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An Introduction to Season 4 - On Using Communication, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership to Enhance Our Project Management Skills (S4E3)
Let’s get practical. Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome provide example essential skills – communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership – to preview why the emphasis this season will be on the strategic importance of applying the human aspects of project management to the technical skills project managers already possess.
Main Take-Aways
1) Communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership are just three of the essential human aspects of project management. These three provide a practical overview for their strategic application to every day project situations.
2) The essential skill, communication, has many practical facets to enhance the PMs effectiveness on the project.
3) The essential skill, emotional intelligence begins with self before building professional relationships.
4) The essential skill, leadership, is interconnected with communication, emotional intelligence, and many others not named here.
Show Notes
Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: The Strategic Application of Human Aspects of Project Management to our Methods and Process
[0:35] – Let’s get practical. Merv & Tim introduce just three of the many essential skills that they will be developing over this season: communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership.
[1:44] – Communication is the first essential skills example. Some practical aspects of communication:
- Writing skills
- Speaking skills
- Body language
- Acknowledgement
- Noise
Applying these types of communication factors to the management of our projects will help us improve project management methods to achieve meaningful and positive results.
[5:01] – Emotional intelligence is the second essential skills example. Know thyself! Know how you come across to other people. Understand the role of emotions. Understand personal and professional relationships.
[8:31] – Leadership is the third essential skills example. Management keeps the business / project running. Leadership creates professional relationships to be able to influence and motivate.
Not all managers are leaders; not all leaders are managers.
[9:54] – How do we use these discussions regarding specific essential skills (like communication, or emotional intelligence, or leadership) to enhance our project management capabilities?
[10:10] – Communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership are all interconnected in how they are (or can be) used on a project. The same is true when we consider other essential skills that are exhibited through human behavior. These all, separately or in combination, can act to improve the results of our project management. Create an environment where people can thrive.
[17:43] – Communication, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc. are still referred to as the “soft skills”. “Soft skills” are the hard skills. We are changing the terminology from “soft skills” to “essential skills”.
These are just three examples of the many that Tim & Merv will emphasize this season. They will cover them individually week by week.
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By Merv Jersak & Tim JeromeLet’s get practical. Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome provide example essential skills – communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership – to preview why the emphasis this season will be on the strategic importance of applying the human aspects of project management to the technical skills project managers already possess.
Main Take-Aways
1) Communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership are just three of the essential human aspects of project management. These three provide a practical overview for their strategic application to every day project situations.
2) The essential skill, communication, has many practical facets to enhance the PMs effectiveness on the project.
3) The essential skill, emotional intelligence begins with self before building professional relationships.
4) The essential skill, leadership, is interconnected with communication, emotional intelligence, and many others not named here.
Show Notes
Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: The Strategic Application of Human Aspects of Project Management to our Methods and Process
[0:35] – Let’s get practical. Merv & Tim introduce just three of the many essential skills that they will be developing over this season: communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership.
[1:44] – Communication is the first essential skills example. Some practical aspects of communication:
- Writing skills
- Speaking skills
- Body language
- Acknowledgement
- Noise
Applying these types of communication factors to the management of our projects will help us improve project management methods to achieve meaningful and positive results.
[5:01] – Emotional intelligence is the second essential skills example. Know thyself! Know how you come across to other people. Understand the role of emotions. Understand personal and professional relationships.
[8:31] – Leadership is the third essential skills example. Management keeps the business / project running. Leadership creates professional relationships to be able to influence and motivate.
Not all managers are leaders; not all leaders are managers.
[9:54] – How do we use these discussions regarding specific essential skills (like communication, or emotional intelligence, or leadership) to enhance our project management capabilities?
[10:10] – Communication, emotional intelligence, and leadership are all interconnected in how they are (or can be) used on a project. The same is true when we consider other essential skills that are exhibited through human behavior. These all, separately or in combination, can act to improve the results of our project management. Create an environment where people can thrive.
[17:43] – Communication, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc. are still referred to as the “soft skills”. “Soft skills” are the hard skills. We are changing the terminology from “soft skills” to “essential skills”.
These are just three examples of the many that Tim & Merv will emphasize this season. They will cover them individually week by week.