How Being a Project Manager Can Help you Improve

In my experience the project manager role is one which brings out the best in a lot of people. From a personal point of view it helped me get a more satisfying career and feel that I had moved on to a new level. I think that part of the key is in finding out how your skills can be best be used, while the rest is in working out what new skills you need. The following is a brief list of what I found out about myself once I started managing projects and how it helped me. Communication can be Fun Coming from a business background I was used to rather more narrow types of conversation, where I was asked a question and provided a standard answer. In the project world this isn’t really an option and it took me a while to get to grips with a different way of dealing with my customers and colleagues. It was only when I realized that I could make this a more entertaining part of my role that I become comfortable with it. Once I found out that I could enjoy the communication aspect of my projects it became one of […]