Impact of Managerial Skills on Innovative Projects' Management Processes in the Domain of Mining Machines.

The article presents the role and significance of managerial skills in the management of innovative projects oriented toward mining machines and equipment for the underground exploitation of minerals. Based on the Authors' multi-year experience gained at the KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology, the shaping of managerial skills and impact techniques are described. Different aspects of impact techniques such as an auto presentation, a presentation, arts of negotiations and business etiquette are highlighted. Group dynamics, a process of team creation, sources of leader's knowledge, settlements of conflicts, "brain-storming", as well as methods of taking decisions are analysed from the perspective of successful management of innovative projects. The article ends with some guidelines to avoid errors in project management processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]