Top 7 Ways to Become a More Influential Project Manager

The video provides seven tips for project managers to enhance their influence. It emphasizes the importance of posture, becoming an authority, focusing on a niche, using silence effectively, prioritizing process over answers, evaluating critically, and setting boundaries to gain respect. These strategies help project managers lead without authority by persuading and influencing others.

What is one way to project confidence and increase your influence?

• Use complex jargon

• Speak very quickly

• Maintain a symmetric and upright posture

• Avoid eye contact

How can you establish yourself as an authority in your field?

• By working alone

• By avoiding feedback

• By asking insightful questions

• By having all the answers

Why is it important to focus on a specific niche?

• To make work easier

• To limit your opportunities

• To avoid competition

• To become an expert in that area

What is a strategic use of silence in communication?

• To avoid answering questions

• To show disinterest

• To make others uncomfortable

• To think carefully and enhance your influence

Why should you focus on the process rather than just the solution?

• To avoid responsibility

• To ensure a consistent approach

• To make tasks longer

• To confuse others

What is a key aspect of critical thinking?

• Accepting information at face value

• Relying on intuition

• Asking detailed questions and evaluating logic

• Ignoring feedback

How can saying 'no' appropriately affect your professional relationships?

• It can make others dislike you

• It can lead to fewer opportunities

• It can earn you respect for valuing your time

• It can make you seem uncooperative