A career plateau is when any chance of promotion is low even if you are an outstanding performer. Project managers, in particular, must grapple with the fact that they are typecast as middle-management administrators, even though they successfully lead cross functional teams and drive results, without having direct authority over resources. A project manager’s relationship with their organization may be good, but their viewpoints of career progression may be out of sync, hence causing tension. It is imperative that the project manager act by utilizing the communication tactics of seeking feedback, promoting themselves, and building influential relationships in order to create career advancement opportunities. This project bite
highlights the problem of a career plateau by looking at the imbalance between skill sets, or the lack of organizational opportunities, and what a project manager can do to unlock upward career mobility.