Question

By now, as you have already gone through the basic concepts, issues and challenges facing the profession of Project Management, how do you assess your competencies and areas for improvement to transform yourself as an effective Project Manager in future? Develop a suitable plan of action to transform yourself into an effective Project Manager.

Subject: Project Management

Please write more than 500 words.

Answer 1

The self-evaluation can be done by focusing our long-term career objective, once you want to know what additional skills you want to build then you need to map out a plan together and make sure you’re in agreement. We can do the self-assessment to transform ourselves as an effective Project Manager in future

• What are our biggest priorities right now?
• Am I on track?
• Is there anything I need to focus on?
• What skills I need to improve on?
• Where I need to devote more time and energy?

In my view the formal structured way to assess your competencies and areas for improvement can be done by as follows:

1. Think about the competencies we need to develop for the successful project manager of the future
2. Once you identified these core competencies, review the definition and behavioral examples of the competency you’d like to assess.
3. Where and how have your experiences demonstrated competence in the past
4. Create a plan for the action how to improve these competencies

I have created below checklist as action plan to address the competencies and attributes that I think needs to be developed to become a highly successful project manager

COMPETENCY	HOW TO IMPROVE
General management
KNOWLEDGE	To become a successful and an effective project manager I will learn the concepts, methodologies, practices and vocabulary of the profession. In addition to the case scenarios, always ask for actual past examples to verify real life experience.
Leadership Skill
- sound judgment	I will gather the knowledge of business purpose of the project and ability to make decisions within that context.
- provide vision	I will learn the skill to translate organization vision into a project vision.
- provide direction	I will learn the skill to keep project moving toward successful completion in face of aggressive schedules and discouraging developments.
- issue & conflict resolution	I will learn the skill to recognize resistance and overcome it. Ability to control project issues while avoiding power confrontations. Thinking in opportunities instead of barriers. Also the stress management techniques candidate uses and let them illustrate with real life examples.
- effective decision making	Ability to identify key issues & problems and pick the best choice among alternatives. Ability to make timely decisions and to take action reflective of business objectives.
○ Communication	I will learn the skill to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule, strategies and org structure to stakeholders.
○ Negotiation ○ Team building	I will learn the skill of negotiation to improve the ability to negotiate win-win agreements. Ability to encourage and enable people to work together as a team to accomplish the project.
Project management	I will gain the knowledge of fundamental project management processes, methodologies and tools & techniques and ability to adapt them to organization. Understanding of formal and informal organizational structures.
People management	Ability to earn trust and respect from project's stakeholders. Ability to influence decisions that need to be made to make the project successful.

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