Question

What five personal qualities do you think are the most important qualities needed to be an effective project leader?

Answer 1

Project management is the process by which the project is planned, executed, monitored and work of the project team is controlled in order to meet the project goals and objectives. The job of the project manager is to manage a temporary project team whose role ends once the project gets completed.

The five personal qualities that are most important qualities needed to be an effective project leader are: -

• Dominance and assertiveness - this component makes the leader ambitious and competitive and they work hard to meet their goals and objectives. This quality help the leader to make the employees accept the challenge and give highest level of performance to achieve the goal.
• Communication skill - it is very important to maintain open communication system within the team for the success of the team. Good communication skill helps in ensuring that the roles and responsibilities of the team are clearly set out. It is very important for the managers to build trust vertically and horizontally. People like to stay and work in an environment where they can trust the colleagues and trust the leader. Success of any task depends on the trust factor. This can only be achieved if the manager has good communication skill.
• People management skill - Managers should use their people management skills to guide, support and motivate employees in every situation which would help them to achieve pleasure, engagement and meaning at workplace.
• Conceptual skill - Conceptual skill is nothing but the ability of manager to think creatively and analyze and interpret complicated ideas and solve problems by understanding the relationship among ideas, concepts, pattern and symbols.
• Cognitive skill - This include good analytical, intellectual and decision making skill.