Track: People in Projects

In 2015, Google and Re:Work produced results from their 2-year study of what makes teams successful. They identified Psychological Safety as the most critical differentiator in high performing teams. Beyond this research, many academic studies have shown a direct correlation between fostering psychological safety and innovation, worker commitment, and team effectiveness. In fact, psychological safety is so critical to future organizational success that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has produced the first standards and guidelines for managing psychosocial risks in the workplace in June of this year. The ISO 45003, which connects to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, addresses the many areas that can impact a worker’s psychological health, including ineffective communication, excessive pressure, poor leadership and organizational culture.

In this session, we will go through the 3 pillars of psychological health and safety you can apply to your project plans to support innovation, build resiliency, and overcome barriers. As a result, you will learn:

• the fundamentals of psychological safety and why it matters
• the 3 pillars of psychological health & safety
• how to apply this to your project planning approaches

PMI Talent Triangle: Leadership (Power Skills)

Project management is changing. Process can be automated, tracking computerized and the image of the project manager as the person with the clipboard is no longer relevant.

Teams are more dispersed and more diverse, communications are more challenging and faster, command & control is replaced with connection, meaning & purpose.

What will differentiate one project manager from another in the future? It will not be project management skills it will be people connection and motivation skills.

In this session we will explore practical ways to increase your connection to the core of future business – human capital – the PEOPLE who work with you (peers), for you (team members), and whom you have to satisfy (Stakeholders and sponsors).

Learning objectives:

Understand the difference between management and motivation
Develop 3 immediate skills in connecting with motivating others
Explain how YOU are the better choice as a project manager or project motivator!

PMI Talent Triangle: Leadership (Power Skills)