<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Life in Libraries]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[cbecker53]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com/author/cbecker53/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Sure, I Can Manage That&nbsp;Project!]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Projects.  We have LOTS of projects in libraries.  Sometimes you&#8217;ll be working on a project with people you supervise.  Sometimes you&#8217;ll be working with colleagues in your library.  Other times you&#8217;ll be working on projects with people in other parts of the community, or university, or in other libraries.</p>
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<p>When you&#8217;re in charge of a project, you&#8217;re the Project Manager.  You may be saying &#8220;I am?!  I don&#8217;t know how to be a project manager!&#8221;  If you&#8217;ve been made the project manager by your supervisor, chances are he or she thinks you already possess the skills to be a project manager.  But maybe, you just need to learn on your own.  Maybe you&#8217;ve been involved in projects before, and can remember what that project leader did right or wrong—so you can use those lessons to help you.</p>
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<p>And, you can read <a title="project manager" href="http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2013/10/03/7-ways-to-be-a-better-project-manager-when-you-arent-one/" target="_blank">7 Ways to Be a Better Project Manager When You Aren&#8217;t One</a>.  Here&#8217;s a couple of those ways:</p>
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<li>Understand what the project is.</li>
<li>Be compulsively organized.</li>
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<p>But you want to know more, right?  So read the whole article!</p>
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