The Project Management Podcast - Project Management Coaching and Mentoring - A How-To Guide | Episode 325

https://www.pm-podcast.com/325. Have you ever considered being a project management mentor to another PM in your network? I can tell you from personal experience that while project management coaching sounds like a lot of work the return on investment that you personally get out of it is immense. And so, when I received an email from Jeff Furman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefffurmanlinkedin) and he offered to discuss some of the mentoring approaches that he uses as a project management coach I was all for it. In our discussion Jeff and I review: Staying in touch Answering questions Helping people connect Helping out on social media for project managers Writing recommendations Recommending resources Guiding your mentees to become mentors themselves And last but not least… Speed Mentoring As you can probably already tell, none of these project management mentoring approaches are rocket science. But we still have some good best practices for you to follow. Coaching and mentoring is useful for all project managers, but it's especially useful in emerging roles, or where you don't feel that your job description is particularly clear -- the role of project manager in SAFe agile springs to mind as an important position, but perhaps one that is less understood than 'traditional' approaches to being a project manager.