Personality is driven through experience so they go hand in hand actually. More experience refines the personality and thus increases the strength of a successful project manager. However to begin with, some basic traits should be natural part of the personality e.g. dedication, strong decision making, team's person etc. Therefore firstly personality is important, no doubt then experience is important to take it to the higher level of successful Project Management.
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Wael Darkazanli , Project Control & PMO Consultant , Parsons - Saudi Arabia
Theoretically, experience is more important, but when applying of work, it will appear that weak manager cannot manage his work and staff if has no good personality whatever his experience is.
Sometimes, strong personality and giving solutions (depending on staff recommendations) with low experience is better than being well expert but not able to deal with your team members.
Experience and personality go hand-in-hand though personality weighs a bit more.
Depending on the industry a Project Manager is in - the individual may not be an expert e.g. Petroleum Engineer in the industry, but will through experience have a basic knowledge of the components of the project. They will have specialists in their field reporting to them. This is where the personality and teachableness of the individual count alot.
EQ is now rated higher than IQ to get the job done.
Project Management is something anyone can start working on, but only few who have the personality and perseverance sustain and their personality in enhanced through experience. Therefore, personality and experience both are necessary for a successful Project Manager.
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Fahad Sattar Mughal , Project Manager ERP and MIS/IT , Intercoil Group of Companies
Experience and personality goes side by side, as long as your experience gains your personality automatically developed as you progress in market. Its a key responsibility of a manager to develop his personality which is admirable.
