2007 Annual Professional Development Day

Click here to read "Neal Whitten Discusses Leadership at Development Day Event" in the Chapter Links section of PMI today (July 2007)

Project Management and Leadership
No Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Presented by:

Neal Whitten, PMP

Holiday Inn Turf on Wolf Road
(205 Wolf Road, Albany NY 12205)

Registration:
Members $275 / non-members $300 / students* $225
* Fulltime Student ID Required at Registration

You can claim the seven PDU's earned at the April 18th Professional Development Day online by following this process:

  • Go to www.pmi.org and under "Professional Development & Careers" select "Certification Program", then "Continuing Certification Requirements" and then "Claim/View PDUs"
  • Enter your PMP#, PMI# and Password to Login
  • Select "PDU Reporting Form" and then Category 3. Under Option 2, enter the name 'Whitten' and select the button 'Find Provider'
  • Select 'The Neal Whitten Group, Inc'
  • Select button 1513-081981, which is for Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects. Continue through the process for entering PDU's by entering your e-mail address, phone number, Title of Course, Activity Date, and PDUs earned (7)
Neal Whitten

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. 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.

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, how to make 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. No theories here! This stuff works! Come prepared to rethink what constitutes effective leadership and project management. You won’t want to miss this!

Learning Objectives

  • 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 and organizational concepts.

Speaker Bio

As a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Neal is a contributing editor of PMI’s PM Network magazine and trusted author of several best-selling PM books. Neal’s experience spans 30 years of front-line project management, software engineering, and human resource experience - 23 years with IBM.

In a mentoring fashion, industry-acclaimed speaker, trainer, author, and mentor, Neal Whitten, takes leadership and project management to a personal level imparting leading-edge best practices.

Based on his newest best-selling book, No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects, Neal lends his expertise by merging employee development and project management tools and techniques into a day of power-packed training. Neal guides you through the critical path to gain insight and competence to consistently execute wildly successful projects by:

  • Making deliberate, effortless, and natural decisions.
  • Fostering leadership and adapting powerful soft skills.
  • Boosting your confidence by taking charge and making things happen.
  • Creating a culture that promotes the success of your project.
Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects


Attendees receive the book:
Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects.