Live Webinar August 5th, 2014 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 75 Minutes webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Change Management CoP (REP #S056)

In the execution of a project, collaboration is inevitable. Requiring a combination of skills, knowledge and resources, projects often attract numerous participants from various cultural backgrounds.

Consequently, a great variety of cultural differences and similarities, as well as distinct practices and differing values and interests for participation, emerge when firms and people come together in a project organization.

In this webinar Karen will present the outcomes of her Ph.D. research, which focus on the people-side of project management. She will introduce a new perspective on project management and, in light of the Panama Canal Expansion Program, describe how project participants deal with the cultural complexity in their everyday work life.

Stressing the need for explicit attention to cross-cultural collaboration, and based on the research outcomes, the webinar finishes with both cultural risks in project management and suggestions for the Project Manager.

Note: You do have to be a PMI® member to register for this opportunity.

Presenter:  Karen Smits PHD (LinkedIn profile  @Karen_Smits) is an Organizational Anthropologist, and Trainer in Business Culture. Ph.D. Author of Cross Culture Work in Panama Canal Expansion Program. Curious, straight-forward and always smiling, Karen is an excellent speaker on Cross Culture Collaboration.  You can read her blog at  http://crossculturework.com/  or order her book Cross Culture Work: Practices of Collaboration in the Panama Canal Expansion Program online.,

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