Take a moment to contemplate your current employment or a profession that you find intriguing.
Even if you don’t perceive yourself as a project manager, numerous job roles nowadays necessitate project management abilities.
Examine the six areas where project managers need to cultivate their skills. Which ones do you believe are essential for your job? What areas do you need to improve upon?
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Time management
- Understanding the regulatory environment
- Ethics and adherence to standards
- Continual professional development
Ponder potential steps you might consider taking to bridge these skill gaps and contribute them to the discussion group.
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I’m Kolawole Oluwatayo
A Student -Nurse, in this profession communication,time management and ethics & Standards is highly needed, setting your priorities right and knowing how to communicate with patients and their relatives, actually i am still learning to be perfect in this skills and in every other skills mentioned above.
Adebayo Funke Blessing
12 June,2025. 10:30am
In my current profession,communication is the key,time management is,ethics and standards and negotiation are the most important.
my current profession requires communication and perfect time management and I’m good at both. Communication makes works process easier while time management is to put things in order that’s why I always have a to-do list in order to meet up with deadline and satisfy my clients.i need to improve on other skills like negotiating,continuing professional development and ethics.
In my current profession, communication and time management is very important skill to master. Communication makes works process easier to prevent assumption, while time management skill is also important, in order to carry out deals to meet deadline and client expectations. I also need to improve on other skills like negotiating and continuing professional development
Communication, time management, ethics and standards, and negotiations are the most important
As a project manager, effective time management is critical for delivering projects on schedule and maintaining team productivity.
Here’s a structured approach to mastering this skill:
1. Prioritization Techniques
Categorize tasks into:Urgent & Important
Important but Not Urgent (Schedule, e.g., planning)
Urgent but Not Important (Delegate, e.g., minor queries)
Neither (Eliminate).
2. Tools & Systems
Digital Tools: Use apps like Trello (Kanban), Asana (task tracking), or Microsoft Project (Gantt charts) to visualize timelines.
Time Blocking: Allocate fixed slots for deep work.
Automation: Automate repetitive tasks
3. Delegation & Team Coordination
My current job needs communication, time management and negotiation the most. We work with truck drivers from different companies and cities, so they speak different languages so it is important to communicate in English so that we can understand each other. Also we have to negotiate sometimes because they come and they say they are in a hurry so we must make them understand the rules that we work under that when ethics and standards comes in. We have to manage time very well too because they don’t have to wait for us, they must find us waiting for them.
Olufemi Esther Atinuke
Team 4
Regardless of whatever field we find ourselves, the skills that really show the indepth of how much the work is valuable to one is time management and effective communication.
As a VA one should never loose these skills.
As a project manager communication skills, negotiation skills and time management is very essential. Meeting the deadlines of a project and also to be able to communicate your needs and goals
Olorunsomo Damilola
Team 8
All six areas are key for me, but I believe time management and negotiation are ones I need to improve on