All-Day Seminar Presentation

The Best of Neal Whitten

When: September 22, 2005
Where: Ramada Inn
1510 Jefferson Street
Jefferson City, MO
Cost: The price for this workshop is $125 for PMI members and $135 for non-members.

Please register early to guarantee a place in the seminar! The Chapter will not accept requests for refunds 10 days prior to the event.

Please send an email to pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org to RSVP with the attendees, payment information, and any special dietary needs.

Lunch will be provided as part of this workshop.

Schedule:
8:30 - 12:00 Morning Session
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:30 Afternoon Session

About the Workshop:

Presentation Abstract: Successful projects don't just happen-they are made to happen. Popular speaker and best selling PM author Neal Whitten takes leadership and project management to a personal level and reveals leading-edge best practices that make all the difference between leading consistently successful projects and playing the victim with troubled projects. Focusing mostly on leadership and soft skills, but including hard skills and life skills, this seminar reveals choices to make and behaviors to adopt that are invaluable in helping a person become a successful project manager and leader. Based largely on Neal's new book, Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects, Neal has collected practices from among his favorite and most effective-many learned too slowly and painfully. Adopting one can benefit your project; adopting many can benefit your career. An example: It's not about the ability of those around you to lead; it's about your ability to lead, despite that which is happening around you. No theories here! This stuff works! Come prepared to rethink what constitutes effective leadership and project management. You won't want to miss this!

(Topics include: leadership styles, being too soft, managing priorities, fostering interpersonal communications, boldness, escalations, integrity, accountability, professional behavior and recognizing professional immaturity, dealing with criticism, making long-term project commitments, running an effective meeting, duties of the effective project manager, the need to fail, dealing with difficult people, three critical actions that are overlooked on most projects, and many more specific leadership tips for promoting project success.)

Materials include the book: Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects.

Learning Objectives for Promotional Material:

  • Identify best practices that will cause your behavior, decisions, and actions to become more deliberate, effortless, and natural as you lead
  • Identify personal attributes-leadership and soft skills-that contribute to your success and the success of your project
  • Recognize how to boost your confidence in taking charge and making things happen
  • Create a culture that fosters the success of your project
  • Identify ideas that promote the advancement of project management/organizational concepts

Speaker Biography:

Neal Whitten, PMP

Neal Whitten, PMP, is a popular speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and author in the areas of both project management and employee development. He is the author of five books of which his newest book is Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects.

Neal has over 30 years of front-line project management experience, of which 23 years were with IBM. He has developed and instructed dozens of leadership, project management and software development classes, and presented to thousands of people from across hundreds of companies, institutions and public organizations.

Neal is a member of PMI, is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and is a contributing editor of PMI's PM Network magazine. Neal can be reached through his website at www.nealwhittengroup.com.