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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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.

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

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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