Winning Project Teams – Improving on EQ (emotional intelligence) in leadership, individual effectiveness, communication, collaboration and stakeholder management within dynamic project teams Modern Project Management practices require: Effective team and project stakeholder interactions over processes and tools; Customer collaboration over contract negotiation and Responding to change over following a plan. All these achieved, ideally, by a highly skilled and motivated team in constant interaction at every phase of the project. As a result of this collaborative, customer-centric view, projects require more than technical expertise. It requires soft skills, leadership competencies and an understanding of how to apply those skills in a more malleable, people-focused setting to reach excellence.