One of major requirements in a project is managing a diverse group of stakeholders and their expectations including a major stakeholder -client. The stakeholders' expectations can be at crossroads many times. This necessitates that a project manager needs to have a sound EQ.
A project environment where there are diverse stakeholders, the project manager needs to have a very sound EQ. A more internally focussed project with lesser number of stakeholders and work on some new area may probably need a higher emphasis on IQ.
However, at any time, an above average EQ is basic need for a successful project manager. Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Most important to me are the 4 human intelligences. The physical and the spiritual to join the Emotional and Intellectual Saving Changes...
Dana BrownleeCorporate Trainer| Professionalism Matters, Inc.Atlanta, Ga, United States
EQ - typically most issues aren't that intellectually taxing and the PM has SMEs who should be experts. The relationship skills become more important as a result in my view. Saving Changes...
Hot topic on EQ these days, for me it definitely deserve more weight than IQ. The reason being having high IQ doesn’t guarantee project success. Saving Changes...
Raj Shekhar BidikaMaintenance Engineer| Reliance Industries LimitedJamnagar, Gujarat, India
I think EQ is more important than IQ as per my experience. People are everything, and if you cannot understand their emotions and get them to work, IQ won't apply. Saving Changes...
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