Project Management

Report Desirable Skills to Advance Your Career Amid Organizational Disruption

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

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Today’s large-scale AI-based technology implementations are disrupting organizational roles, and it is affecting your career development. Existing roles will need to change, but the final structure is rarely known.

So how do you advance your career if the roles you aspire to are undefined?

2 Parts of the Problem

When an organizational structure is in transition to something ambiguous, two problems arise.

  1. New workforce skills are prioritized, but communication, preparation and training of those skills are absent.
  2. Leaders desire workers who have the skills to enable progress in a disrupted environment, but they cannot identify these people amid the turmoil.

Your tactics must show you have the newly prioritized skills and get this information to those who can influence your career. Managing your career visibility is critical to your career advancement during organizational disruption.

Example Skills Needed in Disrupted Organizations

Organizational leaders today are looking for a new balance of people and technology. Unfortunately, it is often too early to know clearly what that balance is, so the transition is long and full of ambiguity. You should assume, then, that leaders desire people who have the skills to enable progress to the new structure through a disruptive transition.

You as a project manager have an advantage of being already in a …


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