With The Title, Comes Great Power

Throughout our careers as project managers, we wear many hats, and therefore, we use different types of power.

Sometimes we come into a project as an expert in a particular field (expert power). At other times, we have the ability to give or deny resources for a project (reward and coercive power).

If you’re named the project manager on a project, this very title brings you a form a power (legitimate power).

And when we have no formal sources of power, we have to rely on our likability factor and ability to influence others (referent power).