Have any of you have felt like an imposter in your career? I'm an IT project manager, and this feeling of not being good enough hits me regularly. Even though I get positive feedback, I still feel like I'm not up to the mark. I am expected to understand a lot of different things, but I am not the ones directly doing the technical work. This can make it tough sometimes.
For me, there are a couple of things that trigger my imposter syndrome. Since we’re not always in the technical detail, I sometimes feel lost in meetings. It's impossible to know everything about every topic in real-time, but I still end up feeling like I lack the knowledge for my role. Also, managing teams and their dynamics is a big part of what we do. I think I do a decent job, but my current program doesn't have a dedicated team. We pull in resources from across the organization, so there's not much of a "team" vibe. This makes our sync-ups dull and the engineers seem disengaged. I've heard other PMs face the same issue, but it still makes me doubt my abilities.
Can anyone help me with this?