 Hello friends. I am Satish Parjani working as an assistant professor in Department of Mechanical, Vulture Institute of Technology, Sholapur. Today we are discussing on the topic of what are the skills required for project management? Learning outcome. At the end of this session students will be able to understand and practice skills required for project management. First we will understand what are the basic skills and the different skills required are communication, influence, leadership, motivation, negotiation and problem solving. Let us understand first the basics. As a project manager you have to rely on project management knowledge which you have gained from the past experience and your general management skills which you have practiced in your previous or which you have seen while working with project managers. So in short these two skills project management skills your knowledge has to be taken from your previous projects or your previous bosses with or your previous colleagues with whom you have worked out. Ability to plan the project execute it properly and control it and bringing it all successful conclusions. To guide the project team to achieve the project objectives and balance project constraints. So these two important features have to be there in the project manager and his team they should able to plan the project properly, execute it, control it and finally successful closure or means a successful conclusion a successful closure or handover in some project should be there. Let us say in example of SAP when the SAP installation is there a kind of project for new company is there there a successful come after completion a project handover should be there to the company because a SAP implementation persons cannot stay long they will support you hardly after implementation six months or one year depending upon the contract what they have done with your company. Also to guide the project team to achieve project objectives and balance project constraints these are the skills we have to be required so let us understand in depth each skill. In some respects managing a project is similar to running a small business a business we can say there are risks there are rewards financial and accounting activities human resource issues time management stress management purpose of project to exist. Last but not the least you have to bring the ability in the project to manage personal relationship and deal with personal issues as they arise here we are talking of your interpersonal skins which have you have to develop over a period of time let us understand the first important is communication project management spends 90% of their time in communicating either they are communicating via verbal on phone either they are communicating via mail therefore they must have a good communicators not only he should have that skill but his team also should have he should continuously motivate them promote clear unambiguous exchange of information as a project manager it is your job to keep a number of people well informed it is essential that your project staff knows what is expected of them what they have to do when they have to do it and what budget and time constraint and quality specification they are working towards within time budget within money budget they have to work it out so you have to communicate very clearly you have to do it according to if the project staff members do not know what their tasks are or how to accomplish them then the entire project will grind to the halt finally if you are uncertain of what the customer expects of you then the project will not even get off the ground project communication can thus be summed up as knowing who needs what information and when and making sure they have it now the second important skill what we are talking of influence project management is about getting things done every organization is different in its policies modes of operation and underlying culture they are political alliance different motivate motivations conflicting interest and power struggles project management must understand all the unspoken influences that work within an organization who get motivated by what someone get motivated by praises someone do not like the praises in front of every organization someone is more supportive or more influenced by some coupons the company provides some sometimes the negative motivation is also there positive motivation negative motivation both works so we have to understand the influence what project manager must understand his team members how they are getting influence now third important quality what we are speaking is the leadership leadership is very very important quality is the ability to motivate and inspire individuals to work towards expected goals or expected results leaders inspire vision and rally people around the common goals a good project manager can motivate and inspire the project team to see the vision and value of the project he will lead and his colleagues will do what he says and they have to believe on that leader he have to create that impact the project manager as a leader can inspire the project team to find solutions to overcome perceived obstacles to get work done now the next important again we are talking the skill is motivation now these what skills we have already spoken are interrelated with each other so now the comes to motivation motivation helps people work more efficiently and produce better results motivation is a constant process that project manager must guide to help the team move towards completion with the passion and profound reasons to complete the work motivation as I told in the few minutes back motivation can be a positive motivation motivation can be a negative motivation a negative motivation means you are scolding and somebody do not like scolding and so he will he can do the work so once you scold him he will try to finish his work early somebody don't like punishments you can cut some basic perks one day two days something like that so this is negative motivation but managers should ensure that negative motivation should not be too old to resolve generally positive motivations continuously counseling should be done with his team motivating the team is accomplished by the by using a variety of team building techniques and exercise team building is simply getting a diverse group of people to work together in the most efficient and effective manner possible different motivation different motivation techniques techniques are available different exercises are there recognition and rewards are the important part of the team motivation they are formal ways of recognizing and promoting this high level behavior and are more effective when carried out by the management team and project manager consider individual preferences and cultural differences when using rewards and recognition some people don't like to be recognized in front of group others thrive on it next important is negotiation project manager must negotiate for the good of the project they have to negotiate with the top management they have to negotiate with the bottom they have to negotiate with outside world in any project project manager the project sponsor or the project team will have to negotiate with the stakeholders vendors customers to reach the level of agreement acceptable to all parties involved in the negotiation process the next important is problem solving problem solving is ability to understand the heart of the problem look for the viable solution and then make a decision to implement that solution the starting point for the problem solving is problem definition problem definition is the ability to understand the cause and effect of the problem cause and effect has to be done without cause and effect if you are dealing only with the solutions it can root core analysis should be done many times if symptoms are been suppose if the symptoms are being treated then this can lead to a big problems root core analysis looks beyond immediate symptoms to the cause of the symptoms which then efforts ishika our diagram is best example ishika our diagram has to be used once the root of the problem has been identified decision must be made to effectively address the problem root core analysis looks beyond the immediate symptoms to look cause of the symptoms is then efforts opportunity for the solution once the root problem has been identified decisions must be made to effectively address the problem now think the main skill initially required by the member of the project manager is in overseas project what I am talking where the both parties are from different countries is communication true or false yes the answer is true because this is important for project manager and his team because initially they need to understand each other to make up rapport so that they can communicate on the common ground then the further skills motivation negotiations can be applied first they need to communicate very clearly now the references used are from NPTEL and some project management group and controlled by Narendra Singh Himalaya publications thank you