Todd Williams PMP
Todd C. Williams, PMP (LinkedIn profile @BackFromRed) is a professional audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing, and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure
. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike.
Project failure is prevalent in all projects. Todd’s Back From Red TM blog addresses the reasons for project failure along with methods to avert and correct the problems that cause the failure. Follow him on Twitter @backFromRed and read his blog.
There is a A Learning Guide For “Rescue The Problem Project” that builds the WBS for rescuing your problem projects.
Rescuing Red Projects
In this interview Todd C. Williams author of “Rescue the Problem Project”, will discuss causes of project failure. This will range from the failure sources at the highest level—misalignment to corporate strategy—to organizational issues, to lower level issues such as technology. He will explain the steps to:
- Straighten out a wayward project,
- Get it back on track, and the need to
- Address root causes.
Join Todd and learn how to prevent your project from becoming the problem project. And if you’re already there, we’ll discuss strategies to help you rescue the project.
Click to learn how to earn 10 More PDUs with Todds Book and the Learning Guide to Rescue the Problem Project
Kevin Ciccotti CPCC, ACC
Presenter: Kevin Ciccotti CPCC, ACC, (LinkedIn profile) is a Certified Professional Coach and founder of Human Factor Formula. For more than 25 years Kevin has focused on the key behavioral elements that drive human performance and decision-making, and provides Project Managers with tools to better understand themselves, their coworkers, their teams.
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…
- Understand the barriers to high performance teams
- Learn the drivers and four dimensions of a high performing team
- 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.
Once you register, you will be given access to the session schedule and speaker’s swag.
