Talk to Me!
Three Steps to Effective Communication for the Project Manager and Mentor
If you asked a roomful of new project managers
and laypeople, “What’s the most important
part of a project manager’s job?” you’d
probably get a lot of responses like “planning,”
“scheduling,” or “keeping the costs in
line.” But if you posed the same question to a
roomful of seasoned project management
(PM) veterans, you’d probably hear a different
story. They would tell you that the most critical
part of a project manager’s job is communication.
In fact, project managers spend at
least 90 percent of their time talking to their
project team, sponsor, or stakeholders.1
1 Kerzner, Harold. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 8th ed.
(Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003), 232.
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