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16 Feb 2026

Beyond Job Titles: Empowering Skill-Centric Project Management

Historically, hiring and talent acquisition for projects centred around fixed job specifications and clearly defined roles. But as the world of work continues to shift, and organisations face increasing pressure to hire less frequently, project success can no longer rely solely on rigid role boundaries. Instead, it must draw on the diverse, dynamic skills individuals bring to the table.  

Led by Dinah Turner of Skills Miner, a leader in skills intelligence and workforce capability development, this session Beyond Job Titles: Empowering Skill-Centric Project Management explores how shifting from traditional role-based delivery to a skills-first project culture can unlock higher performance, adaptability, and engagement within teams. 

The session will delve into how project managers can harness real-time skills insights to build stronger teams, enhance collaboration, and deliver better outcomes. Attendees will gain clarity on how to map skills effectively, reduce dependency on job titles that no longer reflect modern work, and strengthen capability planning for future projects. 

This forward-thinking session aims to equip project professionals with practical techniques and a mindset shift to navigate the changing landscape of work, ensuring they can lead with confidence, empower diverse talent, and increase delivery confidence across projects of all kinds 

Key Takeaways 

  • Understanding the Shift to Skills-Based Delivery: Why job titles alone no longer reflect capability in modern project environments. The impact of skills-first thinking on team design, collaboration, and performance. 

  • Tools and Insights from Skills Intelligence: How real-time skills mapping (as used in Skills Miner) can help uncover hidden strengths within teams. Practical approaches for identifying and activating existing capabilities. 

  • Building Adaptive, High-Performing Project Teams: How project managers can form teams based on skills readiness rather than traditional hierarchies. Techniques for enabling flexibility and resilience across project roles. 

  • Strengthening Talent Development and Retention: How skill-centric approaches create clearer development pathways and support career mobility. Encouraging a culture where individuals are valued for their capabilities and potential, not job labels. 

  • Practical Application for Project Professionals: Examples of how skills-focused planning leads to more predictable project outcomes.Steps to start integrating skills intelligence into your existing project frameworks. 

Who should attend? 

  • Project Managers, Programme Managers, and Delivery Leads, who want to move beyond rigid role structures and build teams based on real-time skills capability. 

  • PMO Leaders and Portfolio Managers, looking to strengthen resource planning, optimise talent utilisation, and future-proof workforce capability. 

  • Change and Transformation Leaders, who are navigating organisational shifts toward more flexible, skills-first ways of working. 

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