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Earn Your Seat at the Table: 6 Ways for New Project Managers to Earn Respect 

Are you an inexperienced or young project manager looking to garner the respect of your peers in the workplace? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Learn to speak the language of key audiences (ex: Business value is the language of Executives)

• Visible competence is a powerful antidote to concerns over your experience/age. Don't show your homework, but demonstrate results transparently.

• A PM's most powerful tool is in how their team mirrors their energy. Use your voice, energy, and tone to lead your team through challenges effectively

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

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Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

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Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

Steering Without a Rudder: 6 Proven Tactics for Thriving When Project Sponsorship Is Absent, Weak, or in Flux

Are you a project manager trying to overcome inconsistent or weak sponsorship to deliver your project? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Governance is like an attorney: When someone says you don't need it, that's when you most need it

• Get ahead of waning sponsorship by keeping the value of the project in constant focus

• Inconsistent sponsorship is a risk to project success, and should be managed like any other risk

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman/

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

The Project Manager's Guide to Leading a Project You Didn’t Start

Have you been handed an ongoing project to manage that you didn't start? If so, this episode is for you.

Key take-aways of today's episode include:

• Take a breath - No one expects you to know everything on day 1
• Identify the key players in your project. Hint: They're often not the most senior or visible stakeholders.
• Focus on the big picture first before rushing into action

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

http://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

Influencing Without Authority as a Project Manager

Are you a Project Manager struggling to engage with your team or feeling like you can't get things done without a formal title? If so, this episode is for you.

Better Projects Today is the the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman/

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

Are you a new project professional looking to avoid those mistakes that every new PM makes (including micromanaging, focusing on tasks/tools, or communication failures)? If so, this video is for you!

5 Tips for Dealing with Unrealistic Project Timelines

Are you a project manager that's been handed a project with unrealistic timeline expectations? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Trust and transparency are foundational to getting a project back on track

• If asking for more resources, do it in a way that makes it very easy for your Sponsor to say "yes"

• When faced with someone unreasonable, approach them with a "coalition of the reasonable"

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman/

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking/

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

4 Tips for Project Roadmaps That Actually Matter

Are you a project leader looking to improve how you communicate project schedules with your team? If so, this episode is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• A roadmap and Gannt schedule are two very different tools and should be treated as such

• Ensure your roadmap's structure aligns with the project's vision/objective to intrinsically "tell the story" of how your project will flow

• A well-designed roadmap is a powerful tool for facilitating discussions with shared vernacular and visibility to impacts of change

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman/

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

PgMP 101 - An Overview of PMI's Program Management Professional Certification

Are you an experienced project professional looking to take the next step in your career? If so, the PgMP might be right for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• The PgMP is significantly less known than the PMP but is building momentum and recognition

• It provides massive value at a personal, team, and organizational level

• The PgMP Exam is a monster, but test strategy can make it manageable

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman/

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching

5 Tips for Project Reporting Stakeholders Will Actual Read

Are you a project manager finding your project reporting is ineffective or not being read? If so, this episode is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Be brief, be brilliant, be gone. It's harder to write a concise report than on overly-detailed one

• Optimize your report creation process as an org/team level, not a personal one

• Teach your stakeholders how to read the reporting (including potential methods)

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

Join Me!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-norman/

https://www.tylercnorman.com/

Event Speaking and Facilitated Workshops

https://www.tylercnorman.com/speaking

Career and Performance Coaching

https://www.tylercnorman.com/coaching