Project Management Paper

Angela Chen February 08 2021

Essential Team Skills for Project Management CiAM PM501 Project Management Fundamental

Introduction Essential Skills for Project Management

Today's project leaders aren't just willing to reimagine their processes. They're eager to rally their teams around new ways of thinking

- Tomorrow's Teams Today, PMI, 2020

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Essential Skills Collaborative Leadership

Collaborative leadership 

• management practice that aims to bring managers, executives and staff to work together.

• In collaborative workplaces, information is shared organically and everyone takes responsibility for the whole.

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Essential Skills Collaborative Leadership

Why do we need Collaborative leadership 

• Engage Talent at the Periphery • Research has consistently shown that diverse teams produce better results,

provided they are well led.

• Collaborate at the Top First • Good leaders must also set the tone by being good collaborators

themselves. 

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Essential Skills Innovative mindset

Innovative mindset

We need to be

• open to change, • have a bias towards to creativity • an ability to think big • unrelenting courage to challenge the norm • be characterized by speed of thought and action

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Essential Skills Why do we need Innovative mindset

Innovative mindset

• Innovation helps organizations create and improve processes, products, services, and experiences for their members, customers, staff, and audiences.

• Technology helps us turn innovative ideas into reality, but innovation is powered by organizational cultures that support and nurture an innovation mindset.

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References

Tomorrow's Teams Today, PMI, 2020 https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/pulse- indepth-tomorrows-teams-today-11941

Are You a Collaborative Leader? (August 2011). Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2011/07/are-you-a-collaborative-leader

5 key steps to creating an innovation mindset (May 2018). https:// www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2018/5/5-key-steps-to-creating-an-innovation- mindset

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