Dawn Mahan’s Best Project Management Advice: Cheerleaders, Finicky Fans, & Saboteurs in Projectland

Dawn Mahan is a Project Management educator who uses the concept of Projectland to help us understand our roles as Project Leaders. In this conversation, she shares her best project management advice.

Three – Two – One

In this interview I ask Dawn Mahan for her best:

• 3️⃣ Tips for Project Managers
• 2️⃣ Project Management Tools
  Favorite thinking, planning, facilitation, or software tools to use on projects
• 1️⃣ Thing that changed everything for her.
  Maybe this was in their thinking, attitudes to projects, career, the way they practice PM. Anything that made a big difference to them

We discuss what each means and any stories behind them.

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What we Discussed

• 00:00 – Dawn Mahan
• 01:01 – Three Top Tips for Project Managers – Tip 1
• 01:58 – Three Top Tips for Project Managers – Tip 2
• 05:05 – Three Top Tips for Project Managers – Tip 3
• 06:10 – Two Favorite Project management Tools #1
• 07:32 – Two Favorite Project management Tools #2
• 08:50 – One thing that really changed everything for Dawn Mahan
• 12:00 – Welcome to Projectland
• 13:29 – Contact Dawn Mahan

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What Kit does a Project Manager Need?

I asked Project Managers in a couple of forums what material things you need to have, to do your job as a Project Manager. They responded magnificently. I compiled their answers into a Kit list. I added my own. 

Check out the Kit a Project Manager needs

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