PMW001 Excerpt from “Project Management Skills for All Careers”

It is an honor to have been selected as the first Broadcast Publisher for Project Management World (PMW). I will be issuing weekly Broadcasts that are excerpts from PMW documents. This first broadcast is an excerpt from “Project Management Skills for All Careers” which is both a self-study class and a textbook. The course was created and taught by several experts.

Careers Using Project Management Skills
Skills learned by your exposure to studying project management can be used in most careers as well as in your daily life. Strong planning skills, good communication, ability to implement a project to deliver the product or service while also monitoring for risks and managing the resources will provide an edge towards your success. Project Managers can be seen in many industry sectors including: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Arts, Media and Entertainment; Building Trades and Construction; Energy and Utilities; Engineering and Design; Fashion and Interiors; Finance and Business; Health and Human Services; Hospitality, Tourism and Recreation; Manufacturing and Product Development; Public and Private Education Services; Public Services; Retail and Wholesale Trade; Transportation; and Information Technology.

In this and future broadcasts we explore various careers and some of the ways in which project management knowledge can be leveraged. Our first example is education and one role in education is Teacher.

Teachers
Some teachers foster the intellectual and social development of children during their formative years; other teachers provide knowledge, career skill sets and guidance to adults. Project management skills that teachers exhibit include acting as facilitators or coaches, communicating in the classroom and in individual instruction. Project managers plan and evaluate various aspects of a project; teachers also plan, evaluate, and assign lessons; implement these plans, and monitor student‘s progress similar to the way a project manager monitors and delivers goods or services. Teachers use their people skills to manage students, parents, administrators. The soft skills that project managers exercise can be seen in teachers encouraging collaboration in solving problems by having students work in groups to discuss and solve problems as a team.

Project Managers may work in a variety of fields with a broad assortment of people, similar to teachers who work with students from varied ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds with awareness and understanding of different cultures. Teachers in some schools may be involved in making decisions regarding the budget, personnel, textbooks, curriculum design, and teaching methods demonstrating skills that a project manager would possess such as finance, and decision making