A general online look at job openings for project managers (PM) lists a variety of skills ranging from interpersonal leadership skills to math-based analytical skills such as time and budgeting, or any skill that will yield a progressive workflow. Leadership skills require a PM to assign tasks and resolve conflicts among a project’s participating members, which can include assigning a difficult task to new personnel in an attempt to get them trained for future tasks, or assign a simple task to a well-trained professional in hopes of quickly moving onto the next assignment. Although an untrained individual may initially cause grief to a manager, it is their long-term acquisition of skills that a PM should take into consideration in order to have more availability in skill set among a staff for future tasks. This may also lead to improved time management skills of a PM as well since developing a highly-trained staff will allow tasks to be completed more effectively and efficiently.

As mentioned in lecture, project management in corporations are the foundation to making the organization a successful one assuming that the hired PMs are competent in general skills such as monitoring and allocating resources, maintaining communication between departments, and managing risk. The purpose of project management however, is to capitalize and profit off an idea that has not been done before by arranging a “series of tasks that when completed, creates a new object or capability”. In this case, how does an organization decide on hiring a PM for a project that has never been done before? For example, what kind of background experience would the hiring organization look for in a PM for a product/process that treats various forms of cancer without the use of chemotherapy? In what ways might a corporation handle a project on the verge of failing and what preventative action can be taken to make an unsuccessful company a successful one?

Abeid, Cesar, “6 Essential Skills for Project Managers” (2015) liquidplanner website