They come in frugal, sure, and surprisingly capitalist, depending on what side of the fence you’ve decided to get off on lately: clients, customers, and marketing. Realistically, it’s probably the other two groups that have driven our all-important project manager as well as project management styles! You will learn more about this on a PRINCE2 Course belfast.
Unfortunately, many of the returning Associations have been tearing themselves down to get back up again, so we see a few new ones appearing. Some of the older ones have been particularly worth pursuing, and others just have been kicking around for some time. In any event – if you are thinking about a career in project management, this is, as far as I am concerned, the time to start!
Initially (and why not, when the job’s been relatively cheap to start with, and one of those new Associations that’s decided to get-go in any case!) and especially in less-profitable circumstances, project management is all about problem and solution, designing positioning and, of course, finances.
As a project manager, all your effort, attention, and energy is going into the first two. The ideas are there, the strategies have been tried, and the solutions are in place – now it’s time go-for-it!
Stepping up to the role demands natural energy, a certain degree of sheer willpower, and plenty of enthusiastic confidence. Get unwillingly into it, and all will become even better! It takes the know-how to be able to select and implement the appropriate techniques and techniques.
The role of project manager requires good emotional intelligence as well, especially the leadership stuff! Managers need charisma, speak at packed meetings, talk at lone cars and other occasions, and lead from the front. Everyone needs an old-school project manager could ask for to handle things on the ‘ difficult side.’ Making such decisions will often entail obstacles, and no-one ever said it couldn’t be done until you can do it.
The benefits of a project manager cannot be overstated. Most definitely, the prestige opportunities and international recognition are essential – if anything, even more than that.
In any event, a good project manager is also a wealth of helpful knowledge and experience and can mentor others.
The best opportunities are often in less competitive areas of the project universe; they can be between your project and another – both may be at the same time, or covering entirely different aspects that inevitably need to be comparable with yours; there could be cross-training and cross-involvement opportunities and compensation plans, that collectively will make handling the ‘critical’ issues of the project far more fruitful.
It’s an excellent role to be in. It could be that you need to be a specialist in a specific area; you have to be able to identify your place or even repeat precisely what’s been done before.
Project management is not free of the usual responsibilities that management jobs have. Thus, the trade-off for these management skills and abilities is that you often live very close to the ‘coconut’ and access all critical personnel. This access to so-called ‘gatekeepers’ (usually a project sponsor or senior official of the client or organizations involved), who are in a position to sponsor the project, cannot be underestimated! Proud clients may be worried about their projects being overrun, but so what?
Project management jobs come for the richly rewarding part, and as they benefit, they deliver huge returns overall.
In any case, compared to the all-important homework that one has to do, it’s a minimizing Tanzania attracts a Consequently inspiring pistol never-the-less.
