What methods do you use to communicate and collaborate with customers and other project stakeholders to ensure the success of the projects you work on?
Communication and collaboration skills are important for any project manager. Interviewers are likely to ask you questions like this to confirm your expertise in this area. They also gauge your communication skills based on how you answer the questions they ask. If you claim to be a good collaborator and communicator, you should be able to demonstrate this with your answers and the way you present them.
"The successful outcome of a project depends heavily on effective communication with all the stakeholders as well as the internal project team, and collaborating with this same group of people to achieve the desired outcomes. My approach to this is to meet with the project stakeholders early so that everyone is on the same page as to what the expectations for the outcomes of the project are. I then provide frequent updates as to the project's status and constantly solicit input and ideas from everybody. The last thing I do is to review the project outcomes prior to the final sign off to make sure that we have achieved the results the stakeholders expected."
