In the past year, Lao Ma has thought about quitting his job countless times. He has been doing cross-border business in the Shoppe channel of a large company. As one of the earliest e-commerce operators in the company, he should have had a bright future, but he did not expect that "the waves behind push the waves ahead" and he was trapped in the wave of involution. Because the work content is too fixed, there has been no new breakthrough in business capabilities, but Lao Ma is still hardworking and diligent. After so many years in the company, he is still "sticking to" a basic position. Even the college students who were just recruited this year are already leading projects on their own and earning high salaries. Every time Lao Ma asked his leader for a promotion, he was always brushed off with the excuse of "poor project management ability".
Last time I had dinner with Lao Ma, he said to me helplessly: "I didn't expect that I, who don't know how to manage, would reach the ceiling of my career at the age of 30. It's too difficult. "
On the way home after lunch, I kept thinking, can you lead a team well just by doing more and having more experience? What does it take to be considered as knowing project management?
In fact, in the workplace, the higher you climb, the more you compete not on qualifications and workload , but on your ability to manage projects well . In other words, the bottleneck for promotion and salary increase often lies in project management ability. ! In 2009, Ren Zhengfei said, " A good company must be project-centric; excellent employees must have project management capabilities. " 12 years later, Huawei has finally become the world's leading ICT supplier and the world's number one in 5G technology, thanks to its consistent implementation of a "project-centric" approach. At Huawei, project management is considered the core competency of all employees. Employees who are able to manage projects well will have much higher positions and incomes than others . Fortune magazine in the United States has also pointed out that project management ability has become a "must-have" skill for professionals. . Project management skills Core Competitiveness of Professionals In fact, in almost all industries, employees with project management capabilities are not only favored in the job market, but also have very attractive salaries . According to Xinhua News Agency, by 2027, the number of project management-related job vacancies in China will reach 46 million. Judging from the current market conditions, no matter you are engaged in e-commerce operation, community operation or user operation , you must have some project management capabilities. As it is popular in the job market, many e-commerce employees have seen a significant increase in salary after learning project management. According to surveys and research, people from all walks of life can see their salary increase by more than 51% within just one year of learning project management. ▲ Salary increase within one year of studying project management
What's more, in addition to promotion and salary increase, project management is more likely to bring you personal gains that cannot be measured in monetary terms, such as expansion of personal network resources and improvement of leadership skills. ▲ Personal gains after learning project management
As "involution" intensifies across the industry, future workplace competition is bound to become more intense.
At this time, if you master certain project management skills, you will definitely be able to enhance your core competitiveness and be more likely to stand out in the workplace. It is really dangerous if you don’t understand project management ▌From Operations Manager to Optimized Edge Li Zhi, who has been working in e-commerce operations for more than three years, is well-known in the company for his hard work and dedication. Colleagues thought he had the best chance of being promoted to team leader, but the company instead parachuted in an operations manager. Later, I learned that although his efforts were seen, his boss felt that he lacked management skills. During last year's big promotion, because Li Zhi did not coordinate the progress of operations and customer service, many negative reviews appeared, causing the store's rating to drop. They even said that as Li Zhi's years of service increased, his salary for a basic position no longer matched his job tasks, so it would be better to fire him and hire a new person to replace him... ▌The team does not obey management and seems to be a small transparent project Wang Hui is a product manager and has worked in a SaaS company for half a year.
In the eyes of others, Wang Hui has a solid foundation and can often point out the unreasonable aspects of software design. He is a natural product manager.
But in fact, because he had never led a team and did not understand management skills, Wang Hui was quite distressed: when he proposed to optimize the product logic, the technical team dissed him; when he proposed to update the UI, the UED team dissed him; when he delayed the progress and exceeded the budget, his boss also dissed him. It feels like being at the bottom of the food chain, where anyone can step on you at any time, like a nobody in the project.
In this increasingly fierce situation of "involution", no matter you are a new media operator, e-commerce operator, content operator, product operator, or a product manager, programmer, etc., if you don’t understand project management, you will really be unable to move forward . In many companies, more and more high-paying positions are beginning to require project management responsibilities. A certain percentage of project management responsibility will also be clearly written into their performance appraisal . .
But many people who just started to try project management will face some confusion, such as: I have no power or influence, so why should everyone listen to me?
Resources are limited. How to get resources from the boss?
How can we advance multi-party tasks and win cross-departmental trust?
Obviously everyone on the team is great, so why can't they get anything done when they work together? In fact, many of the above-mentioned problems can be solved quickly if you can get guidance from a master during the critical growth period. |
