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#### Dr. Mike Ikona, Psy.D., PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, PCC

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## [Fine Tune Your Leadership and Nonverbal Communication](https://resources.educate360.com/fine-tune-your-leadership-and-nonverbal-communication)

 By: [Dr. Mike Ikona, Psy.D., PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, PCC](https://resources.educate360.com/author/dr-mike-ikona-psy-d-pmp-pmi-rmp-pmi-acp-pcc)  November 20th, 2019

 Today, project management is focusing more on the human element of organizational change management. Fundamentally, PMI is placing a greater emphasis on leadership and communication. In fact, leadership is one of three components making up PMI’s project manager competency model known as the PMI Talent Triangle®. In fact, the word ‘manager’ is starting to develop a negative connotation. For that reason, I believe in 10 years, we will be called project leaders and not project managers.

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