After a lot of hard work and dedication you did it! You are finally a project
manager, congratulations, I'm gonna help you get rid of your jitters, or any
stress that you have on your first day as a project manager, by giving you some
tips on what to do, now if you really want to master projects at the end of
this video, I'm gonna share with you a cheat sheet on why projects fail, and
what you can do to avoid them, stay tuned for that
Hi, if you're new here welcome, my name is Adriana Girdler, I'm a business
productivity specialist, and a certified project manager, if you want excel in
your career, subscribe to my channel and every Wednesday you're gonna get a brand
new video, becoming a project manager is a great step in your career, your first
day on the job however, can be a little bit stressful, in this video I'm gonna
share with you some key things that you can do on your first day of the
job as a project manager, get to know the key players, it is really important on
your first day to find out who the supervisor is, stakeholders, sponsors, what
projects you're going to be working on, who are your team members, get to know them,
be casual, chatty, really go out there and introduce
yourself, I have a great video and introducing yourself on the first day of
the job, this will help you tremendously, and people getting to know you as a
project manager, create an opportunity for team bonding, now on your first day
you may have already been given your team and projects to work on, so you're
probably going to be reaching out to those team members, you know what, there's
a few things you can do to really make the bonding between everyone smooth and
easy, and what a great way to know people, it's really simple, you can take them
up for lunch, and then you guys can just get to know each other, or if you're in a
meeting you can formalize it by having some team bonding activities, check out
my videos on some team bonding activity ideas, there's some cool fun things you
can do to really start bringing the team together, you, now, as the leader can lead,
build your credibility, from day one you want to show your team that you are
reliable, and they can count on you, this is really important, communication is
going to be key for this, but more importantly, you want to practice what
you preach, and follow-through, so for example, if you say hi everybody, I'm your
manager for the next couple of weeks, I'm going to do some observation, do it, don't
say it, do it, and then ensure that you report back to them on those
observations, you want to really close the loop on things, so show them that
you're reliable, remember, build up your credibility, make
your availability clear, all right, as a project manager your team is constantly
gonna be coming to you as they should, to help resolve issues and problems, that is
your job, however, you also have a job too, you need time carved out so you can get
your work done, lots of paper that you have to ensure that everyone is on the
same page with, so, that all being said, make sure you're really clear with your
team, on your available hours, it's just gonna help everybody out, so people
aren't interrupting you constantly, and then you don't feel slightly resentful,
because you're not getting your work done, now what I do when I manage
projects is, I have, I put this out, power hour, magic in progress, my team knows not
to interrupt me, now, when I do have availability, I put in, power hour is over,
come on in, you can make one of these yourself, or you can go to my store and
you can purchase it yourself, now if you have a door, we also have door hangers -
easy-peasy for you to make it yourself or grab it on my store, it's up to you,
scope out the break room, I know this kind of seems really silly, like what do
we mean scope up the break room, but you'll be amazed what you can get from
sitting in a break room, and listening to people, and talking to people, you can
find out a lot about what's going on in people's lives, but more importantly, what
the culture is in the organization, if this is your first day, and you're brand
new to the company as well, you're going to learn a lot about the company culture,
which is critical for you from a project management standpoint, and ask them how
are project seeing in the organization, because not every company is a project
positive company, and have that focus, so scoping out the break room, talking to
people, really going on the casual side, not sort of formal, just opens up people
to share more stuff with you, now don't forget, don't gossip, this is
not about gossiping, check out my videos on bad politics and gossiping, not a good
thing, but definitely hang out there, and understand what the culture is, so that
you can know what you can do in order to make sure that your projects sing, review
your roles and responsibilities, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, you're saying Adriana, I
already know what I'm supposed to do, I got hired, I know specifically how am I
gonna go about doing it, but whoa, wait a minute, there's nothing wrong with
getting a refresher, or being really clear on what those rules and
responsibilities are, if you got a job description take a peek at it again, and
make sure that you're following suit with what's being said, but sometimes job
descriptions are very high-level, and don't give you enough information, check
out my video on what project managers do to get even more information on the
nuances that you don't think about when it comes to project management, and that
role now that you're gonna have a great first day out of the job as a project
manager, it is time for you to grab this cheat sheet from the link below really
telling you why projects fail, and how to avoid them, so if you're gonna be a
project manager this is a must for you to download, because it's going to give
you some tips and tricks that are gonna help you out, please subscribe to my
channel, like this video, and share it with all the professionals that you know,
now tell me how your first day on the job went, and if you have any
other tips or tricks you'd like to share with the viewers as well, until
then have a great day bye bye