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At the PMI Global Summit about a month ago, I attended a session by Erica Jorde and Maia Hyary of JBS International about helping people who already work at your company see their potential to grow into project management roles, and creating a clear and supported pathway for them to transition to...

One of my goals is to be a mentor of sorts to you—someone who can guide you through growth as a project manager with a minimal time commitment on your part every week. And I can fit anywhere in your schedule!

But I hope you also look for in-person mentors. While I have had a few formal...

Does your role as a project manager require regular communication with clients or vendors? Or are you newly finding yourself working with professionals external to your organization? 

I worked directly with outside clients for the first year and a half of my career, and with many types of...

I love being a project manager because I see it as so much more than a job. As I’ve discussed before, it feels like a set of superpowers that makes me a borderline superhero. But these fantastical terms are really a metaphor for the tremendous down-to-earth value we as project leaders...

Today, I’d like to share a project manager pro tip with you…I didn’t learn it until year 6 or so, and there’s no reason you need to wait that long.

Here it is:

Don’t always respond to everyone right away.

What?? Why not? Isn’t it a huge part of my job to...

I was sitting in a room with our director of customer relationship management (CRM) and the manager of our data entry team, asking them to explain what exact steps needed to happen when we set up a donation webpage, to make sure a donor’s information flows correctly through our 3rd-party...

Are you struggling to get the definition of a project straight in your own mind? Does your role at work feel poorly defined because you and your coworkers aren’t talking about projects in the same way?

By the end of this article, you’ll be equipped with the same language I use to...

You are a superhero. 

Do you believe that?

Of course, we could get into the nuance of what ‘being a superhero’ can mean for a real human person in the 21st century—and trust me, I love nuance. Often nuance is where I find the insight I need to move forward. “The...