Resource Center: Project Manager Competency

Professional development programs that are competency-based help organizations target their training dollars to make the most difference in project management outcomes. Yet organizations still struggle with how to get started with a structured and measurable competency improvement program. To help address the challenge of project manager competency development, we’ve compiled a number of our best writings and thinking on the subject to help create a well-trained workforce capable of maximizing their potential in various project management roles.

On-Demand Webinar

• A 5-Step Process Linking Project Management Competency to Improved Business Performance

Project Management Competency Assessment & Development Services

PM College’s Project Management Competency Assessment Program focuses on building the strengths and identifying the gaps in project management knowledge and skills. Competency assessment results also help organizations target training only where deficiencies are recognized, thus eliminating unnecessary training programs and ensuring more productive results from their training investment. [more]

Competency Q&A

In our recent webinar on project management competency, Debbie Crawford, President of College, received more questions than she could answer. Here are some of the most frequently asked overflow questions with Debbie’s answers. Take a listen. 

• How have you seen the competency assessment used in the recruiting process?

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• You've mentioned that communication plays an important role. Do you have some tips for the communication strategy?

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• Have you seen any particular behaviors/attitudes to which strong project managers typically gravitate?

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• Where can I obtain access to the competency assessment instrument?

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• How do you do Behavior/Attributes assessment? Is there some kind of test?

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• Is there any info/guidelines on what the competency implementation costs might typically be for different size companies?

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• Any tips on selling the benefits of project management to cultures that are naturally suspicious of 'new' ideas?

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• How can we get sponsors to make the commitment and assign resources to improve project manager competency?

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• Can you share some of the specific metrics that the companies referenced during your presentation used to know they were improving?

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• Can you talk a little more about how you tie these improvements to actual business benefits... not improved delivery, but things like increased sales, or decreased expenses?

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