Exploring Power

Skills in Practice

Diving deeper into Pulse

of the Profession® 2023
Agenda

• Introduction
• The Top Power Skills for Project
Managers
• Prioritizing Power Skills – How and
Why for Organizations
To learn more about Power Skills,
• Assessing Power Skills in Individuals explore our Power Skills Resource
and Teams Hub and the Pulse of the Profession
2023 report:
• Conclusion
www.pmi.org/powerskills
• Q&A

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Our Panelists

Mary Wanja Murekio Steven Czarniak

Senior Program Manager Project Management Center of
Safaricom, PLC Excellence
Boston Scientific 3
TOP POWER SKILLS

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Top Four Power Skills

Comm unication Problem-solving Collaborative Leadership Strategic Thinking

Effective in Ability to figure out Ability to work with others Ability to see patterns
explanation, writing what is wrong and across boundaries to and alternative paths
and public speaking resolve it make decisions rather than complexity

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Most Critical Power Skills Globally and by Region

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Discussion

What do power skills look like in

project managers?

How do power skills contribute to

project success?

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Polling Question

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HOW ORGANIZATIONS
PRIORITIZE POWER
SKILLS

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Power Skills and Key Drivers of Project Success

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Power Skills and Project Outcomes

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Discussion

How does your organization

demonstrate that power skills are
a priority?

What learning and development

opportunities does your
organization make available to help
project managers build power
skills?

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ASSESSING POWER
SKILLS

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Power Skills Assessments

Organizations that place a Organizations that do not

high priority on power skills: prioritize power skills:

91% 86% 69% 43%

Individual assessments Team assessments 15

Methods of Assessment

Formal performance 79%

assessments 44%

Supervisor/manager 74%
assessments 53%

47%
Customer feedback 67%

41%
360-degree surveys 44%

29%
Standardized testing 34%
Individual assessments
Team assessments

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Discussion

Does your organization

evaluate individual project
team members on power skills?
How do they do so?

Does your organization

evaluate project teams on
power skills?
How do they do so?

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Q&A

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THANK YOU!

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