Topic: Smart People, Dumb Mistakes

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Registration:
Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. The Registration deadline is Sunday evening, December 9th at midnight. Seating is limited. Registration may close earlier if seating capacity is filled. Contact the Director - Registration for further discussion.

Registration

Location:
The Fountain Blue
2300 South Mannheim Road
Des Plaines, IL 60018
(847) 298-3636

Speaker:
Anthony Mersino, PMP
Founder, Project Advisors Group

Agenda:
6:00 Registration and Networking
6:30 Announcements
6:45 Dinner
7:45 Raffle
8:00 Presentation
9:00 Close

Abstract:
This presentation shows that smart and successful people are not immune to dumb mistakes when it comes to emotional intelligence. Without emotional intelligence, project managers are at risk of making dumb mistakes which can set back or derail their careers. Project managers may also fail in more subtle ways if they lack interpersonal skills and charisma. Otherwise great project managers may find their careers stalled based on their ability to relate to, influence, or collaborate with others.

Research shows that emotional intelligence (EQ) is just as important to project managers as IQ or PMBOK® knowledge. In fact, recent PMI-sponsored research has shown that successful project managers need different EQ competencies to manage different types of projects. Fortunately, these EQ competencies can be learned.

Learn which EQ competencies are most important to the success of your projects, the typical EQ profile for project managers, and how to boost your own EQ to succeed on your projects.

About the Speaker:
Anthony Mersino is the founder of the Project Advisors Group, a consulting firm that helps project leaders reach their potential. With over 22 years experience as a project manager, he has worked as an independent project management consultant for Abbott Laboratories, MWH Global, and the National Opinion Research Center. Before founding the Project Advisors Group, Anthony led projects for IBM, Unisys, FutureNext, and Ameritech.

Anthony has been teaching project management and leadership courses for ESI
International and Northwestern University since 2002. Anthony’s interest in project
leadership issues led him to study how to apply emotional intelligence to improve
project management. He recently authored Emotional Intelligence for Project
Managers: the People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results, which has
been published by AMACOM.

Anthony has an undergraduate degree from Michigan State University, and
earned his M.B.A. from Loyola College in Maryland. He is a member of the
Association for Information Technology Professionals, the Project Management
Institute, and the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management. He has been a PMP since 1995.

Registration:
Register using the link above. Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. The Registration deadline is Sunday evening, December 9th at midnight. Seating is limited. Registration may close earlier if the seating capacity is filled. Contact the Director of Registration for further discussion.

Contact the Director of Programs at programs@pmi-chicagoland.org if you have any questions or concerns regarding the content of this event.