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Interpersonal Skills: Human vs. Technical
21 February, 2022
What makes for a successful project? … Fully competent human beings!
“While having relevant technical project management skills is an important aspect of successful projects, having the interpersonal and leadership skills to work effectively with stakeholders is just as important, if not more so.” (Project Management Body Of Knowledge v7 – PMBOK7 by Project Management Institute – PMI).
A reflection that we can draw from this paragraph in PMBOK7 is that they are recognizing the importance of “interpersonal and leadership skills” for project success.
They are highlighting the relevance of the human beings from their technical to the interpersonal and leadership skills as “just as important, if not more so”.
But the “just as” isn’t really valid with respect to the interpersonal and leadership skills. If what we want are competent people implementing successful projects, we have to see them as “more important” being the only thing that is valid.
It is surprising to see that the importance of the well-rounded human being as a determining factor in a project’s success is still questioned by institutions that are internationally renowned in organizational project management.
Because of considerations like those put forth by these world renowned frameworks, Change Management today, as per methodological guidelines for organizational projects, is defined as a “nice to have” instead of a “must have”.
What is the reality as universally concerns projects nowadays? Close to 70% of projects end in problems or canceled.
Do you suppose that giving primary importance to the human being as the principal determining factor for successful projects would change this statistic? That’s why we propose The 10 Elements for a project’s success.
You might also be interested in: Change Management Budget: How can you expect success on the projects when the investment on the human factor is quite low in comparison to the overall project cost?
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