Play Now: This episode is sponsored by the PMP Exam Simulator: Niraj Kumar, PMP Leadership in project management is an important topic these days. And if you are like most project managers then you may have fallen into project management a bit by accident. And then, after you have successfully delivered a few projects, suddenly everyone tells you that you must improve your project management leadership skills. Effective project management, they say, depends a lot on your project leadership. And so once you realise that you have to transform into a project leader then leadership training will be part of your ongoing professional development, which is where our guest can help. Niraj Kumar (www.leadproje.com -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/thenirajkumar) is a leadership expert and proponent of self-growth through continuous learning. Together we explore his view on leadership, how these skill help you as a project manager, how they help you when dealing with senior executives, and as always we include a lot of tips on how you yourself can improve how you approach project management and leadership starting today. Leadership Checklist As part of this interview Niraj offers a free leadership checklist to all our listeners. Please click here to sign up and download your checklist... Below are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Podcast Introduction Coming Soon... Above are the first few pages of the transcript. The complete transcript is available to Premium subscribers only. Please subscribe to our Premium Podcast to receive a PDF transcript.