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Members Need To Have More Specialized, Technical Skills. Can A Generalist Manage A Team of Specialists Effectively? Yes, They Can

A generalist project manager can effectively manage a team of specialists. While specialists have deeper knowledge in particular areas, generalists have skills in running organizations through technical, soft, and subject matter expertise. Generalists can see the big picture and think more holistically about how a project impacts other processes. They also need varied knowledge to coordinate specialists with different tasks and expertise.

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Members Need To Have More Specialized, Technical Skills. Can A Generalist Manage A Team of Specialists Effectively? Yes, They Can

A generalist project manager can effectively manage a team of specialists. While specialists have deeper knowledge in particular areas, generalists have skills in running organizations through technical, soft, and subject matter expertise. Generalists can see the big picture and think more holistically about how a project impacts other processes. They also need varied knowledge to coordinate specialists with different tasks and expertise.

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Question 18. Project managers must be generalists rather than specialists.

Yet, team
members need to have more specialized,technical skills. Can a generalist manage a
team of specialists effectively?
Yes, they can. According to philosophy ,you don’t need to be an expert in a
particular area to manage an organisation, because generalists will use their skill to
run specialist agencies. Although specialists do not have deep knowledge as much
as specialists, they still have some soft skills, technical skills and skills associated
with subject matter expertise. Moreover, they have a more complete understanding
of the impact of the project on other services or organizational processes which
will be ignored when being a specialist. Generalist managers also can see the big
picture and think out-of-the-box that lead the team to bigger and better project in the
future. Additionally, in specialist team , each member will expertise in different task
requiring the leader to have variety of knowledge to control overall the work.

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