My colleague does not believe I should be called a PM

Joan Cugell Project Manager| The MIL Corporation Mt Pleasant, Sc, United States

My colleague does not believe I should be called a PM, which I am a PMP and have done PM work most of my career. My colleague thinks a PM does not do any work; they just manage to budget and the project plan. However, I disagree. I think PMs do a lot of project work to get the project accomplished. How should I respond to my colleague?

Posted: May 10, 2022 8:59 AM

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Yasmina Khelifi Senior Project Manager Paris, France

May 12, 2022 2:25 PM

Replying to Sarah Chverchko

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Yasmina - never apologize for answering passionately, or for anything other than an actual tangible error ("oops, I didn't carry the 1 in that calculation, sorry about that"). :-)

Don't undermine your own credibility or imply that the emotion is inappropriate. Women have enough people doing that to them already without piling on ourselves; be confident, you are not an impostor. :-)

thank you Sarah!

Posted: May 14, 2022 8:54 AM

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