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What Do Team Members Want From Their Project Manager?

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Project teams, want a project manager with the basic character traits, trust, integrity, respect and honestly. But a good project manager possess much more than these basic traits, a project team wants a manager that skilled at:

  • Information sharing.
  • If you don’t know—say so.
  • If you can’t say because you are under a promise of confidentiality—don’t lie.
  • Protection or “executive cover”.
  • Stretch your team with assignments.
  • Recognize a task or deliverable that is well done and give feedback.
  • Provide a clear understanding of what each team member is responsible for.
  • Try to solve problems identified by the team.
  • Be there when the going gets tough.
  • Defend the team from unreasoned and unreasonable demands.
  • Treat the team members like people who have lives outside the office.
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