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19. No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects
Category: People and Leadership Skills
Instructor: Neal Whitten, PMP
Level: All

2-Day Seminar
CEUs
PDUs

1.4

14

PMI Member
Early Rate

PMI Member
Regular Rate

Nonmember
Rate

$1,180.00 (US)

$1,299.00 (US)

$1,525.00 (US)

Successful projects dont just happenthey are

made to happen. Popular speaker and best selling PM author Neal Whitten takes
leadership and project management to a personal level and reveals leading-edge best
practices that make all the difference between leading consistently successful projects
and playing the victim with troubled projects. Focusing mostly on leadership and soft
skills, but including hard skills and life skills, this seminar reveals choices to make and
behaviors to adopt that are invaluable in helping a person become a successful project
manager and leader.
Based largely on Neals new book, Neal Whittens No-Nonsense Advice for Successful
Projects, Neal has collected practices from among his favorite and most effective
many learned too slowly and painfully. Adopting one can benefit your project; adopting
many can benefit your career. Its not about the ability of those around you to lead; its
about your ability to lead, despite that which is happening around you.
Who should attend?
This seminar is for project managersboth rookies and seasoned veteransas well
as for project leaders, program managers, project sponsors, resource managers, senior
managers and executives, and anyone and everyone else who aspires to become a
consistently effective project manager or leader.
What will my seminar experience cover?
Leadership styles
Being too soft
Managing priorities
Fostering interpersonal communications
Professional behavior and recognizing professional immaturity
Dealing with criticism
The alternative to making long-term project commitments
Running an effective meeting
The need to fail
Dealing with difficult people
Duties of the effective project manager/resource manager/project sponsor
How technical should a PM or resource manager be
Giving customers what they neednot what they want
How much contingency buffer is enough
Three critical actions that are overlooked on most projects.
Scheduled Locations:
22-23 April Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
19-20 May Seattle, Washington, USA
23-24 June Orlando, Florida. USA
11-12 August Washington, DC, USA
12-13 November Scottsdale, Arizona. USA

20. Power, Influence and Politics in

Project Management (2-day version)
Category: People and Leadership Skills
Instructor: Vijay K. Verma, MBA, PE, PMP
Level: Intermediate/Advanced

2-Day Seminar
CEUs
PDUs

1.4

14

PMI Member
Early Rate

PMI Member
Regular Rate

Nonmember
Rate

$1,180.00 (US)

$1,299.00 (US)

$1,525.00 (US)

Gain the power you need to influence others and get the job done!
Ignoring the external and internal politics surrounding your project can be hazardous
to your projects health. Successful project managers understand the importance
of managing stakeholders through leadership and influence. This course will help
you analyze the political context in your organization and convert your adversaries
and opponents into your allies. The techniques and reminders covered in this highly
interactive and engaging workshop will give you many practical tips that you can
immediately use to understand and manage politics in your own organization. You
will evaluate, improve and refine your project management and leadership skills and
learn practical strategies to increase your total power.
Who should attend?
This workshop is appropriate for anyoneat any experience levelswho needs to
lead projects, manage stakeholders, build relationships, negotiate successfully and
work with others to achieve results while minimizing unwanted surprises.
What will my seminar experience cover?

Power and Influence: Sources of power; characteristics and outcomes of
power; project manager and power; and techniques to increase your
total power.

Politics in Project Management: Analysis of political behaviors of project
stakeholders and political context in your organization; strategies to
convert your adversaries and opponents into your allies; and managing
politics at the project level and at the upper management level.

Project Leadership: Leader versus manager; leadership and the project

life cycle.
How will I benefit?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

Recognize the importance of human factors in project management;

Understand the importance and dynamics of power and politics;

Identify eight sources of power and evaluate strategies to increase total
power;

Identify political behaviors and analyze the political context in your

organization;

Develop strategies to convert your adversaries and opponents into your allies;

Manage power and politics at the project level and at the upper management

level.
Scheduled Locations:

78 April Denver, Colorado, USA

1415 July San Antonio. Texas, USA

1011 November Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

89 December San Diego, California, USA

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