Effective project managers have the essential traits of being focused, confident, practical, and trustworthy. Communication, internal and external, plays a key role in delivering a successful project. Project managers can adopt the following 7 key communication tactics to take their communication level to the next level!<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re interacting with your team, stakeholders or clients, it is vital to be an \u2018active listener\u2019. And who is an active listener? A person who confirms that they have received the message through questions, feedback, and clarifications.<\/p>\n
It is critical for a project manager to be able to communicate the strategy to his\/her team in a clear and effective manner. This typically involves setting goals, creating plans, and establishing priorities. These are the \u2018who\u2019, \u2018what\u2019, \u2018when\u2019, \u2018how\u2019 and \u2018why\u2019 aspects of a project. It is crucial for all team members to have a clear understanding of the final goal as well as of even the smaller technical priorities. The idea behind defining priorities is to bring all team members on the same page.<\/p>\n
Teams want to work with a project leader who they can trust. They should not suspect any hidden agendas when you communicate with them. Similarly, there shouldn\u2019t be any guesswork or \u2018read between the lines\u2019 situations in your communication. So unless there is a confidentiality factor involved in communicating a piece of information, be absolutely transparent and honest with your team.<\/p>\n
One of the most important responsibilities of a project manager is to build a collaborative working environment for the team members. Team members should encourage and support each other instead of just keeping the focus on their individual activities and responsibilities. There are greater cooperation and sharing of information in a collaborative environment.<\/p>\n
Research on communication and human behavior suggests that nearly 55 percent of all communication is actually non-verbal. Try and use hand gestures, facial expressions, and your overall body language to communicate more effectively with your team. For instance, patting a team member\u2019s shoulder or shaking their hand is a good way of showing appreciation for their hard work.<\/p>\n
While project managers need to communicate with their team members in a clear and precise manner, it is also necessary to demonstrate a friendly and respectful attitude towards the team members. Give them the opportunity and space to contribute their ideas and opinions so that they feel included in different aspects of the project.<\/p>\n
When you talk about the bigger or final vision of the organization with the team members, it helps to understand how the project is aligned with the overall objectives of the business. This can make a significant impact on the effectiveness and success of a project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What separates a good project manager from a brilliant project manager? The answer is quite simple: brilliant project managers don\u2019t just have capabilities and technical knowledge, they are also quite adept with how to communicate with their teams at different levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3346,606,20,308],"class_list":["post-14192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-communication-tactics","tag-effective-project-manager","tag-project-management","tag-project-manager"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":14192},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingportfolio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}