Skills for Successful Project Management

Top 10 Competencies of APM Practitioners

To obtain the Association for Project Management’s Practitioner Qualification (PQ), delegates are assessed against 30 technical and behavioural criteria.

A recent report by Dr Andrew Delo of Provek identified the top ten criteria exhibited by successful candidates.  Interestingly, the top four all centre on inter personal skills.

1. Lead and influence a small team
2. Answer questions relevantly and succinctly
3. Communicate verbally in an appropriate way
4. Present compelling recommendations
5. Define the scope of the project
6. Apply a management process competently
7. Determine stakeholders and their influence/interests
8. Obtain information through use of appropriate questions
9. Understand project context and business case
10. Design the optimal project organisation

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1 Comment

1. Project Managements — September 8, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

   Good techniques…. thanks for sharing this post.

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