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 am Moses James, cohort 23 participant team 6. As an internal Auditor, the six points are of great essence for my work flow but the area that I need to improve upon is understanding the ethics and standards as well as the regulatory compliance.
My name is Miracle Ohaka; I am a Virtual Assistant and Pharmacy Assistant, Communication, time management, knowledge of the regulatory environment, ethics, and standards, and continual professional development are vital in my practice.
I’m Chukwufumnanya Okonji, Cohort 23, Team 9.
As a Virtual Assistant, communication is a key skill I use daily, whether I’m responding to emails, or coordinating with clients. Time management is also vital because I handle multiple tasks, set priorities, and meet deadlines. Ethics and standards play a big role in my work too, since I handle sensitive information and always strive to be trustworthy.
Regardless, I do have some skill gaps. I don’t use negotiation often, so I plan to improve by learning better persuasion techniques. I also have limited knowledge of the regulatory environment and I know that continuing professional development is necessary for growth, and I’m already working on this by taking this boot camp while planning to explore more learning opportunities. I can continue improving my skills and becoming even better at what I do.
In my role as a Civil engineer, the six areas are very key for me to be able to effectively do my job.
I’m lawal Yusuf, cohort 23, in my current role as a customer service executive. I will like to learn more about the communication skills,continual professional management and ethics and adherence to standards. Cuz with this I think I will be able to grow beyond my expectation and learn how to manage, team,customer and project within the budget.
My current role as a customer support executive having good communication skills, Time management, Ethics and adherence to standards and Continual professional development are very essential both when relating with team members and customers. However, I do need to work on my Negotiation skills and also Understand the regulatory environment.
I need communication, knowledge of the regulatory environment, time management, ethics & standards, and continuing professional development. These skills are vital irrespective of what industry you are. Consistent learning and applying these skills will contribute to one being a successful Project manager.
My name is Paul Obaika, Cohort 23 – Team 8.
My current job requires great communication skills, time management, ethical standards and attention to details. I believe the project management course will help me achieve that and beyond and so far it’s been a great experience learning from Renowned Project Managers.
I am Samuel Abiodun Olugbodi, cohort 23, the skills I believe are needed for me to be effective are communication, time management and Negotiation skills in other to be able to reach out to my client and also my teammates. Skill gap, for now I can say is the negotiations aspects, I hope to take courses and trainings to improve on that aspect so as to be effective enough.
Definitely I need communication, Time management
All the skills are very important to my success in this career but I can see the need to work on my time management skill, prioritizing what is important and urgent. Knowledge of the regulatory environment is also a must skill to possess. Communication skill is very germane for the success of the and project.