Applying Your Skills to
Other Activities
As your project management career progresses, you will become more
and more valuable to yourself and to your company. It is to your advantage
and to the advantage of your company to share your skills with
others and to lead other tasks within the company. This readily becomes
a positively reinforced process. By being more valuable to the
company, you are more valuable to yourself, and so on.
You are in a position now to add breadth and depth to the knowledge
base for project management used in your company and perhaps
the organizations to which you belong. Searching for new ideas applicable
to project management is high on the list of how you can apply your
knowledge and expertise. The application of your project management
skills may be in mentoring less experienced project managers. Mentoring
is also applicable to others who are not project managers, such as
administrative people and technical people. Many projects need administrators
knowledgeable in project management techniques, while
other projects need technical people knowledgeable in project management
techniques. It will be your pleasure to apprise them of these techniques.
At this level, you can be the architect for developing a project management
office (PMO) within your company, you can be the catalyst
for new ideas for managing projects using the standards now available
through your participation in project management organizations, and
you can chair project activities within your company.
Now is the time to share what you have gained—to give back some
of what you have learned.