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No project can succeed without a project team. More likely than not, your project will require a number of participants from different areas within your organization. It's also highly likely you will need to involve parties from external agencies, whether they are consultants or vendors. Oh, and don't forget your Project Sponsor, a necessary, but often unused player on the team. Regardless of whom and how many you have on your team, you cannot succeed in meeting deliverables and deadlines unless you act as a high-functioning team. Focusing on simple, vanilla techniques, you can improve team dynamics to enhance team members' awareness and accountability resulting in improved decisions, efficiency and business results.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the value of teamwork and the link to business outcomes
- Recognize how the "right" set of behaviors can support productive teamwork
- Appreciate how simple investments in team dynamics hold big returns
- Learn how to introduce easy methods to improve team dynamics and reduce conflicts - while stuck in the middle, between project team members and Project Sponsor
About Lisa DiTullio
As past director of the project management office (PMO) at Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, she was a core member of the turnaround team for an organization that went from being placed in State-supervised receivership in 1999 to being the #1 Health Plan in America on the U.S. News & World Report / NCQA America's Best Health Plans three years in a row and the Highest Rated Plan in the Northeast for member satisfaction according to the JD Power and Associates 2007 National Health Insurance Plan Satisfaction Study.
Today, Lisa's a leading force in project and business management. She is the principal of Lisa DiTullio & Associates, dedicated to the set-up and management of enterprise project management office models. She is the editor of ProjectBestPractices, a quarterly newsletter from ProjectWorld, and a contributor to PM Network Magazine. She's also the author of Simple Solutions: How "Enterprise Project Management" Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Journey from Near Collapse to #1.
Please join us on at The Italian American Community Center off of Washington Avenue Extension, in Colonie (see directions).
Attitude adjustment will begin at 5:30pm with dinner at 6:00pm, followed by the program starting promptly at 7:00pm and adjourning by 8:00pm.
Dinner is $25.00 for PMI members, $35.00 for non-members, and $15 for students: includes salad, rolls, entrée, coffee, & dessert.
The deadline for online registration is 4:00 pm on (cancellations after 4:00 pm on will be charged the full meeting registration fee - $25 for members, $35 for non-members, and $15 for students). Please note that the registrations after the cancellation deadline of 4:00 pm on and Walk-ins on the day of the event will be charged an extra late fee of $10.