Leading from where You are

Leadership is every man’s calling. It is God’s original plan that man rules over the works of His hands. Leadership is man’s natural mandate. The mandate is still more relevant in our days now more than ever before. So wherever you find yourself, the instinct to lead is always inherent.

Leadership has been generally defined as the ability to influence others in achieving worthwhile goals. While many myths has been built around the subject leadership, this write-up is intended to help readers in realizing that not only can they lead, they can do it wherever they find themselves in life; most especially in corporate organizations.

The big and controversial question has always been “are leaders born or made”? While it is generally agreed that leadership traits are inborn, many have come to agree that leadership can be learnt.

Project Management and Leadership Skills

The leadership development level of a project manager is important to a successful project. Effective leadership skills must be used as needed over the project life cycle.

Project managers are responsible for project delivery and consequently are uniquely placed to make a positive or negative impact. Whilst understanding project management methodologies, tools, and techniques is important, the critical test is being able to apply them in practice. This is where leadership skills and behaviours become critical -- as the project manager leads the project team to meet the objectives

Project Management and Leadership: Equal Partners for Project Success

The Four Project Management Processes of Leadership and Management

“Leaders are people oriented, whereas managers are task oriented.

Leaders inspire, whereas managers organize.” - The Realities of Management: A view from the Trenches, Royce L. Callaway

We as project management professionals are all aware of the management aspects of our profession. These include the tasks, processes, and sequences of steps that we all know by heart. However, client feedback and our own self-evaluations or “lessons learned” tell us that we should be addressing an often neglected thou equally important demand of our profession. That demand is Leadership.