Facilitation Skills for Project Managers

Posted by Ruth Cundy on Mar 28, 2022 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off

Project managers are often faced with challenges that have nothing to do with managing projects and these challenges often apply within the human domain of managing the people and the process around the project. Effectively managing the people and their interactions becomes almost as important as effectively managing the project and it could be argued that the former is as rewarding as it is strategic. Facilitation Skills for Project Managers   enables project managers to effectively facilitate group/team interactions, so they are focused on achieving project success. It very much focuses on the team and is collaborative in its nature.  This is an active learning experience for all concerned and project managers who have learnt facilitation skills reap the benefits of: Enabling exchange of information, Ensure projects are moving forward, Collaborative working to remove barriers and reach consensus (trust) Being a Project Manager and a Facilitator requires varying skills and expertise and we are beginning to see that when combined, they really add value to not only the organisation but also to team cohesion. Where most elements of a project operate around and contribute to the goal, the facilitator can act as a component part of the project ‘Trinity’ where if you remove one element, it will collapse.

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Facilitation Skills for Project Managers