| Topic: Three Personal Competencies Every Project Manager Needs to Get More Out of his PMP®
Date:
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
All registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-in's will be accepted the day of the event. Registration ends Sunday, March 5th at 7:00PM.
Location:
Sears Tower
67th Floor 233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606
(312) 876-3200
Driving directions. Speaker: Jack Ferraro, PMP
Agenda
6:00 Registration
and Networking
6:30 Announcements
6:45 Dinner
7:45 Raffle
8:00 Presentation
9:00 Close
Presentation Abstract: You are a hardworking project management professional, PMP ® . You have your WBS, stakeholder analysis, risk response plan, communications plan, resource histogram, schedule with 5,000 tasks, and a critical path.
And your sponsor, team leaders, and stakeholders couldn't care less.
You convince yourself, it has to be my organization's low project management maturity; it can't be me. Maybe, maybe not.
How do you determine if it is you or your client that's blocking progress? How can you really achieve project management excellence? How do you measure it? If you can't, are you at risk of becoming irrelevant? This presentation examines these questions as well as current methods for developing the kind of competency that really matters. It presents bold ideas for what practitioners of project management must focus on to raise the performance bar and to avoid the risk of becoming extinct!
We will explore three critical personal competencies that project managers must be keenly aware of to move beyond the PMP ® to true Project Management Professionalism. With your PMP ® certification as a solid foundation, we'll explore how you can overcome predictable project leadership roadblocks through these personal competencies:
• Building Trusted Relationships Trusted relationships are the oil that keeps your project machine humming. Learn the characteristics of true trust-based relationships and how to develop and maintain them with team members, customers, and sponsors
• Advising on Projects Accountability without real authority is a project management challenge. Learn how to become an effective project advisor by mastering the consultative leadership process and understand why this skill is desperately needed
• Developing Courage Change without the pain! Understand the level of commitment needed and how to manage this change in your project management career
You'll leave this talk with a road map to start fresh with the right balance of personal competencies. You will leave with a renewed passion for your project management profession. Attend this session to discover whether or not you have the courage to make the leap from the PMP ® to Project Management Professionalism!
As a result of this talk, you'll be better able to
- Identify the basic components of building trust-based relationships on projects, the benefits of such relationships and the practical applications of building long-lasting trust-based relationships
- Use trust-based relationships to become a project advisor, and see why customers and team members want the proper advice
- Use practical applications to advise team members, customers and sponsors in order to achieve buy-in, commitment to act, and generate positive energy
Overcome obstacles, and develop the courage needed to manage change in your professions and measure personal competencies that really matter in your career
About the Speaker:
Jack Ferraro is the founder of MyProjectAdvisorTM He has 15 years of adult training and education experience and has conducted training sessions and developed project management courses and leadership workshops for project managers. With over 18 years' experience working with project teams, including extensive consulting experience with Global 500 companies, Jack has successfully managed international complex enterprise technology and business process improvement projects.
Jack is a consultant, trainer, and mentor for project managers and teams seeking to excel at strategic project management. He has developed a leadership development program, "Break-Through Project Management", to help project managers build their leadership skills and important personal competencies. Jack conducts workshops and coaches project managers and teams in dynamic fashion.
He has published articles for PM Network, PMI's monthly magazine, including:
Successful Sourcing PM Network April 2002
Begin with the End PM Network February 2003
A Question of Trust PM Network December 2004
Jack is a popular international speaker on project management leadership and competency. He has spoken at the:
o PMI Global Congress North America 2004 Do You Trust That Project Manager in the Mirror?
o PMI Global Congress EMEA 2005 Self Directed Leadership Development Beyond the PMP!
Jack is a PMI member since 1999 and a member of Washington DC PMI chapter. Jack was a volunteer on the PMI's OPM3 project and frequently writes and lectures on project management competency trends. Registration:
Register at www.pmi-chicagoland.org. Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. Registration ends Sunday, Mar 5th at 7:00PM.
Contact the Director of Programs at programs@pmi-chicagoland.org if you have any further questions or concerns regarding this event.
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