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  • Dkonara921 replied to the topic Qualities of a Manager in the forum Project Management Application: Clinical Trial 6 years, 5 months ago

    Ideally, you would want to have any positive quality (e.g. work ethic, positive attitude, intelligence) as a project manager. Even though there are certain skills and qualities that may be less important than others or are just simply not relevant to project management, having a skill or positive quality can never hurt you at all. For my case, I think that I’m very analytical so I pay careful attention to small details and try to be as thorough as possible. For project management, Dr. Simon emphasized that interpersonal skills and communication skills are essential for this type of job. Knowing and empathizing with other people is essential because people are working under you on the project. Therefore, knowing your workers is always a plus and having the ability to read people can become very handy. Knowing as much as you can about your workers is always preferred because you can judge whether or not an individual is the perfect fit for a particular job or whether or not a co-worker should be involved in your project at all. In order to improve, I want to read more books on social skills as much as I can and learn how to apply them in my life through practice. Just being more social is not the best way to learn efficiently. I think that I have the ability to learn technical skills but I am lacking in the social skills.