Level Up Your Project Management Career with Continuous Learning

Continuous learning helps project professionals keep up with the skills they need to excel in the profession—but it has to be done strategically. Guests discuss how to create a flexible and durable continuous learning strategy, how to balance upskilling with day-to-day project and personal responsibilities, which skills they see as must-haves for project professionals—today and in the future—and how PMO leaders can help project professionals in their continuous learning journeys. Our guests include Alfred Maina, PMO-CP, PMI-ACP, PMP, technical project manager, Thunes, Nairobi; and Americo Pinto, PMO-CC, PMO-CP , PMP, managing director, PMO Global Alliance at PMI, Rio de Janeiro. Key themes [02:13] How to craft a continuous learning strategy [06:12] Where to find upskilling opportunities [07:19] Balancing work, personal time and continued learning [10:20] Top skills to improve: technical and power skills, plus artificial intelligence know-how [15:33] Why your continuous learning strategy should be flexible [18:18] Using formal and informal education opportunities to upskill [20:17] How to determine which skills to improve—and how much organizational objectives should be a factor [24:27] Ways PMO leaders can help project professionals create and meet their continuous learning goals