What separates the best project managers from the rest? What behaviors or mentalities make them stand out?

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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.

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Offering support without micromanaging

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Good managers provide opportunities to gain responsibilities

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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.

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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).

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