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The Skills We'll Need to Partner with AI

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin is editor-in-chief for PM Solutions Research, and the author, co-author and editor of over twenty books on project management, including the 2007 PMI Literature Award winner, The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Second Edition.

Last fall at the PMI Global Summit, we presented findings from our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery, that emphasized how higher-level critical thinking skills, plus Emotional Intelligence and other interpersonal skills, would be most important for project managers in an AI-enabled environment. (The PMI presentation has expired, but you can view a similar recorded webinar here.) I went so far as to predict that human skills would be our "superpower" when AI entered the project management realm.

Six months later, I'm seeing that same theme played on multiple channels:

  • Wired Magazine featured an article stressing the importance of people skills to make the most of using an AI assistant;
  • The New York TImes piece discussed how the advent of AI will cause us to finally put a proper value on human and interpersonal skills.
  • Forbes stressed how AI will allow project managers to develop higher-value skills and have the time to employ them.

So the question is not what we need to do to train ourselves and our employees to make the most of AI, it's how to get started, and where to focus. Despite the hype, says The Economist, the level of investment in AI is lagging. Is this also true in project-oriented companies? Join our research study population to contribute your thoughts on AI adoption (and other Changing Approaches to Project Management). But hurry--the study closes tomorrow, March 8.

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