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Leadership

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Overview

What Is It?

Project Manager is the one to deliver – and he needs his team as he needs the support of other stakeholders to reach it. Leadership is the way to get all on board to pursue convincingly the common project goals.

Who Does It?

Project manager is the man in charge, yet in many cases other team members may take lead, too.

Why Is It Important?

Projects are unique and thus predestined for risk and uncertainty. All stake holders and team members expect from project manager the competence and guidance towards successful project termination and delivery. Project manager is an amplifier of team’s productivity: with positive, but in less successful cases – negative impact.

What Are the Steps?

Resolve pending issues first. Then proceed along LEAD: “L” for Launching the Leadership: evaluating where is the project and who are the team members. Elaborate the right leadership strategy; “E” for empowerment of the team; “A” for acting – by applying the right leadership style; and “D” for delivering dealing with the uncertainties and right decision taking. Check if Change Request or Knowledge Management shall be addressed.

What Is the Work?

In holistic cybernetic view of leadership, the relationship with team and stakeholders determines the fate of the project and project leader. So major effort is to identify the initial state and continuously to adapt the leadership style to the current team member’s behavior. Project manager must be androgynous manager and leader; he balances linear and non-linear systems. Challenge is to find the balance and despite all obstacles to deliver the results. Social responsibility demands you to care about the leader qualities development of your team members.

How Do I Ensure That I Have Done It Right?

Be competent, profound and authentic. Do good job in creating the Big Picture and successful leadership strategies. Be sensitive to people to win and engage them; adjust your leadership style to their dynamic behaviour; develop your sense making intelligence and take risk of intuitive decisions.

Goal

The goal of leadership is to create and mould the mutual relationship process with all project stakeholders, team members in particular, towards project goals accomplishment.

Process

The outstanding issues shall be treated first; at least periodically (e.g. L-Timer ® 6:00). Otherwise, your leadership process, which may be triggered by few other processes, too, begins with launching activities, followed by team engagement, active acting and warranting of the delivery. If you consider it suitable – share your experience with others: through CM or KM

Leadership diagram

Lecture notes

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