Essential HR skills: Project management

Today it is essential HR managers are not only good people managers, skilled negotiators, great listeners and business minded, but also have a healthy set of project management skills.

A project is a process of delivering a defined change, usually to a fixed timescale and budget with defined quality standards. Several projects may form part of a journey towards a common goal that collectively comprises a programme of change. Thus an HR systems implementation project, the design and development of a shared service centre and an HR capability programme may be three projects within an overall HR transformation programme.

This article examines how the modern HR practitioner needs to develop to gain project management skills to work with more flexibility. It will put you in a great position to deal with the modern HR function which is often less about business-as-usual and more about the business of change

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Free chapter download from HR - The Business Partner : Managing projects and reviewing performance

As Business Partners operate more strategically, their role increasingly involves shaping and managing projects that add value to the business. The aim of this chapter is to outline the different stages of managing projects and to highlight some of the more frequently used tools.

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