Teaching technical and behavioural competences in project management

Managing projects is a complex issue and it implies leveraging on different competences. “Good” Project Management is achieved by leveraging properly on both technical and behavioural competences. We argue that addressing simultaneously and coherently both kinds of competences may pay off. This research is related to a massive training program conducted by an Italian Multinational Group that involved during 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 more than 700 Project Managers. Based on data collected during the development of this program, we aim at testing whether teaching both technical and behavioural competences simultaneously and jointly can improve the training experience and effectiveness.