Project Manager Competencies and Learning: A Literature Review

The project manager must possess various skills in order to achieve the goals set in the project for which he is responsible. According to the existing literature, these managerial skills possessed by the project manager can be not only of the hard type (technical), but also of the soft type (behavioural or transversal). In order to better understand these dynamics, the aim of this research is to present the discussion about how project managers learn soft skills according to the scientific literature. The purpose, specifically, is to map and group the various articles published, from 2003 to 2022, to have an overall representation of the studies carried out. The methodological approach used was quantitative through a literature review that took place in three phases. The main results showed that the most prominent research areas are knowledge management, the typologies of skills and the learning method and style.