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PJM460 MOD3 Peer Discussion Responses
Please reply to both POST1: and POST2: in at least 200 words
Initial Post:
Identify one leadership role and one leadership trait, describe each,
and discuss its applicability in the Project Execution Phase, using
specific project examples.
My Post:
Hello Class,
Role of Leadership in the Project Execution Phase
While some Project managers are born with natural leadership traits,
some have to be learned to ensure their approaches fit their
personality. These traits are essential for a project to be completed
successfully. Competence is one of those traits. Competence as a project
manager’s skill refers to the ability to execute activities within the
project environment to the recognized and expected standards (Lussier
& Achua, 2015).
Of all the project phases in the life cycle, the execution phase is
one of the longest, most time, and energy-consuming phases in the
project cycle phase (PMI, 2017). The project manager’s role in this
phase is overseeing activities in managing time, quality, costs,
changes, and risks. Also included in these activities are in managing
procurement, customer, and stakeholder acceptance as well as
communication (PMI, 2017). Therefore, competence mostly applies to the
quality management role of a project manager in this phase. In assuring
quality, auditing of the quality needs and the measurements from quality
control is done. A competent PM leader ensures the audited elements
utilize the operational definitions and meet the quality standards.
To illustrate this, the project manager may develop a checklist to
assess activities and compare them to the standards. This shows a
manager is highly dedicated to ensuring the activities in the project
management phase are in line with the overall goal of the project. One
important benefit for a competent project manager in quality assurance
is risk management. Ensuring quality outcomes eliminates avoidable risks
in project management.
References
Lussier, R. N., & Achua, C. F. (2015). Leadership: Theory, application, & skill development. Nelson Education.
Project Management Institute [PMI]. (2017). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (Links to an external site.) (PMBOK ® Guide — 6th ed.). Newton Square, PA: PMI Publications.
POST1: (A question from the professor concerning my post; please reply)
Hi Darby,
As a PM, what would you do if your team complains that you are being
over-bearing and bossy due to your persuasiveness? What leadership role
and trait would you use to so that your team does not look at you as
being too aggressive?
Dr. Harrison.
POST2:
Hello,
class. The leadership role I would like to discuss, which definitely
fits within my current day to day professional scope, is the Monitor
leadership role. The Monitor Leadership role “watches over processes,
procedures, and systems to ensure they are functioning properly,
inserting himself or herself as needed when dysfunction or
non-performance occurs” (Lussier & Achua, 2016). While a project is
in the execution phase, monitoring performance is essential to ensuring
the project finished within the allotted span schedule, as well as, at
or under budget. Performance being monitored can include all actions,
processes, and procedures falling under the triple constraint umbrella
of schedule, cost, and scope. Monitoring schedule against set
milestones, as well as, understanding dependencies and variances can
help a project finish on schedule. Monitoring all aspects of Earned
Value can help ensure the project finished at or under budget.
Monitoring physical processes, quality can help ensure scope creep does
not occur. Monitoring all aspects of a project together forms a
synergized symbiotic system, driving decisions to be made from data.
Successful and effective leaders and managers find themselves practicing
multiple leadership roles and traits, relative and dependent upon the
situation they are involved in. No leader or manager should base their
style around, nor limit themselves to, one specific leadership traits.
The need to practice multiple leadership traits can be determined by
many factors, including political, regulatory, customer led,
cross-collaborative, team motivating, and process-driven.
In my professional career as a leader and manager, I progressed from a
Team Lead, to a Supervisor, and now a Functional Manager. Multiple
leadership roles / traits were practiced in each role, though other were
/ are more prevalent, given the specific professional role. One of the
most important traits, no matter the position, is it always important,
as a leader, to maintain one’s humility while being empathetic.
References
Lussier, R. N., & Achua, C. F. (2016). Leadership: Theory, Application & Skill Development. Australia: Cengage Learning.
Project Management Institute [PMI]. (2017). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (Links to an external site.) (PMBOK ® Guide — 6th ed.). Newton Square, PA: PMI Publications