Making a Modern Project Manager
SERIES ARTICLE
By Yasmina Khelifi
Paris, France
Continuous learning is a valuable skill in a fast-paced changing world. But how can we put it into practice?
Let’s find out!
Define what you want to learn
Skills are usually divided into two types:
- Hard skills or technical skills: the word ‘technical’ has to be understood in a broader sense than usual.
- Interpersonal skills or soft skills or power skills are social skills and how you get along with people.
Hard skills
This is the core of your expertise. At work you may have professional development opportunities. Or perhaps you are part of a professional association, and you can take part in conferences or present some webinars.
Interpersonal skills
If you work in corporate, you may have some professional training in leadership skills. If not, you can engage in a professional community where you volunteer.
However, these skills need practice, self-reflection, and guidance. Some people’s professional training does not include any soft skills at all.
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Editor’s note: This series of articles is by a project manager for Gen X, Y and Z project professionals. The author Yasmina Khelifi is a project manager with a large multinational telecom in France while also an active PM professional, authoring articles, interviews and a popular LinkedIn blog as well as a podcast with a global audience. Also active in PMI France for many years, she has been an international correspondent for the PMWJ since 2021. We are delighted that she has agreed to author a series of articles based on her personal experiences over the last decade.
How to cite this article: Khelifi, Y. (2025). Learn Continuously, Making a Modern Project Manager series article, PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue VII, July. Available online at: https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/pmwj154-Jul2025-Khelifi-Learn-Continuously-series-article.pdf
About the Author
Yasmina Khelifi
Paris, France
Yasmina Khelifi, PMP, PMI- ACP, PMI-PBA is an experienced project manager in the telecom industry. Along with her 20-year career at Orange S.A. (the large French multinational telecommunications corporation), she sharpened her global leadership skills, delivering projects with major manufacturers and SIM makers. Yasmina strives for building collaborative bridges between people to make international projects successful. She relies on three pillars: project management skills, the languages she speaks, and a passion for sharing knowledge.
She is a PMP certification holder since 2013, a PMI- ACP and PMI-PBA certification holder since 2020. She is an active volunteer member at PMI France and PMI UAE, and a member of PMI Germany Chapter. French-native, she can speak German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and she is learning Arabic. Yasmina loves sharing her knowledge and experiences at work, in her volunteers’ activities at PMI, and in projectmanagement.com as a regular blogger. She is also the host and co-founder of the podcast Global Leaders Talk with Yasmina Khelifi to help people in becoming better international leaders.
Yasmina can be contacted at https://yasminakhelifi.com/ or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasminakhelifi-pmp-telecom/
Visit her correspondent profile at https://pmworldlibrary.net/yasmina-khelifi/
To view other works by Yasmina Kehelifi, visit her author showcase in the PM World Library at https://pmworldlibrary.net/authors/yasmina-khelifi/
