Julie Raeder 🔥

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I add accelerant to aspiring project managers' career pivots ⛽

Unorthodox Project Manager who likes to help others break into project management in new and unique ways!

I do this by helping aspiring project managers ID pain points for why they aren't getting PM opportunities.
These typically present as one of three deficiencies:
> Lack of identified relevant experience
> Improper resume presentation
> Poor/underutilized tactics for networking

Once identified, we work through ways they can improve those pain points and leverage them appropriately for a new opportunity

Background about me and project management experience: 

I spent 7.5 years in laboratory bench science while gaining project management experience.  Obtained my PMP certification in 2018, was officially promoted to Research Project Manager in 2020, and now am a Senior Project Manager with our Enterprise Project Management Office, overseeing highly-visible strategic projects across our healthcare org's Midwest footprint.

Other PM experience:
- Project oversight of multiple preclinical gene therapies
- Project management of small molecule and repurposed drug screening projects
- Establishment of a standalone screening facility to collaborate with other research institutions, pharmaceutical, and therapeutics companies

Logan Langin, PMP

Urgency has become a substitute for strategy

Everything feels urgent now.

Slack messages.
Multiple meetings.
Emails marked high priority.

Urgency creates motion.

But motion isn't the same as direction.

When everything is urgent:
👉 Priorities blur
👉 Quality drops
👉 People react instead of think

Strategy doesn't eliminate urgency.

It gives context.

It answers "what can wait and what can't?" "What matters even if it's quiet?"

Calm isn't the absence of pressure.

It's the presence of perspective.

The most effective teams don't move the fastest.

They move intentionally.

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Busy is often a symptom

Not a badge of honor.

When work feels chaotic, people get busy.

They respond faster.
They attend more meetings.
They say "yes" more often.

Busyness feels productive.

It feels responsible.

But it's often a coping mechanism for uncertainty.

When priorities are clear, people don't need to prove their value with motion.

They can slow down.
They can focus.
They can choose.

If your days feel full but unsatisfying, don't ask HOW to do more.

Ask what's creating the need to stay busy in the first place.

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We don't have a productivity problem

We have a decision problem.

Most teams aren't slow because they lack tools or talent.

They're slow because decisions are:
→ Deferred
→ Diffused
→ Revisited/revised
→ Softened until they mean nothing

So work starts without alignment and then restarts without warning.

Productivity doesn't break down when people stop working.

It breaks down when no one knows who can say "yes" or "no."

Clear decisions:
✅ Reduce meetings
✅ Prevent rework
✅ Lower anxiety
✅ Speed everything up

If progress feels harder than it should, look upstream.

There's a good chance the work isn't blocked by effort.

It's blocked by indecision.

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Clarity is a leadership decision

Not a communication skill.

Most teams don't lack communication.  They lack decisions.

So they talk more.
Document more.
Meet more.

But clarity doesn't come from explaining things better.

It comes from deciding things sooner.

Decisions create:
✅ Boundaries
✅ Momentum
✅ Focus

Without them, communication just fills the gap.

If people keep asking the same questions, it's not because they weren't listening.

It's because something was never decided.

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Meetings aren't the problem

Misaligned intentions are.

Meetings get blamed for a lot.

Too many.
Too long.
Too draining or misaligned.

Meetings aren't broken, but they are carrying too many hidden agendas.

People show up for many different reasons.

✅ To get decisions made
✅ To share needs, concerns, wins, etc.
✅ To be informed
✅ To be heard

With all of these reasons, it's hard to know which is which and how to handle each.

So conversations wander.
Decisions stall.
Follow-ups multiply.

Effective meetings aren't about better facilitation.

They're about clear intent.

Why are we here?
What should be different when we leave?

When intention is aligned, meetings become shorter, more targeted.

Or unnecessary.

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Being busy isn't leadership

Direction is.

Some of the most overwhelmed people at work are also the most reliable.

They're always booked.
They're always responding.
They're always "on top of things."

And still, progress feels slower than it should.

Effective leadership isn't just about keeping things moving.

It's about deciding what movement MATTERS.

Calendars create motion.  Leadership creates directions.

And direction sounds like:
✅ "This is the priority, everything else can wait."
✅ "The decision matters more than perfect execution."
✅ "We're not ready to move yet, and that's intentional."

The people who create momentum aren't the busiest.

They're the clearest.

If you can get a whole team operating on clarity, the sky is the limit for what you can do.

👉

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