Help Develop Decision-Making, Critical Thinking & Confidence in Early-Career PMs
This article is based on a PMI-funded research project that is currently being undertaken by Dr. Jessica Borg and Associate Professor Christina Scott-Young at RMIT University. Dr. Borg is also a volunteer member of the PMI NextGen Outreach Committee. They are currently conducting interviews for their research and looking for supervisors and mentors of early-career PMs (as well as young PMs) to participate in research focus groups. If you’d like to be involved, please get in touch with them via community.pmi.org or LinkedIn!
Decision-making, critical thinking, and confidence have been identified as key work readiness skills both by industry and researchers (Business Council of Australia, 2016; Borg and Scott-Young, 2020). These attributes are considered especially important for young professionals as they find their feet in employment.
For project managers—whose day-to-day jobs are riddled with complexity, necessitating the ability to lead in assessing situations and acting quickly—these skills become even more important. We live and work in what is known as a VUCA world—a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment (Mack et al., 2016). So now more than ever, we need to ensure that early-career PMs have confidence, critical thinking and decision-making capabilities.
Why are these skills important?
Research shows …
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