The Project Management Institute breaks down their body of knowledge into Domains, Tasks, and Enablers. Domain is the high level knowledge area essential to the practice, Task is the underlying responsibilities of the project manager in that domain, and Enablers are illustrative examples of the work associated to the task. 

Lead A Team is the second task under the PMI’s first Domain, “People”. Project Management in any way you slice it requires leadership. Sometimes that is authoritative, but often it is through servant leadership and influence. We have all the ability but none of the authority. This can liberating. We can have our own spin on things. We can lead by example. We can support and inspire in ways that those in authority might not

People Domain

Task 2 -Lead a team

• Set a clear vision and mission
• Support diversity and inclusion (e.g., behavior types, thought process)
• Value servant leadership (e.g., relate the tenets of servant leadership to the team
• Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)
• Inspire, motivate, and influence team members/stakeholders (e.g., team contract, social contract, reward system)
• Analyze team members and stakeholders’ influence
• Distinguish various options to lead various team members and stakeholders