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Handling Scope Creep With Grace as a Project Manager

Are you a project manager looking to keep your project's scope under control without always having to be the bad guy? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

- Good scope control starts long before the ask

- Use the Yes-No-Yes framework to stay firm but positive

- Mature project managers protect value and relationships

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Are you one of the many project leaders who didn't pass your PMP exam on first attempt? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• The exam is as much about mindset and test-taking as it is about knowledge.

• Your score report is a free blueprint for your next success.

• Book the next attempt. You’re not starting from zero, you're starting from experience.

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How to Prioritize Competing Priorities as a Project Manager.

Are you an overwhelmed project manager looking to make sense of what work you should take on first? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Balancing priorities requires different tools at different times

• Some tasks necessitate leap-frogging task management, but it can't be everything

• The most dangerous way to prioritize isn't being inefficient, but simply performing work that should never have been done in the first place

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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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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

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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"

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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

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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.

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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.

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5 Types of Project Sponsors and How Best to Manage Them

Are you a project manager struggling to engage with your project sponsor or wondering for how you can become a rockstar PM in their eyes? If so, this episode is for you.

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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