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 have a background in Law and am seeking to utilize it in handling projects centered around empowering girls and women to champion advocacy for their rights and growth through tech. All six skills of a Project Manager are relevant in my current field of work, and I believe I possess them but in varying degrees. The least would be my negotiation skills. There’s a lapse in finding balance between what is needed and what is being offered. I plan to learn more about how to negotiate better and find that balance during this course.
I worked as a sales associate and I can say I used the communication skills, Negotiation skills and Time management skills effectively. We communicate daily with clients that wants to purchase our products and when given a price they tend to beat the price down but I try to negotiate with them and to assure them that they would get value for what they are paying for, we meet each other at the middle when it comes to the pricing and also time management, when a clients wants the goods delivered on a set date and time I make sure I keep to time and deliver the goods.
When I served as a team lead for an academic project in my department, I used my communication skill the most, and it really helped me clear up several misunderstandings and just keep the group moving forward.
Also, when I worked as a teaching intern at a private secondary school, I had to use my communication skill, my time management skill, my negotiation skill, and also abide by the ethics of being a teacher. These experiences have helped groom me more in these skills and I believe I’ll still need to keep working on these skill because there is no end to learning. Right?
Well, I personally need to brush up on negotiation skills
Currently working as an SM,I’ve learnt that communication tops the list.Having to negotiate the terms of agreement with my team was one I found very hard cause everybody wants to save or make their money.I need to improve my time management honestly,
Thank you for this opportunity to learn DEXA
As someone who currently works as an Operation Customer Expert, communication and time management plays a very important role in my day to day activities. I need to improve in my negotiation skills. I´m glad this is included in the curriculum.
Well, there’s nothing that drives me than a good communication, however am working on getting my negotiation skills right,thereby am looking forward to learning more about the skills here.
As I progress through my training, I recognize the importance of developing every skill required in practice. While each skill matters, I am particularly focused on strengthening my communication and time management abilities—two areas where I see room for growth. I am committed to improving in these aspects and look forward to mastering them as I continue my journey.
As an aspiring project manager, I’ve been able to put communication, time management skills into practice.
Communication helps mutual understanding within the team and time management helps manage the progress of the project effectively.
Developing and sharpening other skills in project management is another step, I am looking forward to taking.
As a newbie In the field of project management, I have been able to communicate clearly and also take out time to have knowledge on regulatory environment