to podcasts, and anything else you can do to learn more skills. As you do this, pick out something new and appropriate for each day to apply on the job and in your day to day activities. This process of continuous improvement will soon accumulate, and you will notice greater personal confidence in handling people issues, and others will notice it in you also.
A new emphasis - number one priority - needs to be placed on people skills. We need to acknowledge the fact that these are the most important, and practice what we believe. Wile people skills are tacitly considered important to on the job success, they are more often than not emphasized in training and certifications. The most important thing we can do, as professionals, is to personally take responsibility and place emphasis on people skills ourselves in our own careers. This can be accomplished by making a special effort each and every day to be cognizant of people issues, to take the best actions we can, and to learn form our experiences. People skills are truly something that we must "own".
About the Author
John Reiling, PMP, PE, MBA is an experienced Project Manager and certified Project Management Professional. John's web site, Project Management Training Online provides online project management training for beginning managers and for PMP exam prep and PDUs. John also writes regularly in his blog, PMcrunch.com .
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Improving People Skills: Get Ahead In Life With Interpersonal and Communication Skills That Work!
Day in and day out, whether at work or running our own business, we have to interact with people. We may talk face-to-face, by phone or Skype, by email, or on popular virtual gathering places like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Never before have we had so many ways we can connect to people, and never has it been so critical to make your presence strong and consistent no matter the platform.
Did you know every relationship begins with you? Every person you deal with will present you with different interpersonal challenges but how you handle them and communicate is up to you. Much has been written about how we can influence our work relationships but for now, let‘s look at a quick review of best practices in people skills.:
• Hear with an active ear. This is an essential skill for workplace communications. Our jobs are demanding, we have a lot to get through in a day and a lot of people to talk with. If we short-change our interactions results can include mixed messages, incomplete information and impaired productivity. When you have to interact with someone, be it the mail clerk or someone on your leadership team, you need to engage in active listening and really 'hear‘what they're saying, rather than jumping the gun to give your response. If you think about it, there really is a difference between ‘listening' and ‘hearing'.
• Speak clearly and be concise. There is nothing worse than someone taking 25 minutes to explain a sales concept or give a debriefing on the next in-house professional development initiative when it could have easily been communicated in less than 10. Everyone is busy and you have to respect their time.
• Be approachable. If you constantly keep yourself at arm's length from your employees or colleagues, you're sending a message that you're difficult to approach. All that does is cast out negativity which, in turn, is counter-productive. Let people know they can come to you with problems and that you'll do your best to be objective and help them find a solution quickly and efficiently.
• Foster team spirit. People resonate with workplace camaraderie. They like to know they're being supported in their jobs. It helps them stay motivated and engaged. Do everything you can to instil this in those around you. A happier workforce is a very productive one.
At the end of the day, relationships are at the core of any business. People within your company are essential to your success, and the people coming to you for service and solutions are counting on the fact that your company stands behind what it says it can do. By taking stock of your people skills and working to improve them as necessary, you can ensure it's a win-win for all.
About the Author
Karen Keller, Ph.D. is an expert in women's leadership and assertiveness training. She specializes in the skills of influence and persuasion, executive coaching, mentoring, sales techniques, management development training, personal life coaching, and corporate training. Discover the Real POWER for Women now! For other great articles go to http://www.karen-keller.com
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