The Project Management Podcast - Interpersonal Skills for Project Success | Episode 386

Last year at the Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Congress 2016 in San Diego, California I recorded an all time high of 14 interviews. They have all been published over the past few months and you’ve probably heard some or all of them. But what you don’t know is what happened once each interview was complete. I pressed the recording button one more time and asked each of my guests the following question: Which is the interpersonal skill that you attribute the most of our success in your career to? In other words, what skill has helped you most on your projects when you interact with others? And today you are going to get all the answers. In one nice mashup. Here are all the presenters in the order you will hear their answers Jay Payette Kristy Tan Neckowicz Nk Shrivastava David Hillson Denise McRoberts Joy Beatty Kristine Hayes Munson Andrew Burns Kim Wasson Wanda Curlee Beth Spriggs Cyndi Snyder Dionisio Connie Inman Oh, and spoiler alert... the answer that I received most often was "Relationships". https://www.pm-podcast.com/386. It's not a surprise to me, a this comes up time and time again in the things we see on social media for project managers, and you'll have picked up the trend in my past interview. Whether you are leading a PMO, directing a huge project, taking part in an IT software development initiative, or working in the role of project manager in SAFe agile, or any other project role, relationships are the things that power our success. Project manager coaching and mentoring can only get you so far. Building effective working relationships with your colleagues is what really makes the difference. But I have a feeling you might have already known that!