Project Management

Overview:

This webinar gives you the fundamentals of effective project management with an emphasis on the "human side".

As the need to focus on schedules, costs, and quality continues to increase across every organization, it is more important than ever to understand the major inhibitors to achieving project success; most of which are human factors- not technical in nature.

You'll learn techniques that can have an immediate and positive impact on your current as well as your future projects and help both yourself and others be successful along the way.

Why you should Attend:

• Are new to Project Management
• Run into "People-Based" issues when trying to manage a project
• Want to take a more "holistic-people-focused" approach to Project Management

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Poll Questions help focus the webinar to your needs
• Latest research around the importance of people skills in project management
• Phase # 1 - Task Definition & Planning- Nine Steps to Fact Finding with Your Sponsor- Focus on Collective Risk Assessment and Identifying power/influence sources
• Phase 2 - Planning "The How" - Focus on being mindful of peoples needs through the team development cycle
• Phase # 3- Implementing the Plan "The Work" - Focus on "Checking in" with your Project Team not checking "up" and the importance of collective project post-mortems
• The evolving relationship between project and change management

Who Will Benefit:

• Anyone that leads projects- small or large - or are about to

Instructor:

Tony White is often referred to as the "people skill specialist," as he speaks and train on numerous disciplines ranging from communication and team leadership to change management and negotiation skills. "Energizing, practical, and relevant," describes his style of presentation. He has facilitated training workshops, delivered keynote addresses & facilitated high-level executive initiatives for a broad cross section of business, education, and government organizations for over twenty-five years.

Tony is the author of "Make It Happen - A Practical Handbook for Team Leaders, Project Managers and Facilitators to Build, Facilitate and Repair High Performance Teams.