5 Skills PMs Must Improve

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A new benchmark study identifies the top five challenges for project managers and finds that they are all related to organizational issues, including managing benefits realization, planning strategically, championing and managing change, managing project risks, and communicating.

What drives project success? Research has consistently shown that it’s having an effective project manager. Results from PM College’s latest research, “Project Manager Skills Benchmark 2015,” confirms this, showing that organizations with highly skilled project managers get significantly better project results.

The survey also reveals which skills need the most improvement and how leaders and project managers differ on which skills they think need improving.

The research was sponsored by PM College, the project management training division of PM Solutions. In March, PM College surveyed 314 project management professionals from all size organizations in various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, technical, finance, and government. The purpose of the study was to understand the current skill levels of project managers — what skills project managers have and how these skills impact project and organizational success.

The survey reveals that organizations with project managers at high skill levels outperform those with project managers at low skill …

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