The UK must improve the training of personnel, including those in project management jobs.
That is according to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), which suggests that companies should invest more time and effort into developing employees’ management skills.
Mike Petrook, head of public affairs at the CMI, said that there was a lack of people in senior positions with professional qualifications and that this needed to be rectified.
He said: “In the UK just one in five managers are professionally qualified. So to improve these issues we must invest more in the development of management and leadership.”
Mr Petrook went on to say that an additional way of developing an employee’s skills was to send them on a placement – something that would “widen somebody’s experience”.
He made his comments after the quarterly Employee Outlook survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development revealed that the majority of workers are not satisfied with the training offered by management.
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Fewer Projects Manager still have enough relevant experience according to a recent article in a recent issue of Association For Project Management magazine ‘Project’ !
My prefessional experience in Local Government service since 1993 confirms this and not just in Project Management. This may partly due to misjudged as politically correct job description – person specification which over the same period in thousands of job adverts studiously avoids prescribing professional qualifications or at best it asks for “or eqivalent ‘practical experience’ ” whatever this is meant to convey to the unitiated. For a country that competes with the best for training the world, I regard this as serious let down even if one is strictly against the ‘closed’ or protected profession of chartered status. I have also had to personally come to the rescue of many a project with cost the employer dearly for entrusting complex and simple construction contracts alike, to the unitiated.