PMI webinar — 10 skills you need to be a Project Manager
Bob Armstrong
30 January, 2024
Last week, we were excited to host a Project Management webinar with PMI UK.
Also known as the Project Management Institute, PMI are a highly respected professional association based in the United States with more than 600,000 members worldwide.
PMI develop globally recognised certifications that enable Project Managers to be more efficient and attest their knowledge and skills. Whether you're a newbie or a pro, you've surely heard of the Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)®, or the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)®, all created by PMI.
Courtesy of PMI, here are the top 10 skills you need to be a Project Manager.
1. Communication
Project leaders need strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively engage stakeholders and the political acumen to navigate a wide range of disparate and often conflicting interests.
2. Leadership
Authentic leadership requires self-awareness, humility, empathy, and the ability to rally your team around a vision and a purpose.
3. Risk Management
A VUCA world—full of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity—needs new tools, not only for identifying and evaluating risks, but also for mitigating and managing them.
4. Visualization
With 80% of our brain dedicated to visualization, the Wicked Problem Solving (WPS) methodology makes it easier to express and clarify ideas, organize information, and collaborate and communicate.
5. Data literacy
Project professionals must be able to extract meaningful insights from data and communicate those insights confidently.
6. Intellectual curiosity
In a world as fast-paced as ours, we not only need the ability to adapt but the desire to understand how the world around us is changing.
7. Stress management
Project leaders need to learn how to de-stress, whether that’s through a physical workout, meditation, or just downtime with family.
8. Objectivity
To see the world as others see it is perhaps the most difficult skill of all to master. Project leaders must be especially diligent in gathering and understanding different points of view.
9. Adaptability
A willingness to embrace new technologies, new methodologies and new ways of working will always separate the winners from the also-rans.
10. Low-code/No-code proficiency
The ability of non-IT-professionals to use low-code/no-code tools to develop apps and software to solve everyday problems is empowering not just project professionals, but workers of all kinds to accelerate change, drive business results and make their lives just a little bit easier.
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