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Stephanie Duenas: my experience as project manager

      Being a project manager for multiple group projects this semester has been one of the most rewarding and challenging experience I've had as a student. From coordinating meetings to organizing research and balancing different personalities I learned that leadership is more than assigning tasks. It's about communication, teamwork, and making sure every voice in the group feels valued. Through our projects on topics like healthcare and families, economy and education, and environment and healthcare, I gained a deeper understanding not only of the subjects themselves but also what it truly means to guide a team toward a shared goal. Taking on the Role  When our class was first assigned the group projects, I volunteered to be group manager. At first, I thought it would just mean keeping each group on schedule, but I quickly realized it was much more than that. I became the main point of contact and even the groups organizer. My main goal was to make sure everyone ...

Blog Post 2: Learning Through Guiding

  As a project manager, it’s easy to fall into  the  responsibilities that I  have to   follow.   Make sure everyone understands what they  have to  do, problem solve any issues, daily progre ss checkups on the groups, etc. I tend to catch myself becoming tunnel vision in those tasks, but it  isn’t  until I take a step back   where I really see the  fruition  of all the  hard work  of  each and every  single of t he group members. The recent group  presentations   were   a great example  of this ! A couple  weeks  back,  all the groups were assigned to do a research project ; they were  assigned to  choose two conjoining topics/issues that are as of right now is affecting society .  Along this, the groups were required to do independent research  on the topics/issues that they choose collectively as a group; create a brochure t hat in  an ...