2010 Annual Professional Development Day
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 pm
Desmond Hotel and Conference Center
660 Albany Shaker Road - Albany, NY 12211
A Full-Day Workshop Presented by:
Earn 7 Professional Development Units
Fees and Registration:
PMI members: $250 before 1/31, $275 after 1/31
Non-Members: $275 before 1/31, $300 after 1/31
Students: $200 before 1/31, $225 after 1/31
PDD 2010 Event Registration
Fee includes seminar, materials, breakfast, lunch and a copy of the book, Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success ...Over 700 Q&As.
Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead to exceptional performance. When we understand what is expected of us in the workplace, our performance rises to the occasion. How would you like to ask - and listen-in as others ask - a recognized PM authority questions regarding best practices in behaviors and other project and organizational issues that you are facing today?
Leadership, accountability, and professional maturity issues are common on projects - too common. This highly interactive seminar addresses specific aspects of these issues head-on. Through a Q&A venue, attendees pose short problem scenarios from either a seminar-provided list or their personal list. Neal Whitten then provides best-practice solutions to handling these situations effectively.
The problem scenarios can encompass a wide range of issues including accountability, dependencies and commitments; leadership styles, attributes and behaviors; sharing power; interpersonal communications and relationships; resolving conflict; mentoring; ethics and integrity; promoting change in your organization; project culture; quality; roles and responsibilities; project managers; business analysts; clients; management; project sponsors; performance of stakeholders; authority; escalations; domain of responsibility; and much more.
Attendees will gain insights and concrete guidance on how to demonstrate professionally mature behavior that will enable them to perform at their best, benefiting their projects, organizations, and careers. The seminar experience is intensive, revealing, and focused - aimed at providing participants lessons that can be applied on the job immediately and that will have long-term impact. This seminar will also help project managers, other leaders and team members promote and actively contribute to an effective business culture.
Neal Whitten is a seasoned practitioner and instructor who can get to the heart of personal and professional issues while treating all attendees with respect and sincerity.
Learning Objectives
- Examine your current professional behaviors.
- Discuss and resolve common behavioral issues.
- Learn professional-maturity best practices.
- Become a more effective leader and coach.
- Be coached/mentored by a leading PM industry authority.
What seminar participants are saying...
I was so impressed with Neal’s ability to role play interpersonal issues in the manner that he did. In my many years as a conference-going PM, I’ve never seen anyone so daring or effective in a group setting with such difficult subject matter. (Program Manager, Health Care)
Awesome seminar! I wish that all my co-workers would have attended. My organization and company need to hear this information to raise their level of professional maturity. (Project Manager, Energy)
Neal is a refreshing cross between Dr. Phil and Bill O’Reilly! (Business Analyst, Manufacturer)
Neal’s experience in the real world is very impressive and brings a perspective not easily found. (Team Leader, eBusiness Development)
I only wish I had a mentor like Neal. I believe I would be further in my career. (Manager, Aerospace)
As a professor who performs a lot of speaking and conducts a lot of seminars, I attended to hear the master of presenters. I wasn’t disappointed! Neal makes it look easy. It isn’t! (University Professor, Business)
Highly unique workshop. I especially liked the open forum, relatively informal approach, Neal’s great sense of humor and his relaxed teaching style. I don’t know a speaker who could have pulled it off as well as Neal. (Project Manager, IT)
Neal Whitten, PMP
Neal Whitten, PMP, is a popular speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and best-selling PM author in the areas of leadership, project management and employee development. He has written over 80 articles for professional magazines and is the author of six books.
With over 35 years of front-line leadership and project management experience, Mr. Whitten has developed and instructed dozens of workshops and presented to many thousands of people from across hundreds of companies, institutions and public organizations; 23 years were with IBM. He is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is a contributing editor - now over ten years - of PMI’s PM Network magazine.