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There will be times as a project manager where you contemplate the value of your role, and you might see others doing the same thing. It’s easy to do, because the role is varied, and a lot of what you do can go unseen by many. If that is the case, be sure that you’re aware of the expectations placed on your role. Are you holding up to that? Then ask yourself a few difficult questions:

• Am I contributing to the project in a positive way?

• Do my team and my clients/stakeholders know what I do with my time?

• How active am I on my projects? Am I watching things happen, or am I driving them forward?

• When was the last time I actually spoke (with words, in-person or by phone) with my team?

If you’re a good PM, you are an active member of the collective project team. So, if you are answering these questions and finding that you’re really not showing that you are (or want to be) an active part of the team, you’re headed down the wrong path. In order to gain any respect, you have to display an investment in your project, or the rest of the team will lose respect for you. You can’t just throw a plan together, schedule and check off the to-dos, and call it a day. You must engage in the project and know everything about it and your team.