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What are your best tips for a New Project Manager?

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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Can you pick top 3 tips only?
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Habib Alsaffar Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Kevin, Nice topic to discuss,

I think and sure all will agree with having good communication with all because if their is a gap entered in between worker and Project manager, work will not be completed as expected.

sharing knowledge and express staff experience and understand their work professionally.
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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
1) Get to know the skill level of the team. This will help you with your WBS. Macro or micro management.

2) Your expectations - Style of status reports to fill out and frequency for status reports.

3) Project Management approach. - Waterfall, Agile, etc.
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
communication, negotiation, problem solving, a good experience, strong character, respect to his team, ...etc
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Listen more than talk, build rapport with stakeholders, escalate as a last resort.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
1. See value through the eyes of your customer
2. People first
3. Risk matters

Kiron
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Sonali Malu Maharashtra, India
1. Try to be SME of the domain
2. Be strong on creating and implementing risk mitigation strategies
3. Observe PMs around and learn
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Kathy Castle Author at https://www.projectcubicle.com/| Freelance Tx, United States
Kevin,
We can discuss skills needed for project managers rather than tips.
Below are the 7 skills from my perspective
- Technical
- Leadership
-Communication
-Negotiation
-Strategy
-Planning
-Organization
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1 reply by Oba'a bilo'o Étienne patrick
Apr 20, 2018 2:34 AM
Oba'a bilo'o Étienne patrick
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thanks lot katy
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Dinah Young Project Manager / Software Asset Manager| Prince William County Springfield, Va, United States
As others have said communication. This will be with your team and with your stakeholders and with upper management.
Learning. You should always be learning new information about your industry, project management skills and your organization.
And one thing new project managers often struggle with is to use their team properly. Many try to do too much of the work themselves instead of delegating. And some do not delegate properly. You need to know your team to know who is the best person for each task.
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Earl Lewis Senior Project Manager| University of Utah Salt Lake City, Ut, United States
#1 - personality - be humble and understand how you fit into the teams you manage
#2 - communications skills - listen, speak only when you can add value, know/learn how to write clearly
#3 - flexibility - as they like to say in the military, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Go with the flow (see #1 above).
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
I think most important is communication skills, so here are my top 3:
- Listening and communication skills
- Know your strength
- Know your customer
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