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Bad PM sayings/behaviors - are you done yet? What is the status of X? Please update this health tracker?
Good PM sayings/behaviors - how can I help with this? Here are the next steps to get this resolved since I’ve experienced this in the past. Focus your energy on the deliverable and I will protect you from shifting priorities and irrational sponsors/stakeholders.
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Project managers are responsible for supporting and unblocking their team through organization, cross-functional collaboration, and prioritization.
Status reporting is the bare minimum and often what bad project managers assume all they’re responsible for is.
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Understand the individual activities planned well enough to anticipate challenges and de-risk. Understand the critical path and accelerate milestone achievement. Keep morale high.
Offering support without micromanaging
Good managers provide opportunities to gain responsibilities
The best PMs are knowledgeable about all upstream and downstream impacts of decisions, have a good understanding of the ins and outs of each work stream and is not just a hands off, high level timeline planner, understands how to proactively manage risk rather than being reactive, and can speak the language of business.
The ability to appropriately predict what needs to be done before it hits you with the 'urgent' tag.
+edit: and control the dialog if that is not 'exactly' what is required but can be massaged easily into what is acceptable (i.e. I know what you're asking for, we have this, so give us another day or so and it will have moat of what you asked for, and I think that should suffice).