on 1 3 out of 3 points Please list the qualities of an effective project manager. Then identify which one is helps to cultivate loyalties to both the team and the parent company and explain why this quality is so important for a project manager. Your answer should look like this: - The qualities of an effective project manager are: - Xx - Xx - Xx - Xx - Xx - Xx - The following quality helps to cultivate loyalties to both the team and the parent company... - This quality is important for project managers because... ot project management on trust and reciprocity. The next section examines an Effective Project Manager Project management is, at first glance, a misleading discipline in that there is an inherent logic to the process. There is a natural progression from formulating a project scope statement to creating a WBS, developing a network, adding resources, finalizing a plan, and reaching milestones. However, when it comes to actually implementing and completing projects, this logic can quickly disappear. Project managers often encounter a much messier world, filled with inconsistencies and paradoxes. Effective project managers have to be able to deal with the contradictory nature of their work. Some of those contradictions are listed here: - Innovate and maintain stability. Project managers have to put out fires, restore order, and get the project back on track. At the same time they need to be innovative and develop new, better ways of doing things. Innovations upset routines and may spark new disturbances that have to be dealt with. - See the big picture while getting their hands dirty. Project managers have to see the big picture and how their project fits within the larger strategy of their firm. There are also times when they must get deeply involved in project work and technology. If they don't worry about the details, who will? - Encourage individuals but stress the team. Project managers have to motivate, cajole, and entice individual performers while maintaining teamwork. They have to be careful that they are considered fair and consistent in their treatment of team members while treating each member as a special individual. - Be hands-off/hands-on. Project managers have to intervene, resolve stalemates, solve technical problems, and insist on different approaches. At the same time they have to recognize when it is appropriate to sit on the sidelines and let other people figure out what to do. Tarnth is reflected nonverbally in terms of smiling, appropribte eye contact, and gestures as well as verbally in - De flewble but firm. Pr eventr and ovetcomes thar ofect mum ogers. - Manage team veraus ercaniot when evertice. Ar it unafied project tentm whose mermbers solifyaltien, Phe rance, But at the same trme they have to coufe one an feam"Ir resistance to outride ideras. They have to the and the perent organiration. Managing theie and oxtrer contradictions requires finesie: the skilifil nomement hack and forth between opposines 1959). For exaurple, most of the time project managers by increment, and seek cousenvus. There are other triness act is aulocints and take decisive, unilateral action. Balan For example, many manarens have a tendency to alw b a difficult assignrments to their best tearn members. This hal among those chosen ( wwhy an I alsarys the one who gets t? allows the weakicr members to develop the ore who talents fect at There is no one managemicnt style or formula for being ar The worid of project management is too complicated for fo So what should one look for in an efiective project man addressed this question and have gencrated list after list of s! ated with being an effective mantager (Posncer, 1987 : Shenhar to be a succossfu, When rewiewing these lists, one sometimes nor everyone has the richect mandger nequires someone with su trais and slills that right stuff to be an efferetive project man ate eight of these traits. be developed to successfally perforn 1. Efrective craits. Project mie contmunication skills. Communication is criti thetic listeners. need to speak the languatge of different ste 2. Sjstems thinking. phois