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Project Team Leadership

image  An Introduction to Project Team Leadership

Project team leadership is the overarching aspect of the emotional intelligence framework for PMs. It is about getting the right people on your team, successfully communicating with and motivating them, and then clearing conflicts and other roadblocks so that they perform and achieve the project objectives. This domain includes the project management competencies of communications, conflict management, and inspirational leadership, as shown in Figure 7-1.

Like the relationship management domain that we explored in Chapter 6, project team leadership builds on the previous emotional ...

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