The Call for Project Managers to Lead, Rather Than Manage

Top 10 Annual ESI Trends for 2014 , as identified by our leaders and experts in the field , highlighted growing unease with the management practices of ongoing projects , due to disappointing results .


Although organizations invest hundreds of millions of dollars in project management tools , credentials and training , reports the Project Management Institute ( PMI) , Gartner and Forrester continue to show poor performance as a result of project performance project management.
A global survey by the PMI found that the rate of failure of the project 2012-2013 has increased by 10 percent. No wonder then that organizations from all sectors are getting tired of this, and are looking for different approaches to ensure their projects have better results.

Positive action is the adoption of lean methodologies to ensure that each project has a sponsor with a spine - and perhaps more significantly - the deployment of the best programmers Leadership project manager and programmer.


This greater emphasis on leadership as part of the projects has also led to a small but growing number of organizations require their professional project leaders rather than managers .
While this is unlikely to result in a change of the project manager security is an important indicator of the ability to lead a team is now seen as more crucial to the success of management.

Practical Approach

The difference between management and leadership comes down to how the work of employees or team members "and the observed structure . Manager tends to be more rigid, hierarchical process , with emphasis on the professional development of society , rather than the practice of obtaining the job done.


A key component of the leader meantime, he is working as part of a team , maintaining the authority of the decision-making process clear to all team members.

In the context of project management , project managers are unique in the way that his teams compiled .Instead of being recruited and chosen based on how they fit and compliment the rest of the team, a project team is organized on the basis of available resources.A PM must often juggle a lot of contrasting personalities and different backgrounds and therefore must be able to communicate and motivate the team in the vision and objectives of the project .Being a good leader ensures that you are better able to pull a team together and align their members in a common goal in order to get the best performance from them.The project team with more emphasis on the more important, therefore, will have better results than those based on operations.

Facilitating change

Fortunately, this force for positive change can be driven directly by the project managers themselves - those who are not willing to sit back and watch things continue as they are - but instead, want to actively help your organization better manage projects.
Take direction courses ESI and training in the UK have increased steadily over the past four years , indicating that professional project management have begun to realize the importance of leadership skills and experience in addition to the technical and business skills, organization and their careers.


Make things happen and to better facilitate this change , organizations reward these project managers for their maintenance.

The fact is that , despite the poor performance of project success, the project management is a growth industry - but it is increasingly difficult to recruit the right for project managers .
The lack of resources of the applicant qualified There are thousands of places left vacant in project management worldwide .


Organizations seeking and fighting for the leading professional project management do not want their good project manager to leave.


So for those who possess the skills and technical knowledge, proven experience and a willingness to change suitable residence , there has never been a better time to be a project manager - provided they keep their skills - especially the leadership - as sharp as may .