Dinner Meeting - 170925

"Project Leadership: Moving to a Higher Level"
presented by Michael Wilkinson, Leadership Strategies, Inc. 

Join us for our bi-monthly dinner meeting! Earn up to 2 PDU while building your professional network, viewing new products and services, and enjoying dinner. Earn 1 PDU for attending the Professional Development session and 1 PDU for the Dinner Meeting Keynote Presentation.

Newcomers Meeting - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

If you are a new member to PMI Atlanta, you do not want to miss this opportunity to hear how PMI Atlanta can help you achieve your goals and meet members of the leadership team. 

Professional Development - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

"15 Irrefutable Laws of Growth" presented by Gladys Agwai, Ignite Within, LLC

Keynote Presentation - 6:30pm - 8:00pm

"Project Leadership: Moving to a Higher Level" presented by Michael Wilkinson, Leadership Strategies, Inc. 

Professional Development Session

To reach your highest potential, you must grow. And to grow you must be highly intentional about it. Learn how to grow and develop yourself so you have the BEST chance of becoming the person you were created to be. This session will help you understand how growth works and help you become a more effective and fulfilled individual. Remember EVERYTHING begins with YOU! The specifics of growth change from person to person, but the principles are the same for every person. Do you want to become better than you are today? In this session, you will learn the key that unlocks the door to your growth!

Biography

Gladys Agwai is Founder and CEO of Ignite Within transitioning after 30 years as a corporate executive within IBM. Ignite Within moves its clients away from their fears to live and work in their highest purpose. After 30 years as a corporate executive leader within IBM in the US, Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya, across multiple industries and functions, she leveraged her experiences to make this non-fear based transformative transition as a business owner. As an author and John Maxwell International Certified Coach, Speaker, Teacher, and Strategist, she provides inspirational and progressive enrichment programs to optimize individuals and businesses in the areas of self and business discovery, leadership strategies and values, transformative non-fear based transitions, and business strategy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and a Master of Science in Management and Human Resources.

Gladys has had a positive impact on others through the mentoring and coaching of individuals and over 100 small businesses’ growth and development.

Keynote Presentation Details

As a project manager, you already know how to develop a work breakdown structure, create tasks, assign resources, monitor progress, and adjust timelines. So rather than project management, this workshop is about moving your project leadership skills to a higher level.

What is the difference between a manager and a leader?  How do you inspire your team members to excel to the best of their abilities?  How do you build trust and empower the team to higher levels of success? In this highly engaging and dynamic workshop, Michael Wilkinson, the founder of Leadership Strategies and author of The Secrets of Facilitation, will review the seven principles for taking a facilitative approach to project leadership and share key strategies you can use immediately to raise your leadership skills to a higher level.

Biography

Michael Wilkinson is the Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, Inc. – The Facilitation Company, the largest provider of professional facilitators and facilitation training in the U.S., with over 500 facilitators under contract and over 20,000 trained in their flagship course, The Effective Facilitator.

Michael is a national leader in the facilitation industry. 

• Author of five books, including The Secrets of Facilitation, The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy and CLICK: The Virtual Meetings Book
• Founder of the FindaFacilitator database
• Founder of the IAF Facilitation Impact Awards
• Board member of the International Institute for Facilitation
• Named Facilitator of the Year in 2003 by the Southeast Association of Facilitators
• Named to the Facilitation Hall of Fame in 2016

Active around the world in both the private and public sectors, he has provided consulting and training to hundreds of organizations across a variety of industries in over 15 countries.

Looking for the e-book? Get the Kindle edition at Amazon.com.

Thoroughly revised and updated, Michael Wilkinson’s 2nd edition of The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. Wilkinson, a leading Certified Master Facilitator, has trained thousands of managers, mediators, analysts, and consultants around the world to apply the power of SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) facilitation to achieve amazing results with teams and task forces. He shows how anyone can use these proven group techniques in conflict resolution, consulting, managing, presenting, teaching, planning, selling, and other professional as well as personal situations.

This 2nd edition includes new chapters that highlight timely topics such as: facilitating virtual meetings; facilitating very large groups; facilitating conferences; and building an internal facilitator capability. The book also offers new cross-cultural examples and an ancillary website with forms, checklists and a sample facilitator guide.

When

Monday, September 25, 2017, 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

The Westin Atlanta Perimeter North, 7 Concourse Pkwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30328 

Fees

Please Note:  Early Bird Registration expires Monday, August 21, 2017 at 11:59pm.   

**Effective immediately - We will no longer be accepting cash/checks for walk-ins**