- Really great project management is very much dependent
upon the project manager having great leadership skills,
and in this video, I'm going to be sharing
with you the essential leadership skills
that project managers need in order to be successful.
And if you need help building the right skillset,
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Now, if you are ready to learn about those leadership skills
that are going to help you be an effective project manager,
let's get to it.
Share the vision, all right,
all great leaders are visionaries,
and it's the same thing
with being a great project manager as well.
Those leadership skills are important.
You want to share the vision of the project.
What is everyone working towards?
Why are they doing it?
Really get everybody on board,
not just for the stuff that they have to do
but the why as to why they have to do it, the vision itself.
So share that.
It's your job to lead your team
to the conclusion of that project,
and sharing the vision is just
a great motivator in order to do that.
Know how to delegate.
A real good project manager
who's also a leader knows how to delegate.
You can't take it all on.
That actually will lead to a lot of failure,
stress, issues within your project.
And like any good leader,
you're not there to solve everything.
You're there to bring people together
in order for their subject expertise
to help you solve everything.
Same thing from a project manager.
So learn how to delegate.
Ensure you give the right amount
of work to your team members
and that you don't take it all on.
So that delegation skill is
really going to not only help you help your team, but
it's also going to ensure that you actually are successful
to the completion of the project.
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Now, what's that next tip? Be a problem solver.
All right, this becomes really important
because I think naturally we all want to solve problems.
But when you're a project manager
and one that's really leading in a leadership,
and a true leadership skill is,
yes, you have to learn how to solve problems,
not by yourself but collectively with your group.
It's part of that whole delegation aspect of it.
So people are going be constantly coming to you.
I got this issue, what's going on?
Do some really good active listening,
guide them to find the solution,
but you yourself have to understand what the problems are
and collectively together with your team,
you can find those right solutions.
So really understand how to properly problem solve,
not by yourself but with your team.
Stay calm and collected.
All good leaders know that if they're calm and collected,
particularly in times of crisis
that that is a really good example, leading by example,
for the rest of their teams.
And in project management, that becomes really important.
'Cause you know what?
You are gonna have things that go off the rail.
You are going to have risks that come to fruition.
You are going to have problems and issues
that you have to solve immediately,
and you have a choice,
and your choice is to either go
into it being, oh my goodness,
I can't believe this is happening.
Or are you calm and collected,
showing that example to the rest of your team
so they can come to you
and realize they're not goingto be yelled at?
That is really important and a great quality
that really good leaders do.
And as a project manager,
a leadership skill I highly recommend that you look
to incorporate is your calm, cool, collected nature.
It really is only going to ensure that people know
that they can trust you and come to you
without getting any negative repercussions
for something that they may have no control on.
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Team builder, having the skillset
on how to build a really happy,
cohesive team is really important as a leader.
If your team is happy, then there really,
or at least connected to know what's going on
and feel like you have their back,
that has a very positive impact
on the outcome of your project,
and any good leader knows they're not going get
to the top by themselves.
They're going to do it with their collective group.
And in servitude leadership, it is all about,
how do you as a leader serve your people?
And that is getting to know them,
understanding their strengths,
ensuring that you realize what their weaknesses are
so that you can lift them up
and give them things that is going to ensure their success,
because their success is your success.
And I have some really great videos
for you if you go search bar, Adriana Girdler Team Building,
on how to incorporate some of those things.
Be selective when you do it, because, again,
we of course want to have fun and do team building,
but not every session has to be a team building session.
It's a question of really getting to know your team
and incorporating them as it makes sense.
Now that you have all of those leadership skills
that are going to help you be an amazing project manager,
my last little shout-out for you is definitely go
to the link under this video and sign up,
save your seat for my free webinar
and those five fab things you need
to know for project management.
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Anyway, see you later.