Powerskills: Unlocking Critical Behaviours Needed for the Future of Work

Akash Bhattacharya
4 min readJun 12, 2023

Notes from the PMI Conference Notes

Background

If knowledge were all alone needed, then PMs wouldn’t have been in high demand.

Project Managers(PM):

  • Align skills to team and organisation.
  • Knowledge offers direction but doesn’t take to the final destination.
  • Invest in power skill
  • Use the source of power for unscripted times

What is Powerskill

Abilities and behaviours that facilitate working with others and help project professionals to succeed in the workplace (PMI 2023)

Power skills are:

  • Subjective
  • Fundamentally social

Powering the Project Economy —…

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Akash Bhattacharya

Software Product Maintenance. Writes about #book, #people, #product, #productivity