Active listening and empathy won’t show up on your PMP certification. They won’t appear in a project charter or stakeholder matrix. But they are the difference between a project that delivers outputs and a project that creates lasting change.
Employers often favor candidates who already have real-world execution experience. That leaves many capable professionals stuck trying to break into a field that increasingly expects them to already know how to operate inside it.
Conscious unbossing as a professional’s career choice and conscious unbossing as a leadership philosophy not only have no intersection, but can be detrimental in implementation. When does it become reckless leadership?
We have a relatively new, extremely serious threat to sustainability at both the corporate level and the personal level. It’s from a source that you may not immediately consider: artificial intelligence.
In recognition of World Environment Day, we’ve curated a collection of articles and webinars that highlight how project professionals, industries and PMOs are integrating sustainability into their work. These resources showcase practical approaches, emerging trends, and real-world perspectives.
How much do you challenge the directive? If project managers are always going to go along with what they are asked or told to do, then there really isn’t a lot of point in them being there.
Hello, If BAC is Cost Baseline, what is Cost Budget? ...
Modern governance increasingly encourages organizations to become more adaptive.Projects are expected to: • Reassess continuously, • Respond dynamically to stakeholders, • Incorporate feedback rapidly ...
What signals help you tell different kinds of AI work apart—and what tends to go wrong when everything gets lumped together?Have you ever been in a conversation where “AI” meant different things to di ...
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Most project managers who stall in their careers are not bad at the job.They are just invisible.And the frustrating part? The work is there. The crises averted, the schedules held, the stakeholder con ...
A significant challenge in AI adoption is what can be described as ethical lag, the gap between what technology can do and what organizations are prepared to manage responsibly. AI capabilities are ad ...
Yes, yes, I know that this blog’s title has some explaining to do, primarily along the lines of “Are we really going to start awarding honorary PMP®s to fictional characters?”, along with “Well, if we ...
If you work in a matrix environment, you’ve probably had this thought: who really owns the budget? I’ve certainly had situations in past roles where I’ve thought I could make decisions and then found ...
Register now for this June 16 webinar, which provides aspiring PMP® certification holders with a practical, forward‑looking overview of the updated PMP exam launching on July 9, 2026. This session breaks down why the exam is changing, what’s new in the updated content outline, and how candidates should adapt their study plans to stay on track.
Active listening and empathy won’t show up on your PMP certification. They won’t appear in a project charter or stakeholder matrix. But they are the difference between a project that delivers outputs and a project that creates lasting change.
PMI interviewed executives across industries about the people-related factors that enable—or hinder—enterprise agility. The quotes that follow offer a candid view of the leadership behaviors, mindsets, and organizational conditions that help people thrive in a complex, fast-changing world.
85% of sustainability executives are confident their organization can deliver on its sustainability goals. Only 43% of PMO leaders agree. PMI research surfaces the friction points where sustainability strategy weakens between commitment and execution.
Resilience appears in annual reports, board presentations, and CEO commitments. Delivering it requires something more specific: organizations built to execute their sustainability goals when cost pressure hits, timelines tighten, and trade-offs have to be made under real conditions. New PMI research—Executing Sustainability Strategy: When Ambition Meets Reality—documents the gap
In recognition of World Environment Day, we’ve curated a collection of articles and webinars that highlight how project professionals, industries and PMOs are integrating sustainability into their work. These resources showcase practical approaches, emerging trends, and real-world perspectives.
To better align projects with sustainability and social impact, PMOs should clearly communicate the connections between the project, the organization’s strategy, and stakeholder expectations to the project manager early.
We have a relatively new, extremely serious threat to sustainability at both the corporate level and the personal level. It’s from a source that you may not immediately consider: artificial intelligence.
This webinar explores the evolution of the GPM-b™ credential into the Certified Sustainable Project Professional (CSPP™) and what the transition means for modern project leaders. Attendees will learn how the CSPP™ positions sustainability as a core project management capability, how the credential is earned, and how it fits within the broader certification landscape. The session also examines why sustainable project leadership is becoming increasingly critical for long-term career growth and organizational impact.
This webinar explores how project leaders can design for long-term sustainability by connecting implementation, transition, and closure decisions. Using frameworks such as the Green Project Management P5 Standard, attendees will examine how governance, stakeholder readiness, reporting, and responsible exit planning influence lasting project value. The session also highlights transition stress testing and strategies for building adaptive capacity so teams and communities can sustain outcomes independently after project closeout.
This webinar explores how sustainability is transforming the role of the PMO from an operational control center into a driver of long-term business resilience and value creation. Attendees will learn how sustainable PMOs integrate ESG priorities, governance, risk management, and strategic decision-making into project delivery. Drawing on PMI and GPM frameworks, the session also examines global trends including climate risk, AI transformation, and evolving sustainability reporting requirements shaping modern organizations.
In today’s environment, even the most well-designed strategies and projects fail without one critical element: culture. This session reframes organizational culture from a “soft” concept to a core driver of execution, performance, and results.
South Asia and APAC project professionals discuss why human judgment is key to turning GenAI potential into real project progress.
In this executive interview, Jeff Leach, co-founder and COO of Adaptivity and former leader at organizations including Accenture and SolutionsIQ, discusses enterprise agility as a holistic organizational capability centered on adaptability, continuous learning and operational responsiveness. He explains that enterprise agility is not simply about agile software practices, but about creating organizations that can pivot quickly, align around shared goals, reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and empower people to solve problems collaboratively. Leach also explores common barriers to agility, including executive misalignment and excessive governance, while highlighting the growing relationship between AI and enterprise agility as organizations seek to speed up the translation of insights into meaningful business outcomes.
Effectively managing teams that are broadly or at least partly contract-based requires a very different management practice. Project managers need to approach their role differently, and look at each stage of the project management project through a different lens. There are different considerations in play and different challenges that need to be managed.
Project Management Offices play a critical role in today’s U.S. healthcare organizations—but what do effective PMO structures actually look like in practice?
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