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    Project Management Meets the World

    In the last four weeks I had the opportunity to attend two PMI congresses. One was the 5th Central American and Caribbean Project Management Congress held in San Jose Costa Rica and the PMI Global Congress 2010 – North America.

    In both congresses, I had the opportunity to interact with project management professionals from different latitudes and continents. I tried to learn from those interactions and identify the personality treats which set a difference for the project management professionals from around the world.

    We manage projects, follow project management guidelines and apply methodologies to their day to day work. In a way we “play by the book”. But in a multicultural environment the project manager professional needs to adapt because an expression, a word or a gesture can be interpreted in multiple ways.

    Interacting with project managers I was able to identify different communication styles which were tied to their cultural background among them:  different ways of greeting each other, table manners, personal space, perception of time and many others. All this elements of communication have a great impact on the project execution.

     Multicultural teams should pay particular attention to the risk of miscommunication. Recommendations to the XXI century project managers are described in the article http://bit.ly/9gmJdP.

    Tags » Culture Diversity Leadership Multicultural team PMI Community Post Project Management Project Team Team Management
    • 22 October 2010
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    My passion is program and project management and how culture impacts the project outcome. I'd been managing global and regional projects around the world led and managed diverse and disperse teams and transformed programs into benefits.
    I had been exposed to several project management methodologies and achieved credentials from different project management organizations. I am the first Mexican to achieve the PgMP credential and mentoring potential candidates from Latin America.
    As an avid volunteer with PMI and with other organizations I participate in events that promote the project management culture. I have a strong multi-cultural background and speak fluently English, Spanish and Portuguese.
    I am a frequent speaker at regional and global project management congresses. You can read my columns in PMI Community Post and INyES Latino.


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  • About Conrado Morlan

    My passion is program and project management and how culture impacts the project outcome. I'd been managing global and regional projects around the world led and managed diverse and disperse teams and transformed programs into benefits.
    I had been exposed to several project management methodologies and achieved credentials from different project management organizations. I am the first Mexican to achieve the PgMP credential and mentoring potential candidates from Latin America.
    As an avid volunteer with PMI and with other organizations I participate in events that promote the project management culture. I have a strong multi-cultural background and speak fluently English, Spanish and Portuguese.
    I am a frequent speaker at regional and global project management congresses. You can read my columns in PMI Community Post and INyES Latino.


    Conrado Morlan, EzineArticles.com Basic Author

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