Why Project Leaders Need Power Skills
Projectified
English - October 12, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.75 MB - ★★★★★ - 200 ratingsCareers Business Education agile artificialintelligence careerdevelopment digitaltransformation hybridapproaches innovation pmp projects risk socialgood Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It’s time to lean into the power skills—communication, problem-solving, collaborative leadership and strategic thinking—that help project leaders influence stakeholders and deliver successful projects. We discuss this with:
Swapna Yadavalli, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, VP of technology program management, Mastercard, Pune, India: Yadavalli discusses how leaders with power skills help their teams succeed, how strong communication and collaboration helped her team deliver a large-scale program and ways fellow project leaders can further develop their own power skills.
Manuel Segura Pérez, head of project and construction management, Repsol, Madrid: Segura Pérez shares why communication is a critical power skill for all leaders and how he helped foster greater communication and collaboration on a joint venture.
Key themes
[02:04] How power skills boost collaboration on cross-functional teams
[04:49] Using communication and collaborative leadership to deliver a successful program
[06:30] Ways project leaders can develop power skills
[08:14] Using empathy to improve power skills within teams
[11:00] Selecting future leaders with power skill potential