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    This document provides tips for new project managers (PMs) in 3 sentences or less: Communicate openly with your team, be transparent about risks and changes, and challenge conventional thinking to build trust. Embrace what you don't know by asking questions of subject matter experts and being willing to learn from mistakes. Focus on motivating your team and managing people as the top priority, taking responsibility and defending the team.

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    #1 Tips for

    New PMs
    *from 48 Current
    PMs
    COMMUNICATION = SUCCESS
    Build your team
    Be available
    Be quick to communicate
    change
    Be transparent with "rough
    waters" (risks, change)
    Be open-minded
    Challenge conventional
    thinking
    Build trust
    EMBRACE NAIVETE

    Ask "dumb" questions


    Trust your SMEs
    Be vulnerable about what
    you don't know
    Embrace lessons learned
    BE A PROJECT LEADER
    Motivate and empower your
    team
    Be a manager of people FIRST
    Build two-way trust
    Take ALL the notes
    Be limber and adaptable
    Learn to delegate
    Put your money where your
    mouth is
    Take responsibility
    Defend your team
    ORGANIZED OWL

    Be organized
    Use templates
    OVERdocument
    Step in to lead during
    silence
    Step out when creativity
    is flowing
    ENCOURAGE SUCCESS

    Initiate change intelligently


    Weaponize motivation
    Share and inspire others to
    Be cutting-edge
    Progress over perfection
    Celebrate your wins
    KNOW YOUR LIMITS

    HUMANS work on projects (not


    perfect robots)
    Play to your strengths
    Leave egos at the door
    Embrace your "uniqueness"
    KNOW YOUR ROLE
    Do what YOU do
    Be constantly aware of the
    project's pulse
    Watch out for creeping and
    risks
    Be the PROJECT expert
    Know your goals
    Know your needs
    Put some action into your tasks
    GET THAT BUY-IN

    ID ALL stakeholders
    Be a project salesman/closer
    Establish continuous feedback
    loops
    Get support for the "big picture"
    Manage mischief (and
    expectations)
    FALL INTO FAILURE

    Fail and recover


    Every task you either win or
    you learn
    Deliver what's NEEDED
    Plan with success in mind
    EXPERIENCE = BEST TEACHER

    Can't fake experience


    Get dirty by getting involved
    early
    Build relationships first
    Plan with success in mind
    Coffee is for closers (AKA "ABC"
    - Always. Be. Closing)
    WHAT DO
    YOU THINK?

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