"Interpersonal skills of a Project Manager"

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Project Managers perform through others such as stakeholders, project team, own organization. Apart from technical and conceptual skill Project Managers must possess Interpersonal skills. According to (PMBOK® Guide) – Fifth Edition they are:

  • Leadership
  • Team building
  • Motivation
  • Communication
  • Influencing
  • Decision making
  • Political and cultural awareness
  • Negotiation
  • Trust building
  • Conflict management
  • Coaching.

Leadership is the ability to envision a direction and lead a group of people towards a common goal and realize the result through others. The key elements of leadership are respect for others and a sincere belief that people attend their job with the purpose of doing their best every day.

Team building is creating a goal for a group of individuals and make them work together as a group to achieve the objective. In addition to creating goals, the scene for the group must be set; who got the roles, what the responsibilities are, how to communicate internally and externality, how to handle problems, create an environment of trust and mutual respect. Most of all team building is about creating an identity for the team and a collective understanding of purpose.

Motivation is to give positive stimulus that align a persons instrinsic motivation such as desires to explore new things, to seek boundaries for ones capabilities, to obtain new knowledge. Some of the best motivators are

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