Active listening and empathy won’t show up on your PMP certification. They won’t appear in a project charter or stakeholder matrix. But they are the difference between a project that delivers outputs and a project that creates lasting change.
Employers often favor candidates who already have real-world execution experience. That leaves many capable professionals stuck trying to break into a field that increasingly expects them to already know how to operate inside it.
Conscious unbossing as a professional’s career choice and conscious unbossing as a leadership philosophy not only have no intersection, but can be detrimental in implementation. When does it become reckless leadership?
We have a relatively new, extremely serious threat to sustainability at both the corporate level and the personal level. It’s from a source that you may not immediately consider: artificial intelligence.
In recognition of World Environment Day, we’ve curated a collection of articles and webinars that highlight how project professionals, industries and PMOs are integrating sustainability into their work. These resources showcase practical approaches, emerging trends, and real-world perspectives.
How much do you challenge the directive? If project managers are always going to go along with what they are asked or told to do, then there really isn’t a lot of point in them being there.
Modern governance increasingly encourages organizations to become more adaptive.Projects are expected to: • Reassess continuously, • Respond dynamically to stakeholders, • Incorporate feedback rapidly ...
Join Georges Buzaglo and Amira Littman for an upcoming webinar: Pushback to Move Forward with Confidence📅 Thursday, June 11 at 11:00 AM EDTIn this session, we'll explore how to:Design effective p ...
What signals help you tell different kinds of AI work apart—and what tends to go wrong when everything gets lumped together?Have you ever been in a conversation where “AI” meant different things to di ...
Most project managers who stall in their careers are not bad at the job.They are just invisible.And the frustrating part? The work is there. The crises averted, the schedules held, the stakeholder con ...
I was recently asked “…what is the difference between ‘lessons learned’ and a ‘risk register’ other than when they are accomplished?” The conversation is still in progress, and I hope to continue ...
As Project Management Professionals, our core job is navigating change, mitigating risk, and driving efficiency. Right now, Artificial Intelligence is reshaping all three at lightning speed.I want to ...
With Generative AI, iteratively refining and optimizing prompts can lead to better AI-generated results. This may involve adjusting the specificity or clarity of the prompt to increase relevance and a ...
I am pleased to recommend to your attention the English-language postgraduate program in project management, delivered in collaboration between Corvinus University of Budapest and PMI Budapest, Hungar ...
Register now for this June 16 webinar, which provides aspiring PMP® certification holders with a practical, forward‑looking overview of the updated PMP exam launching on July 9, 2026. This session breaks down why the exam is changing, what’s new in the updated content outline, and how candidates should adapt their study plans to stay on track.
PMI interviewed executives across industries about the people-related factors that enable—or hinder—enterprise agility. The quotes that follow offer a candid view of the leadership behaviors, mindsets, and organizational conditions that help people thrive in a complex, fast-changing world.
85% of sustainability executives are confident their organization can deliver on its sustainability goals. Only 43% of PMO leaders agree. PMI research surfaces the friction points where sustainability strategy weakens between commitment and execution.
Resilience appears in annual reports, board presentations, and CEO commitments. Delivering it requires something more specific: organizations built to execute their sustainability goals when cost pressure hits, timelines tighten, and trade-offs have to be made under real conditions. New PMI research—Executing Sustainability Strategy: When Ambition Meets Reality—documents the gap
Members of the PMI Thought Leadership Advisory Council share how they've put M.O.R.E. into practice—not in theory, but in the specific, sometimes messy reality of their work. The responses reflected the depth and range of experience the council represents.
As part of the development of the Manifesto for Enterprise Agility, PMI spoke with a range of executive leaders to gather insights on what enterprise agility looks like in practice. Here, Terence Mauri shares how to rethink operating models.
“Done” is one of the most powerful words in agile. It brings closure. It marks progress. It gives us the satisfaction of checking a box and moving on. But what happens when “done” becomes hollow, and the value is nowhere in sight?
Caregiving is adaptive project management in its rawest form. Uncertainty is not the exception; it is the baseline. This practitioner shares how caregiving helped strengthen her PM skills.
Project Management Offices play a critical role in today’s U.S. healthcare organizations—but what do effective PMO structures actually look like in practice?
In a globalized workforce, professional labels such as job titles and age often act as barriers to genuine connection. This one-hour panel discussion explores how to peel back these identities to build human-centric collaboration and achieve project success across all borders.
A valuable opportunity to explore how enterprise agility connects strategy, decisions, and delivery at scale. Featuring Denise Jarvie (Director, Agile Community & Managing Director, Agile Alliance) and Denis Lassance (Regional Managing Director Europe, PMI)
HR leaders today are managing far more than policies and people; they’re driving complex, high-stakes projects that shape the future of the workforce. From AI adoption to employee engagement and training initiatives, success depends on more than good intentions. It requires a proven approach to execution. Maximizing HR’s Potential: A New Approach to Project Execution will show HR professionals how project management can transform the way they deliver results fast, focused, and built to last.
An informal and enlightening discussion with PMI's Regional Managing Director - Europe on project success and how project professionals can use M.O.R.E. to deliver it.
Leaders today face constant pressure, uncertainty, and change. This session introduces the SCARE to CARES framework to help you lead with clarity, trust, and calm when it matters most.
Undoubtedly, AI is transforming project management. Research, including Gartner’s prediction that 80% of PM tasks will be AI-driven by 2030. Some organizations are already talking about AI as a replacement for project managers.
Romona Brown frames enterprise agility as the organizational capacity to not just respond to change, but to genuinely thrive in it. She defines a change-ready organization as one that has built the muscle within its people, processes, and structure to navigate high periods of change, arguing this capability is increasingly non-optional.
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