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Today's business challenges demand a lot from project managers, and leadership skills are at the top of the list. Evaluate how well you're doing when it comes to these 13 core leadership competencies. It's never too late to launch a self-development project.
Are you tired of working on middling projects, receiving standard performance reviews and facing few opportunities for career advancement? Many project managers say they are, but they need to understand something before the situation changes. Earning a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and completing a few successful projects are not enough to become a top-performing project manager. There are new business challenges today — the outsourcing trend, the focus on strategic alignment — that are separating traditional project managers from project leaders.
Think of any number of challenges you face on a daily basis: Motivating teams that are often harder to mold and direct than those in the past; introducing new services more swiftly to keep up with competitors; managing change in all its variations — regulations, methods, policies; and meeting higher customer expectations.
Project managers with the traditional management-and-control style are not succeeding in this new business environment. In fact, it is one of the reasons, among others, that many companies have let go of internal project managers in…
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