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Creating a good and lasting first Impression

Lessons as a PM / /

For any successful career, building and maintaining a great relationship is critical.For building a good relationship beginning is the most important part where you have the opportunity to make a good first impression.

I always believed this to be important but was hoping someone would give me 5 simple things I could do that would help me do that. I came across a video by Todd Dewett, which had these simple steps.

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Project Manger performance management

Managing poor performance as a Project Manager

Lessons as a PM / /

As a Project/ Program Manager, Your world would be great if everyone would perform the best! but in reality, it’s not true and there is plenty of performance issues that we as project managers need to address. I have also noticed that most leaders don’t enjoy sharing feedback on poor performance with their team, but TRUE leaders never back off from such a difficult conversation.

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critical Thinking

Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making

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As a project manager, on average, I take at least 5 decisions in a day..🙂 It could be a decision to onboard a resource or Add/ remove tasks from my WBS and a decision to change the schedule, various risks based decisions, project budget-based decisions, and so on.. That means it’s naturally important for me to learn and improve my critical thinking and decision-making ability. While I was looking for some pointers around this, I came across this training in LinkedIn Learning.

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The Psychology of Money

The Psychology of Money – (Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness )

Book Summaries / /

I liked this book because it helped me reaffirm some of my beliefs around why savings is important and how to be content with your earnings. Also, it is important to be patient when it comes to growing money and we should always be prepared for any financial adversities that may occur. Progress happens too slowly to notice, but setbacks happen too quickly to ignore. Finally, have enough money so that it gives you the ability to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, for as long as you want to.

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How to say No

Simple Rules for When and How to say No – At work

Lessons as a PM / /

I always struggled, in fact even now I find it very difficult to say No to random requests and favors that come my way. It’s important to be helpful, positive, and civil but you have to carve out time for yourself every day in order to get your work done and meet your deadlines. Here I talk about when and how to say No and also do that without hurting anybody’s feelings.

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