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

Organizing Your Team: Project Management and Leading Others

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Organizing Your Team: Project Management and Leading Others

Participants will review the operator to manager roadmap and explore how it enables rising leaders to create and sustain high-performing teams. Effective management extends beyond managing processes (making things better, faster, cheaper) to uniting, inspiring, and mobilizing others for change. Participants delve into how to scale your leadership capabilities by exploring situational leadership styles and the role interpersonal dynamics and motivation play in rallying a team towards a common goal.

Learning Objectives

  • Apply a tactical set of tools to scale participants’ personal impact
  • Integrate how your strengths coalesce into a distinct leadership style for uniting and mobilizing high-performing teams

Mastering Delegation: Making Others Part of the Solution

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Mastering Delegation: Making Others Part of the Solution

How can you spark others’ wisdom and infuse their unique value into the work while fostering a network of relationships, and producing a greater scale and quality of work? Delegation is more than getting stuff off your plate. Participants will explore ways to scale personal impact by shifting from a high-performing, single operator mindset to that of a skilled manager of high performing teams.

Learning Objectives

  • Develop a tactical toolkit for delegating and the mindset to do so powerfully
  • Identify and apply the principles and tactics to harness others’ talents in order to achieve shared goals

Managing High Performing Teams

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Managing High Performing Teams

Driving effective team performance is no secret, accessible only to leader-savants, cabinet members, and Fortune 100 CEOs. Participants will explore and apply the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance ModelTM to untangle the elements of team performance and identify tactics to apply across diverse operating environments. This powerful tool helps explain the predictable stages involved in both creating and sustaining teams. You will learn how to use the model to develop and sustain your team while also creating a common language for supporting cultures that are both high-performance and people-centric.

Learning Objectives

  • Explore elements of the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance ModelTM
  • Create tactics to explicitly address current opportunities and challenges your team is facing

Managing a Mobile Workforce

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Managing a Mobile Workforce

Organizations have embraced telework and workplace flexibility, and it is important to equip managers to lead a more mobile and distributed workforce. Participants will learn techniques and best practices for increased team collaboration and work-life integration to use while navigating a mobile environment.

Learning Objectives

  • Determine the shifts needed to manage a remote workforce
  • Use tips, tricks, and tools for virtual communications and working norms in a mobile environment
  • Identify success factors for making mobile work effective

Facilitating Challenging Conversations

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Facilitating Challenging Conversations

In every workplace, there is inevitably a need for difficult, awkward, and sometimes frightening conversations in the workplace. Thus, knowing how to build powerful relationships requires influence and mutual trust. Through individual reflection and various group activities, participants will examine the mindsets and approaches for managing such challenging situations. Understand when awkward “crosses the line” into behaviors that you should not tolerate and how to address it. This session draws on the research and work of Chris McGoff’s The PRIMES, Charlie Green and Andrea Howe’s Trusted Advisor Handbook, and Susan Scott’s Fierce Conversations to help provide frameworks and tools to design conversations.

Learning Objectives

  • Distinguish the behaviors and mindsets to use when challenging situations are required
  • Gain an awareness of how you can build the skills for addressing challenging conversations into your organization’s support for and commitment to your staff
  • Apply templates and tools, including: Guiding a Fierce Conversation™ (Susan Scott); “Name it and claim it” (Trusted Advisor)

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Enabling Change: An Introduction to Change Management

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Enabling Change: An Introduction to Change Management

Designed for all levels of change management knowledge, this foundational change management course underscores key concepts of change and transformation and how to apply them. From Bridges’ theoretical Transition Model to the application of Brenda Zimmerman’s principles for leading in a complex system, participants will explore change management concepts and ways to apply them in action. With an emphasis on self-awareness and self-management, you will learn how to take ownership of change at the individual level and how to approach change regardless of your official role within an organization. (60 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define key concepts of change and transformation
  • Identify your own relationship with managing and relating to change
  • Explain techniques for managing the constant change within your organization

Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations

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Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations

Discover how to use evaluations to help improve team member’s performance, providing them goals to help them envision and achieve success. Through a series of frameworks and tools, participants will explore ways to design effective evaluations that lead to actionable results. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the differences in assessments as a career mentor from evaluation as a clinician or scientist
  • Design and communicate strong narrative feedback in written form
  • Interpret evaluations and communicate insights from evaluations for actionable results

Creating Space for Others to Develop: How to Help a Struggling Mentee/Trainee

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Creating Space for Others to Develop: How to Help a Struggling Mentee/Trainee

Focused on a strengths-based approach to help all junior staff/mentees, participants learn about positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Through simple, effective tools, you will understand how you can build a relationship to enable the growth and development of all staff. Additionally, participants will discover clear, actionable frameworks that can be used with struggling staff to advance your performance. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define tools and frameworks to encourage development
  • Identify and leverage the appropriate tools to support a struggling mentee
  • Explain how to effectively develop individuals’ strengths

Managing Individuals, Leading Teams

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Managing Individuals, Leading Teams

Being an effective employee and an effective manager requires different skillsets that are not always transferable from position to position. The shift from managing yourself to managing others is a difficult one. Participants will learn the skills and tactics needed to be a successful manager, including managing people, building team cohesion, developing work plans, and managing financials.
 
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