What We Wish We'd Known on Day One as Project Managers

Your first day as a project manager rarely looks like the textbook. You get a project, a team you did not choose, and a deadline someone already promised the client. There is no checklist. Asking feels awkward. Victoria Klymenko and Alina Piddubna both started from scratch. Alina first found herself in a project manager's role in 2008, at a bank. Today they consult companies, build project management methodologies and have spent years preparing people for project work and for PMI certifications. This webinar is a conversation. Victoria and Alina will talk about what it was like for them at the start. What turned out to matter. Where they lost time and nerves for nothing. What actually happens in a project manager's first days at a new place, and how to keep your footing. Then the bigger question. What does a modern project manager need in 2026? AI tools, hybrid teams, distributed work, employers who expect results from week one. Which of it you need on day one and which can wait. At the end each of them will give her own recommendations to someone starting out. Then open Q&A. Why attend live? Because the useful part of a conversation like this is your question, asked out loud, answered by two people who have heard it many times from their students. If after the webinar you want a structured foundation, INSTAR's PM Essentials course starts on November 11.