2025 PMP Power Skills: The People Domain

Lead high performing project teams by unifying around a shared vision, clarifying roles, and fostering trust, collaboration, and a growth mindset aligned with PMI's seven behaviors.

Relate the tenets of servant leadership to project teams by exploring stewardship, trust, and collaboration, with key behaviors like empowering the team and removing impediments, per PMBoK seven.

Assess context to determine an appropriate leadership style, blending servant leadership with situational approaches. Empower teams through clear guardrails and delegated decision making.

Learn how to inspire, motivate, and influence team members and stakeholders through a unifying vision, purpose-driven leadership, storytelling, and positive energy that boosts performance and engagement.

Lead by inspiring, motivating, and influencing team members and stakeholders, aligning intrinsic and extrinsic motivators with purpose, autonomy, and mastery to boost performance.

Learn to influence team members and stakeholders without formal authority by building trust, credibility, and a strong foundation of integrity, intent, capabilities, and results.

Learn how intrinsic and extrinsic rewards affect motivation, and how to design a reward system using surprise rewards, meaningful feedback, and intangible recognition to inspire teams and minimize demotivating factors.

Analyze how team members and stakeholders influence projects through pull and push dynamics, trust, and servant leadership, then monitor, empower positive influence, mitigate negative impact, and deepen stakeholder relationships.

Learn how the project manager enhances team performance by fostering a shared vision, mission, and objectives, developing key team agreements, and promoting focus, diversity, change readiness, and team development.

Explore how key performance indicators translate objectives into quantifiable metrics, balancing quantitative and qualitative assessments while showing how KPIs cascade from organizational to individual levels.

Verify performance improvements using smart KPIs, diagnose root causes like skill gaps or role confusion, and sustain momentum via a continual improvement model such as ITIL idol.

Empower teams by granting autonomy within clear guardrails, leveraging social, structural, and psychological empowerment to enable self-directed work and informed decision-making.

Organize around team strengths by conducting a team SWOT analysis, involving everyone to map strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and use a shared game plan with pulse checks.

Clarify task accountability by defining who is responsible and what done means. Set a realistic due date within mutual expectations, and use task boards to track progress.

lead with servant leadership to continuously assess and refresh team skills, using coaching models and experimentation to meet project needs, while celebrating ongoing learning and growth.

Explore information sharing and knowledge transfer across projects, using reports, information radiators, and stakeholder engagement to enable collaboration and continuous improvement.

Identify impediments and blockers that slow projects, and apply alternatives analysis, integrated change control, and risk management to keep the team moving toward value.

Determine critical impediments for the team with predictive approaches, categorize by impact, cost, and time, set priority levels, assign owners, and track status via standups and information radiators.

Validate and prioritize project objectives with a sponsor, align scope, schedule, and cost using a three by three matrix, and establish change control, decision making, and governance through cascades.

Evaluate stakeholder engagement needs by mapping stakeholders with influence/interest grids or the salience model, then craft a proactive engagement plan to drive collaboration and project success.