Is it worth it to be a Project Manager? Part 1 of 2

In this podcast, Ricardo reflects on the profession of project management and talks about three links that the project manager needs to build during his career to make the profession worthwhile for him to society and to the company. He comments that the project manager needs to prepare like any other profession and that the path to becoming a great project manager is not simple.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes BM podcasts today. I like to make a reflection. Is it worth to be a project manager and why I'm making this reflection this week and why? This came to my mind about a month ago, I received an Skype message from Micheal in Brazil, and he puts just a line.

And the line is what is the percentage of the project manager that is working as project manager, that we want to change the profession and do it. This makes me think thought a lot. It took me about one month to record this podcast, I think, and why this, because I'm completely the passionate about what I do. I'm very successful in what I do as project manager.

And I receive it. Hundreds of questions about the professional and everything salaries. How do I develop myself? But this was the first time that they receive. It is a question coming from someone that is raising questions about the profession and thinking about that. You don't want to talk. And for us, the straight people, but project management, as all professions ask the great site and also the terrible side.

It's great, but it's not perfect. And it's good for those who can understand and develop proper abilities. So we are so important to understand this because to make a successful project manager, it's not only study one thing that amazed me, it's people looking okay. I want to certify. And after I got started, the fire that Dan, that haven't, I will open up the space for me.

And then I will be a perfect professional. This is not true. Always try to elude ourselves. The life is much more complex. The project is much more complex. The business environment is far more complex than we think. So we need to know you understand that to be successful. We need to build a chain and every single part of the chain is important. The first part is that this, I don't see too much questions about that is to study.

You need to prepare your need to understand the proper techniques to apply in this kind of environment that is different from routine and two, do that. You will look for credentials. You look to become PMP and develop yourself and the technical skill gills to be a good project manager. But this is not enough. The second thing we need to understand that we work in companies and inside this company is not everybody thinks the same.

We have political environment, we have power. We have the people that do not believe that this it can work and they are not the, an exception for sure. 10 years ago, it was different. It was different. And we are reducing the Raza stance to proper planning, but we will find many, many things. Times chiefs, bosses, managers asking us, Oh, forgot this planet and do that.

Most of them, you mean at times and does is the second piece of our ring. And to do that, we need to convince people in. Even we need sometimes to be lucky, to work with people that are open minded and not everybody is like, this life is not easy. Business. Life is not easy. Be set up. It is not only a matter of luck. We need to work extremely hard to reduce the resistors, to show up.

For me, people value to show people the Valley. It's not only becoming, sitting in our desk in wait for something happen. We need to be the drivers of this change. Every single project manager needs to drive changing their organization, but this is not the case. Sometimes when I listen to people and why this, because the people they become certified and they just want that great things happen.

This will not work. I'm pretty sure that this will not work and I'm talking. And I think, and I have power it and life and example, to talk about that, to become successful. It's very hard. And the third piece of this ring, this change is a big chain. The turd wring of the day, the big change, his commitment, desire, the desire to make something in, not weight, that someone will do something for you.

And this I'm not talking about the value or project management of this professional, but the value of Madison, the value of that players, not everybody will succeed. We need to understand that the success will depend and we'll rely on our own Fort, not all five, six, seven year old boy that loves play soccer will become one of the top, top soccer players in the planet that will make a lot of money.

A lot of power we'll become a celebrity. There's is not the case in this workout is a for basketball, for businessmen, for it and for everything. And this will work also for project managers. The next week. You like to reflect a little bit more and tried to help you to address this Valley. Try to help you to develop yourself, to raise your ability. You see the Valley in the professional and to be more successful.

I hope you enjoyed this podcast and see you next week with another five minutes. Bam. Podcast bye.

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