In meeting these responsibilities, personal skills have an important role. Key traits necessary for work of this nature include deep listening, patience, openness to multiple ways of knowing, willingness to accept and respond to criticism, flexibility, self‐reflection, an ability to communicate and facilitate, a willingness to learn, a desire to develop and maintain strong and lasting relationships, and a sense of humor. These are not skills typically associated with an academic training or undergraduate/graduate university education. To manage these challenges in CBA projects, it is important that students are screened for suitability, are brought along for preliminary field visits to explore their capacity for fieldwork, are provided with sufficient pretraining in CBA and decolonizing research approaches, and are exposed to the challenges that may arise when conducting CBA research—all of which were identified by participants as essential to successful student training and development.