Four Essential PM Skills You Won't Learn from the PMBOK® Guide

Date: Friday, June 9 - Saturday, June 10, 2017
Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Northpoint Executive Suites Alpharetta, 11175 Cicero Drive, Suite 100, Alpharetta, GA 30022

PDU Breakdown: Technical: 9, Leadership: 8, Strategic: 3
PDUs: PMP/PgMP: 20 / PMI-ACP: 11 / PMI-SP: 12 / PMI-RMP: 14 / PMI-PBA: 17  (Max no. of PDUs that can be earned towards each certification)

Description:
This bundle of classes provides 4 half-day sessions (approximately $1,200 in value):

• Organization and Project Leadership Skills - There are many characteristics and traits of a good leader that are difficult to define. Most are skills that are developed over time but how can someone achieve them? This portion of the class will explore the qualities of leadership and provide a better understanding of how to develop these skills. It will also demonstrate specific areas that require focus and the different roles and behaviors a leader must have to be successful. As a result, each student can build an action plan, based on their own style, to become a good leader.
  
  Course Objectives:
  

  • Organization and Project Leadership Skills –
  • Understand what leadership is and identify effective leadership behaviors
  • Develop a vision and enable your team to execute on your vision
  • Understand leadership responsibilities in terms of training and succession planning. Identify various leadership styles and when to use them
  • Understand how to coach and develop teams
  • Learn how to motivate and empower
  • Learn effective delegation
  • Learn to instill values, ethics and trust

  Course Details:
  

  Date: Friday, June 9, 2017 - 8:00am - 12:00pm
  PDUs: 4 hrs
  PDU: 0 Technical / 4 Leadership / 0 Strategic (plus pre/post work equaling 1hr.)

• Negotiating for Success – Negotiating is a critical business skill in establishing agreements between parties. This section of the course teaches the fundamentals for successful negotiation including establishing requirements, tactics to utilize, and influencing negotiations. It also covers the guidelines for conducting a successful negotiation and facilitating communication. Students will also learn how to gain control in a negotiation, use various negotiation tactics, and deal with unethical negotiation tactics.
  
  Course Objectives:
  

  • Plan a negotiation and what influences a negotiation
  • Gather information about the other party
  • Formulate a plan for agreement
  • Conduct and control a successful negotiation
  • Recognize different tactics used for advantage during negotiation

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  Date: Friday, June 9, 2017 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
  PDUs: 4 hrs
  PDU: 0 Technical / 2 Leadership / 2 Strategic (plus pre/post work equaling 1hr.)

• Managing Project Issues – Issues are major problems that require outside help to resolve. Issues can potentially doom a project. Therefore identifying and managing issues are critical success factors. Project managers may come in contact with issues as part of their management routine; however effectively managing them is far from a routine activity. An unresolved issue could directly impact cost, scope and time and the development and execution of an issue management plan is the project manager’s best weapon. This part of the class focuses on determining if a situation or problem is a true issue and, if so, helps determine the most effective way to manage it. Students will create a practical issue management plan, evaluate the impact of issues, and use tools and techniques for determining viable resolution options.

  Course Objectives:
  

  • Understand what issues are and the implications of not addressing them
  • Establish an issue management process when defining the project work, and follow it throughout the project
  • Utilize problem solving techniques to determine viable issue resolution alternatives
  • Understand the roles and responsibilities for issue management

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  Date: Saturday, June 10, 2017 - 8:00am - 12:00pm
  PDUs: 4 hrs
  PDU: 3 Technical / 1 Leadership / 0 Strategic (plus pre/post work equaling 1hr.)

• Recovering Troubled Projects - When is the last time you worked on a project that was planned and executed perfectly and where you met expectations in terms of budget, deadline and product quality? Although no project is absolutely perfect, most projects are probably completed with an “acceptable” amount of problems and stress. Of course, there are other projects that meet the criteria of “troubled”. These projects have significant problems in meeting their deadline, budget or deliverables – perhaps all three. The purpose of this topic is to help determine whether a project is “troubled” and if so, to lay out a process to turn the project around. A troubled project is too far gone to meet the original expectations. However, this part of the class will show you processes and techniques designed to reset expectations and then to successfully deliver the project to meet the revised commitments.
  
  Course Objectives:
  

  • Determine if a project is “troubled”?
  • Define and plan a recovery project.
  • Assess the cause of the troubled project.
  • Develop and activate a recovery plan.
  • Ensure the troubled project completes within revised expectations.

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  Date: Saturday, June 10, 2017 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
  PDUs: 4 hrs
  PDU: 2 Technical / 1 Leadership / 1 Strategic (plus pre/post work equaling 1hr.)

Who Should Attend:

• Project managers
• Managers, staff members, customers, and clients who are affected by these topics

Instructor:

Tom Mochal, PMP®, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP, TSPM, ITBMC

Pricing for the two-day class is as follows:

• PMI Atlanta Chapter Member (discount rate) - $576.00
• Non-member (standard rate) - $772.00

Early Bird Special through May 25, 2017:
• PMI Atlanta Chapter Member (discount rate) - $518.40
• Non-member (standard rate) - $714.40