For effective project management, you need to clearly define the measures for success, like delivering business values, meeting deadlines and budget expectations, satisfying clients’ demands and much more. Once success metrics are defined, you need to implement effective practices that balances hard and soft skills while avoiding common pitfalls. But it is not as easy as it sounds.

As a project manager, you need to carefully learn about hard and soft skills needed for successful project completion. Neither soft skills nor hard skills are more significant than the other, you have enough knowledge about both skills and know when to use any of them in order to achieve maximum efficiency and productivity.

Let’s have a look at this infographic that clearly defines what are hard and soft skills, how a project manager can improve these skills and how balancing both skills can contribute to project success.