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Episode 056 - How to become a conservation project manager

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Here are a six techniques to develop on your way to becoming a conservation project manager.

Technique #1. Work on Your conservation Project Management Skills
Technique #2. Focus on Your Team Management Skills - that's right become a leader and a manager!
Technique #3. Use a Project Management Software
Technique #4. Learn the Agile Project Methodology
Technique #5. Focus your team on the Kanban Method
Technique #6. Look Up Some Project Management Blogs, Podcasts, Forums, or join PMI

To end today’s episode I thought I would share a few key attributes that you might find in a conservation project manager job description. 

  • Independence and Judgment – Strong ability to work independently with little manager oversight, and exercises exceptional judgment when interpreting issues, problems or opportunities.
  • Manages Ambiguity – Highly effective and efficient in situations involving uncertainty or lack of information.  Strong ability to identify desired outcomes and deliver outcomes, thereby driving towards the achievement of goals.
  • Personal Flexibility – Strong ability to recognize, adjust and adapt to environmental or business/cultural nuances, and displays emotional maturity in all situations.
  • Build and Maintain Relationships – Strong ability to build and maintain rapport and trust by building strong relationships with direct team, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.
  • Team Player – Highly effective amongst multiple individuals at various levels.  Diplomatic and comfortable in sharing ideas and solving problems in a collaborative environment.
  • Communication – Displays exceptional verbal, written and listing for understanding skills.  Strong ability to tailor communication style to specific audiences.
  • Ethics and Integrity – Displays ethical work habits every day and in all situations.  Conducts work with uncompromised personal integrity, 'common sense', and sense of right and wrong – regardless of the situation.
  • ​Passion for Improvement- Actively looks for ways to improve processes and make things better.
  • ​Self-Starter-Takes Initiative to go beyond client expectations.  Finds ways to benefit learn and grow from under-challenging roles.  Comprehends and maximizes personal strengths, while actively improving upon weaknesses.
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The 30 Best Project Management Blogs of 2020:
  • ProjectManagement.com
  • A Girl’s Guide to Project Management
  • Productivity Land
  • Capterra Project Management Blog
  • Yodiz Project Management Blog
  • PMStudent.com
  • Age of Product – Agile best practices
  • nTask Project Management Blog
  • The Lazy Project Manager
  • PM Basics – Project Management Blog
  • The Tao of Project Management
  • Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice
  • The Green Project Management Blog
  • Gina Abudi
  • The Digital Project Manager
  • Project Management Tips
  • Project Lab
  • Musings on Project Management
  • ProjectSmart
  • The IIL Blog
  • The Susanne Madsen Blog
  • Apiumhub Blog for Agile Project Management
  • How to Manage a Camel
  • Project Bliss
  • Project Management Hut
  • Mike Cohn’s Blog
  • DZone Agile
  • Finding Marbles
  • Project Smart
  • PM Column

Thank you to nTaskManager.com for helping to compile a blog list that we love to follow every year.

The FEEDSPOT!

Our friends at the Feedspot do an amazing job picking out the Best Podcasts for all industries and topics.
Here is a link to their Best of Project Management Podcasts. 

There are a few podcasts that we really love in this list. The first one is the PMI Projectfied podcast. Let us know if you love it too!
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