Importance of Soft Skills in Project Management

Journal Title: International Journal of Scientific Research and Management - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 7

Abstract

Project management is one of the areas of business management, where a project manager has the sole responsibility to manage the project effectively. So, project manager needs a number of skills to handle the project. Though before becoming a project manager he acquires all the formal educations and gathers experiences, he needs mana gerial skills which can be otherwise said as soft skills. It refers to some non - technical skills such as leadership, communication, coordination, decision making, negotiation, etc. Although these are not directly related to the outcome of the project, they have a lot of importance in all the phases of a project. Hard skills or technical skills like creating work break down structure, preparing schedule plan, preparing budget plan, etc. are very important but the output of such plans cannot be incorporated w ithout the above mentioned soft skills.

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Dr. Anupama Jena

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Dr. Anupama Jena (2017). Importance of Soft Skills in Project Management. International Journal of Scientific Research and Management, 5(7), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-314701