What Do Team Members Want From Their Project Manager?

KMarrs — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:26:31 +0000

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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What Do Team Members Want From Their Project Manager?