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    Hey, and welcome back.

    Now that you've learned


    about the roles and responsibilities of
    a project manager, let's discuss the core skill sets that a project manager
    should bring to the role. While there are lots
    of different skills a project manager can
    bring to their role, there are four specific
    skill sets that we think can help a project
    manager be successful. Those are enabling
    decision-making, communicating and
    escalating, flexibility, and strong organizational skills. First, let's talk about
    enabling decision-making. The ability to enable
    decision-making on the team, or gathering decisions from
    the appropriate leader, is crucial to keep projects on task and achieve their
    goals. Lots of the day-to-day
    decisions within a project will likely fall to you and your teammates to
    discuss and agree on. You'll ensure that
    projects stay on schedule by gathering
    information from teammates and using
    those insights to help the team make
    informed decisions. You'll also make sure
    that those decisions are communicated to the
    necessary coworkers, whether that's the immediate
    team or company leaders. For example, you might provide relevant data or feedback
    to help your teammates make an informed decision between
    choice A and choice B. The second skill is
    communicating and escalating. As a project manager, you'll use your
    communication skills in just about everything you do. This might look like
    documenting plans, sending emails about the
    status of the project, or holding a meeting to escalate risks or
    issues to stakeholders. The third skill is flexibility. As a project manager,
    knowing how to be flexible when changes are needed is key. Plans definitively will
    change, even with careful
    upfront planning. For example, maybe the goals
    of your company change, or maybe a member of your team unexpectedly takes a new
    position at another company. A good project manager knows
    that unpredictable moments like these are almost
    always guaranteed. A quote we love
    here at Google is, "The only constant is
    change," and that's true. By staying cool under pressure, you'll be able to adjust
    while helping your team stay calm, too. Finally, a successful
    project manager needs strong
    organizational skills. As you learned earlier, the role of a project
    manager requires using a lot of different processes to
    keep the project on track. Having strong
    organizational skills means having the
    ability to organize these processes and
    the core elements of a project to ensure nothing
    gets lost or overlooked, which trust me, can
    and does happen. To prevent this, you might
    decide to track daily tasks in a spreadsheet or send frequent status
    updates or reminders. There are many ways to stay organized and hone your
    organizational skills, and we'll talk more about
    them throughout the program. To recap, decision-making, communicating and
    escalating, flexibility, and strong organizational
    skills are four core skill sets that are essential to successful
    project management. You can continue to build on these skills by
    becoming familiar with industry knowledge that applies to most project management
    roles. Knowledge of helpful
    tools and templates and familiarity with popular
    project management styles like Waterfall and
    Agile, can help you organize and document the project throughout
    its lifecycle. We'll learn about these
    throughout this program. Hopefully, you feel better
    equipped to explain the core skills a project manager should bring to the role.
    These skills really help enforce team morale and accountability for the tasks of a
    project. We'll discuss this
    coming up. See you soon.

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