Question

1. Define and describe five key characteristics that are essential for a project leader.

2. Compare the five characteristics from the first question with your current leadership style. Give examples of how you identify with each characteristic. Support your statements with real-life examples based on your work experience or college experience.

Answer 1

1. 5 Key characteristics essential for a project leader for a better and effective management of the project are:

1. Motivational: A leader should be effectively motivated in his own words and actions. A leader should possess all the influential and guiding strategies to motivate the people around him/her. He should be well aware of his employees and how they all can be effectively motivated by providing the best effective and efficient incentive to everyone.

2. Communication Skills: A leader should possess the best of communication skills to make the employee understand the goals and objectives of the organisation and also understand the problems of the employees to convey to the organisation too. He should be well understood by all the employees so he could plan the ideas and tell them about the project details.

3. Decision Making: A leader should possess the best decision making powers. He should be critical in taking the best decisions which are accurate as well as effective to benefit both the employees as well as the organisation too.

4. Initiative: The leader should be friendly and should take the initiatives to make the employees feel homely in the organisation and while working the project. Every employee should feel that they are in an open environment where there decisions are respected and thus, initiative both from the employee as well as employee's side should be taken to boost the morale of the employee.

5. Flexible and Cooperative: At last, an effective leader shouldn't be rigid to his goals. He should be flexible and allow the cooperation from everyone in the organisation to work together as a team. He should consider taking the employees as a part of the decision making activities too and make them train, develop and learn from the organisation.

2. I see myself as a democratic leader who balance out his responsibility and authority with his subordinates. By comparing all the characteristics mentioned above, I find myself following each one of them to effectively engage myself with the employees for their best performance and work in the organisation. By providing a platform where the employee doesn't feel left out, I try to include all the employees to learn, develop and grow their skills and opportunities to become a better person that would eventually help both the organisation and that individual to perform and produce better. By taking initiatives, training and development programs, communicating the skills and effectively influencing them, I used to support my employees in every possible way to make them grow and nourish for the effective management and continuity of the project.