Accelerating Your Project Management Success

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Accelerating Your Project Management Success

Designed for Project Managers, participants will discover ways to align the fewest, most critical project management concepts, practices, and techniques. With a shared understanding of core best practices, PMs across the globe can better enroll others, more consistently produce high quality results, and quickly adapt to meet changing project demands. You will learn to better distinguish what is truly important from the “noise,” stay in sync on project progress, tackle unexpected twists; and move forward with planning, scheduling, managing, and tracking key initiatives with peace of mind and less stress.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand key project management concepts, theory, and best practices
  • Define major issues and pain points with managing projects for you and your organization
  • Practice prioritization of time and energy on the fewest activities that will generate results
  • Determine tactical methods for managing your most critical initiatives so all team members can easily identify risks and adapt to support activities
  • Apply tactics for thriving as a PM and a team when needs evolve

Realizing Telework Team Effectiveness

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Realizing Telework Team Effectiveness

Flexible, adaptive teamwork is critical to the success of virtual work. Participants will take a deep dive into what teaming is and how to master it in your remote work environment. You will walk away not only with elevated knowledge about teams (and how to lead them), but also with valuable resources, including a better understanding of your organization’s web conferencing tools (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams) you can use to elevate your team’s performance.

Learning Objectives

  • Define what is meant by “teaming” and its benefits
  • Define complementary roles, skills, and talents that make up the anatomy of an effective team
  • Leverage resources to create effective virtual teams in your organization
  • Determine how best to use your organization’s web conference tools to enhance collaboration

Ways of Wellbeing: Working the Edges — Wellbeing in Uncertain Times

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Ways of Wellbeing: Working the Edges — Wellbeing in Uncertain Times

Times of accelerated change, both personal and public, require us to shift, adapt, and adjust as individuals and as teams. Discover healthy strategies, approaches, and mindsets to help regain your work-life balance. You will understand how to recognize the environmental stressors that affect you and your team and practical tools and techniques to better address them.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn healthy practices to improve mental and physical wellbeing
  • Describe how to shift your thinking, behaviors, habits, and physical environment
  • Determine which practices improve how to balance work and home lives in a max telework posture

Ways of Wellbeing: The Why of Wellness

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Ways of Wellbeing: The Why of Wellness

Are you looking to make improvements to your existing wellness routine and don’t know where to start? This presentation explores a non-traditional definition of what “wellness” is, why it matters, and provides tips and tools to improve your overall wellness and wellbeing. This high energy, fast paced, and interactive presentation will give you insights into how you can focus on and incorporate daily small moves to create big impact results that transform your health and energy levels. (30 min presentation or 90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define wellness
  • Identify specific practices (short and long-term) that improve overall wellness
  • Make commitments to your personal strategy for wellness

Ways of Wellbeing: Team Resilience and Wellbeing

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Ways of Wellbeing: Team Resilience and Wellbeing

As leaders, it is important to your team’s wellness to recognize how stress manifests itself. Participants will learn tactics and strategies to build a strong foundation for your team and better understand how to keep connected. You will review developing a team charter which will help to define your team’s goals, core values, deliverables, and name the roles, skills, and capabilities that will help your team succeed. Participants will review communication styles, social contracting, and discuss ideas for connecting and celebrating with your team. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define the foundations of a strong team and importance of social contracting
  • Apply templates and best practices to support team cohesion, good health, and connectedness

Understanding Your Mission, Gauging Your Motivation

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Understanding Your Mission, Gauging Your Motivation

Learn to distill the root of your essence by evaluating your daily routine, examining your priorities, identifying your core values, and ultimately determining what your personal mission is. Participants will determine how both your personal and professional lives can help you find more fulfillment in daily living. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Comprehend core principles related to mission and motivation including routine, priorities, and values
  • Identify individual essence statements that drive personal mission and motivation

Understanding Social Capital in a Matrixed Organization

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Understanding Social Capital in a Matrixed Organization

Discover concepts, practices, and tools necessary for distributed teams operating in a matrixed organizational structure. Participants will learn about the intent and advantages of a matrixed organization and uncover both the visible and invisible tools that are within your control to improve your experience. You will discuss ways to understand social capital and the roles, quality, and accountability and performance involved in matrixed organizations.

Learning Objectives

  • Broaden communication styles to create the ability to adapt to and enroll peers, employees, and clients
  • Identify 2-3 tactical moves to untangle challenges created by social challenges and to name and amplify when things are working well

Understanding the Fundamentals: An Introduction to Visual Design

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Understanding the Fundamentals: An Introduction to Visual Design

Design pertains to nearly everything and is all around us! Words and images — the building blocks of design — are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital and printed worlds. As design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture. An introduction to the design world, participants will learn about these foundations so that you can grow your own eye for design and apply what you learn in your work, building your design capacity and improving your understanding of language used in visual design.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize basic design fundamentals
  • Apply tips and tricks in your visual design work

Staying Grounded

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Staying Grounded

Grounding is a strategy for connecting with the present moment and focusing your mind on a safe place in order to not be overly reactive or overwhelmed by stressors around you. In a challenging VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment filled with distractions, it is difficult to stay grounded and maintain our mission. Participants will learn the definition, inspiration, benefits, and principles of staying grounded. A key to staying grounded is maintaining awareness of your choices. We will experiment with different strategies and techniques for doing so. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define what grounding is and its benefits
  • Identify insights into how your values and choices affect your grounding
  • Apply practices and techniques for grounding at work

Sources of Power

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Leadership

Sources of Power

Power is often thought of as a four-letter word. Learn how to use your influence to increase your power. Identify your “default” sources of power and understand how to flex other “power” muscles to build trust and accomplish important goals and enact meaningful change. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the seven different types of power
  • Distinguish your preferred types of power
  • Determine which types of power to leverage to achieve your desired goals