Positive Leadership in Project Management

When a person is assigned as a project manager, he or she is placed in a leadership position, regardless of size and complexity of the project. The project manager then assumes both leadership and management responsibilities. There are many theories and suggestions about what a successful leader is and there will probably always be some debate about what qualities truly make an effective leader. Positive leadership, I believe is one of the key success criteria. Leaders who display enthusiasm, some emotion, a willingness to take risks and accept the occasional mistake as a learning experience and who take the time to recognize and acknowledge the work of their teams are displaying positive leadership. Positive leaders create WOW teams and produce WOW projects and emphasize professionalism, and excellence in execution and delivery.

Project Management Books By Frank Saladis:

• Bringing the PMBOK Guide to Life: A Companion for the Practicing Project Manager
  
• What Executives Need to Know About Project Management (The IIL/Wiley Series in Project Management)
• What Functional Managers Need to Know About Project Management (The IIL/Wiley Series in Project Management)
• Value-Driven Project Management (The IIL/Wiley Series in Project Management)
• Project Management Workbook and PMP/CAPM Exam Study Guide , 9th Edition

Reggie Hammond MBA

Reggie Hammond (LinkedIn profile) has committed his professional career to delivering business critical initiatives for the individuals and organizations he has engaged. As Managing Partner for Your Crescendo, Reggie provides coaching and sessions to help individuals and organizations create purpose, awareness and impactful living within their organizations.

Reggie passionately pursues his purpose to help others discover and actively impact the world through living their purpose. As a part of that purpose Reggie is a strong supporter of “Create Your Dreams” youth development program in the Atlanta area that promotes education and hard work, helping students to break the cycle of generational poverty and create a brighter future for themselves.  Reggie encourages you to look at Supporting his great cause.

Successful Project Delivery Through Purpose and Engagement

Projects fail more often than we care to admit.  How frequently varies by the study, but few argue that number is significant and opportunistic – unless you’re referring to their projects.  It’s been estimated that $12 trillion dollars a year is spent on projects a year.  That’s about a fifth of the world’s GDP.  The question is why do they fail.  This has been studied substantially as well.  The common element these studies highlight are people factors.  This, you can likely relate to your project. Think about the people on your project.  How many of them are fully engaged?  How many bring their full presence to the tasks.  How many are there to check off their tasks on the workplan and collect their checks at the pay period?  Our discussion will explore how engagement and purpose drives successful project delivery.  And how you can drive engagement on your project to raise the likelihood success.

Irene Becker

Irene Becker (LinkedIn profile @JustCoachIt) Irene is a C-Suite Leadership Coach who focuses on  Transformational Leadership with her 3Q Edge IQ – EQ and SQ  —- IQ (Intelligence Quotient)To enhance focus, ideation, ability to learn-relearn – EQ (Emotional Quotient) To improve emotional intelligence, communication, engagement & resiliency – And SQ  (Social / Spiritual Quotient) to build purpose, values alignment, leadership.

As CEO of a successful multi-million dollar company, and the accoutrements of success she had taken for granted, Irene faced a life crisis that forced to to rely upon her values.  She came to learn that the “greatest power we hold is not in what we have, but in who we truly are when we choose to ignite, engage and unleash the leader or hero within. Our greatest power lies in our ability to use what is to create what can be in our self, our lives, our relationships, our leadership and our work.”

Irene founded Just Coach IT to help organizations understand the importance of all three Q’s for success.  Read the articles on her Blog and learn more about the 3 Q’s at Will YOU Make The Critical Shift Forward? 

Learn more about how Irene Turns Conflict around – Read the “Archived Twitter Chats” with Irene including “#IBMswchat From Conflict To Connection: Using Conflict To Build Engagement/Rapport“, “Conflict Resolution with Irene Becker #pmchat 7 June 2013” and “Questions & Answers Conflict Resolution with Irene Becker Part 2 #pmchat 14 June 2013“.

Achieving Project Success Through 3Q Leadership

3Q Leadership is a methodology that is unique. It helps clients optimize strengths and USE challenges, stressors and failures to succeed.  In this session, you will learn

1. The seven ways to TURN CONFLICT AROUND
2. STEPS that will help you achieve, reach, resonance and results with internal and external stakeholders,
3. Recognize when and how to adjust your communication style,
4. Develop reach, resonance and results across social, digital and cross generational boundaries!

Stop being a volunteer fireman/firewoman. Your job as a project managers is not just to plan your work and put out fires.  Tune into this session and start using fires to empower, engage and develop the communication, collaboration and results that drive project success.

Jim Stewart

Jim Stewart (Linkedin Profile, @JimPStewart) With over 20 years experience in IT, Jim has managed numerous multi-million dollar international infrastructure and software development programs. As principal of JPStewart Associates since 2003, Jim is engaged in multiple endeavors including consulting, training and mentoring. A Project Management Professional since 2001, he has trained hundreds of PMP’s via both virtual and on-site sessions. He also provides on-site training to corporations in Risk and Project Management basics.  Check out Jims Blog The Useful PM.

The Use of Assessments in Gauging Project Maturity

Studies show that a significant number of projects either fail outright or don’t meet all of their objectives. This is not due to a failure of project management as a discipline. It’s due largely to a failure to correctly engage the tools and techniques of project management. Sometimes this happens at the grass roots level but as often as not, these processes are not well understood at the senior management level.  There are various maturity models that speak to how well a company runs its projects from the ad hoc “chaos” level up to the fully optimized level. And the problem is that too many companies run at or near the ad hoc level, endlessly churning and repeating the same mistakes. In this talk I’ll discuss a model of project maturity and how the bar can be raised by using assessments to gauge both project manager maturity and the healthiness of your projects.

Dev Ramcharan

Dev Ramcharan (LinkedIn profile) has focused on implementing effective, multi-level Project Management Office organizations in both Private and Public Sectors for the last 20 years. Dev has spoken internationally at PMI sponsored events (Cairo, Egypt, at two P2P (Projects to the Point) conferences, and presented “Transforming your PMO into a Centre of Excellence” at the PMI Global Conference in Washington, DC.

Building a Career as a Project Management Professional

The presentation/interview is focused on an area of vital interest to project management practitioners, i.e.,  charting and managing a career path in project management. In our conversation we will cover  all the stages of a career in our profession: entry level, mid-career, and late stage practice, including a brief summary of effectiveness in consulting. Guidance is also provided on an overall approach to developing a career management plan. We will share with you FREE of charge a tool that will help you evaluate job opportunities and devise a career plan to become more successful as a project management practitioner.

A PDU Opportunity With Dev & PMI Government CoP 
Optimize your Career as a PM In Government (Cat A)

Peter De Jager

Peter de Jager (LinkedIn profile  @pdejager)  is a very highly respected keynote speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to managing change of all shapes and sizes in all types of organizations. He has published hundreds of articles on Problem Solving, Creativity and Change Management – to the impact of technology on areas such as Privacy, Security and Business Issues appearing in publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.

Peter is best known to IT audiences for his efforts to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue – For which he received several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies.  He has also written several regular columns and presented sessions to world class organizations.

Peter has spoken in over 35 countries recognized worldwide as an exciting, humorous, provocative and engaging speaker.

Peter’s Kindle publications include A Pocket Full Of Change about Organizational Change,  So? You’re a Manager… Now What?, and Truth Picks Vol I. A Truth Pick is a short, pointed commentary on a popular quote – For Peter these “Truth Picks” was a personal morning meditation he was publishing – which  blossomed until several thousand people were reading them on a daily basis.

Peters presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively – provocative. He entices the audience, by demonstrating conflicts between their stated beliefs and behaviors, to think differently about what they thought they knew. You can read much of his work in the publications section of www.technobility.com and view his videos at Vimeo.com/technobility.

The Mythical Man Month

In 1975, Frederick P. Brooks Jr. published “The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering”, a collection of insightful observations on how large computer projects fail, flounder and sometimes even succeed. Close to 40 years later, the Mythical man-month is still as relevant as it ever was – if not as well known and as well read as it should be by project managers in all fields of endeavour.

**NOTE** This session is presented by Peter de Jager with the express permission of the author. Peter will focus on the key idea in the book. That throwing extra resources at a late project, will just make it later. He’ll address why this is so, what we might do about it, and even why we continue – 30+ years later – to fall into the thought trap that 10 people can dig a hole 10 times faster than one person. The Presentation will, of course, include other concepts in the book, but the core of the presentation will focus on Brooks’ Law – why it’s true, why it matters, and what it means to the success and failure of your next project.

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Project Leadership: The World Needs your Genius and it Needs your Leadership

In this thought-provoking talk about project leadership Susanne Madsen will show you how you can differentiate yourself from the competition and improve your performance without spending long hours in the office. You will learn to avoid fire fighting, unhappy clients and project failure and instead use the project you are currently working on to propel yourself to the next level.

No matter your level of experience there are powerful lessons to be learnt from this talk:

• Understand the differences between management and leadership
• Learn to apply the most powerful project leadership strategies
• Focus on the 20% of activities that add to 80% of your results
• Build a high performing team
• Avoid failure and redundancy
• Become a more inspirational and appealing leader
• Win the trust of sceptical stakeholders

Peter De Jager

Peter de Jager (LinkedIn profile  @pdejager)  is a very highly respected keynote speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to managing change of all shapes and sizes in all types of organizations. He has published hundreds of articles on Problem Solving, Creativity and Change Management – to the impact of technology on areas such as Privacy, Security and Business Issues appearing in publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.

Peter is best known to IT audiences for his efforts to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue – For which he received several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies.  He has also written several regular columns and presented sessions to world class organizations.

Peter has spoken in over 35 countries recognized worldwide as an exciting, humorous, provocative and engaging speaker.

Peter’s Kindle publications include A Pocket Full Of Change about Organizational Change,  So? You’re a Manager… Now What?, and Truth Picks Vol I. A Truth Pick is a short, pointed commentary on a popular quote – For Peter these “Truth Picks” was a personal morning meditation he was publishing – which  blossomed until several thousand people were reading them on a daily basis.

Peters presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively – provocative. He entices the audience, by demonstrating conflicts between their stated beliefs and behaviors, to think differently about what they thought they knew. You can read much of his work in the publications section of www.technobility.com and view his videos at Vimeo.com/technobility.

The Seven Key Questions of Change Management

What must we do to bring about a Change initiative as smoothly as possible? Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!

This isn’t exactly news. We sort of get this. I can ask any audience to tell me the ‘secret’ to good Change and they repeat back “Communicate, Communicate and Communicate some more!” as if its been forcefully injected into their cerebellum. The problem arises when the questioning becomes a bit more detailed, “What exactly should we Communicate?”

The response to that question is usually either a blank stare or the reasonable recitation of the reporter’s standby; Who, What, Where, When, How and Why. Not a bad start. If you’re writing a news article, then these are good solid questions. The Change Management problem requires all of those, and a few others. It’s not that the reporter’s questions are a poor tool, it’s just that they don’t address the peculiar psychology of the Change challenge.

In this presentation, Peter will present a “Pareto Spanning Set” of questions. These questions will cover the bulk of the key concerns of those facing any change.

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Traci Duez

Traci Duez (LinkedIn profile)  is an accomplished and sought-after speaker. She has spoken at over 100 events in the last 4 years including international locations such as Trinidad, Canada, and Amsterdam. Traci is the CEO Axiogenics a Certified Coach, and a member of the John Maxwell Team as well as the author of Breaking Free: Leading the Way: Learning First to Lead Yourself  Traci Has an excellent grasp of “Breaking Free” though her  20+ years experiencing various roles from medical technologist to laboratory informatics specialist; from project manager to director of an IT consulting firm.

5 Steps to Grow Your Influence, Lead Effectively, and Deliver Better Results

• Every choice that you make comes down to a judgment in value.
• Do you know the principles of Value Dynamics?
• Did you know that there is a mathematically based science (axiology) that can teach you how to make better choices?

Your influence is a matter of your ability to judge value. Your effectiveness as a leader and your ability to prioritize and deliver quality results are dependent upon your ability to judge value. In this presentation and interview, you will learn the basics of Axiology’s Hierarchy of Value (HOV). You will also discover how to measure your own Personal HOV and how to use your best perspectives to make better choices and take better actions. We will discuss how your VQs (value judgment quotients) are far more important than your IQ or EQ. Finally you will learn how to focus on generating value from your strengths and how to strengthen your strengths to achieve more success.

Christian Bisson PMP

Christian Bisson (LinkedIn profile) has been a team leader, a production director, and eventually chosen the path of project management where he obtained his PMP certification. He loves to manage, organize, lead, find solutions, but mostly, I love to improve everything – causing “Continuous Improvement Initiatives” where ever he goes!

Share Christian focus on the impacts that real teams can have on productivity with this terrific session and make sure not to miss reading his blog.

Making the Most of Continuous Improvement in Project Management

“Continuous improvement”: an ongoing effort to improve what we do, how we work, who we are. It’s important since if our tools, our processes, our team, and we evolve, then all of our projects evolve. Isn’t it obvious we must consider improvement in our everyday lives?

Yet continuous improvement persists to stay secondary in our filled schedules. Why? How can we change that? In this presentation, Christian will explain the challenges of continuous improvement and give strategies and tips to help tackle them and get you on your way to improving every aspect of your projects and your career.

Michael Charles

Michael Charles PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach who speaks on leadership and team development.  Michael did a great webinar for the PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004) called Communicating to Connect (which is worth 1 Category A PDU).  Michael has led several teams as a Project Manager founded the “Light The World Foundation“, a charity founded in 2009 to educate children in Haiti.  Their 4th Annual Charity Concert will be July 12th, 2014.

Project Management at the Speed of Trust

When you have to quickly develop a team and get them working together to achieve a common goal, trust become a very important factor. Trust is the foundation on influence and without influence we cannot do our jobs well as project managers.

Trust could be the difference between the success and the failure of the project. Join us and learn

1. The economics of trust
2. Behaviors that helps build trust quickly
3. Techniques you can use to genuinely build trust  with your team members and stakeholders to achieve more with your team

The Human Factor in Project Management

One of the biggest challenges to successful project implementation is the evolution of the project team. The challenge of taking a diverse group of individuals, with varying backgrounds and experience, from different functional areas, and placing them on a project team with a PM who has no direct authority, can severely undermine the success of any project.

In “The Human Factor in Project Management,” Kevin offers cutting-edge insights and strategies for developing world-class leadership skills, building more resonant relationships, and getting teams to commit and work together more effectively from the outset. These tools are on the leading edge of leadership strategies and human behavior, and are essential to the success of Project Managers.

Rob Prinzo PMP

Rob Prinzo PMP (LinkedIn, @RobPrinzo) is author of the excellent book –  No Wishing Required – The Business Case for Project Assurance,   as well as Project Soup: Recipes for Managing to Success and Collaborative Intervention: How to Identify, Assess and Intervene in Troubled Technology & Transformation Projects.    He is also one of the co-founders of #PMCHAT a twitter Chat held Fridays at 12 PM ET.

An archive of the 2013 #PMChats can be found at https://storify.com/EdmontonPM/#stories.  These discussions include the Chats Video Links and More to compliment the topics.  Hit the “View All” link on the right side of the page to view all of the Chats.

How to Assure Project Success: No Wishing Required

When it comes to software implementation projects, most organizations are left wishing that things had been done differently. Industry statistics show that a large percentage of enterprise software implementations fail to deliver anticipated results ranging from missed deadlines and cost overruns to disgruntled users or unimplemented software. Even if a project is considered ‘successful’, the shear effort alone can take a toll on project team members and the organization as a whole.

Based on the insights uncovered in his book, Collaborative Intervention: How to Identify, Assess and Intervene in Troubled Business Technology and Transformation Projects, Rob Prinzo reveals his unique methodology designed to overcome the issues faced by enterprise software implementation teams.

From this interview, attendees will learn: the six critical points in every project, an easy to use methodology for conducting project assessments, best practices for developing collaborative team behavior and a working understanding of tools and techniques to build a communications-centric foundation for the entire project team – from executives to end-users.

Joie Seldon

Joie Seldon, M.A. (LinkedIn profile) is a business results coach and an innovator in the field of Emotional Intelligence. Her workbook, “Emotions: An Owner’s Manual” will be published later this year. She is the founder of Emotion Education and creator of Practice Your Pitch Workshops. A master improvisation teacher, Joie was a professional actor and acting teacher for thirty years. She holds an M.A. in Somatic Counseling Psychology. Her work as a somatic therapist and entrepreneur led her to helping business professionals learn practical skills and overcome internal blocks to success.

The Power of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Project Managers have many challenges – unrealistic deadlines, lack of resources, constant demands and unclear stakeholders – to name a few. Every additional challenge adds more pressure.

Whether it’s dealing with team members or the challenges of being the one in charge, stress, frustration, anger, disappointment, fear and anxiety are actually normal feelings that arise when under pressure. Naming and understanding the function of these emotions, and how to deal with them, has enormous impact on communication and performance.

By attending this event members will . . .

• Learn practical fundamentals you can apply to managing stress.
• Understand the impact of unconscious or unacknowledged emotions on communication.
• Learn an important key to managing teams.

Michael Charles

Michael Charles PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach who speaks on leadership and team development.  Michael did a great webinar for the PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004) called Communicating to Connect (which is worth 1 Category A PDU).  Michael has led several teams as a Project Manager founded the “Light The World Foundation“, a charity founded in 2009 to educate children in Haiti.  Their 4th Annual Charity Concert will be July 12th, 2014.

Visit Michael’s site “The PM Leadership Coach” and Read his “Leading With Intent” blog

The 4 Dimensions of High Performance Teams

Leading a high-performing team is every Project Managers dream. With a high performing team, projects get delivered on time, on budget and to client’s specifications and the project leader and the team members are not stressed out and do not lose much sleep over it. Join us for this FREE pre-conference webinar series and…

1. Understand the barriers to high performance teams
2. Learn the drivers and four dimensions of a high performing team
3. Learn practical tips on how to start developing your own high performance project team

Karen Smits PHD

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.

Culture and Collaboration in Project Management

In the execution of a project, collaboration is inevitable. Requiring a combination of skills, knowledge and resources, projects often attract numerous participants, each bringing their own cultural background to the project organization. With a focus on research data that I gathered in the Panama Canal Expansion Program, I will elaborate on cross-cultural collaboration in mega projects. The practices of collaboration that came to the fore are illustrated in the Collabyrinth and portray how project participants deal with the cultural complexity in their everyday work life.

Dave L. Davis PMP PgMP

Dave L. Davis PMP PgMP  is a self-proclaimed practitioner of WOW!  Dave Davis has enough credentials that all the associated acronyms would make a full bowl of vegetable soup.  A proven dynamic, creative, and enthusiastic leader.   Dave has the unique ability to share his experience in a light hearted effective style that educates and motivates.  He has shared his message in many web publications and presentations throughout Europe and North America. Few people can combine business intelligence with strong leadership and a sense for using structured Program Management to further a company’s strategy like he can. He stays on top of emerging technologies and its associated social impact, and knows what can benefit an organization.

Leadership Through WOW!
Patton, Powell, Mandela and Moeller

Inspiration is the arousal of the mind to motivate extraordinary activity or creativity.  Leaders inspire so a team can produce more than is theoretically possible.  A leader inspires, but how do we know what it is when we see it, and how can a person learn to recognize and use it?

This presentation examines inspiration and examples of inspirations in all facets of our life and how these lessons can be used to improve leadership skills.  Drawing from a wide range of personal expertise and continuous learning, Dave will present a grab bag of different ways inspiration can be found in our lives.  Whether it is a story of inspiration or a real life example, there is a core set of values and behaviors that facilitate inspiration.

This interview will explore those values and behaviors as well as give glimpses of a grab bag of inspiration examples. You will leave this session with a better realization of how people are inspired and how you also can inspire others.

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