Let’s Talk! No-Nonsense Leadership, Accountability and Professional Maturity
Overview
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; clients; management; business analysts; 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 dignity. This unique seminar can positively affect your performance, projects, and career. Come prepared to learn what you personally need to know!
Seminar materials include the book: Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Project Advice.
Length of Seminar
Typically one day.
Who Should Attend
This seminar is for all members of a project or organization. Attendees should include managers, project leaders and other members.
Learning Objectives
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Examine your current professional behaviors |
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Discuss and resolve common behavioral issues |
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Learn professional-maturity best practices |
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Become a more effective leader and coach |
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Get personal advice and mentoring on your particular issues and questions. |
Although a group size of 20-30 attendees is optimal for more in-depth discussions, there is no upper limit to the number of attendees. The seminar is designed to accommodate large audiences.
Notes
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This seminar is popular for both public organizations—such as PMI Chapters and Professional Development Days—and for private companies. |
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For public organizations, Neal provides a starter list of nearly 300 problem scenarios that the attendees can choose from—or create their own. |
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For private organizations, it can be most effective for attendees to submit their personal problem scenarios days before the seminar. These scenarios are then collected in one document and distributed to the attendees at the start of the seminar. Attendees can then choose the problem scenarios for discussion from the prepared list of scenarios or introduce new scenarios on the spot. It also can be most effective for other attendees to propose solutions to the scenarios. Neal will evaluate the proposals and offer his own best-practice solutions if different than those presented by the attendees. |
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For private organizations, the seminar can be administered as a Performance Expectation (PX) Workshop as described in Part Four of the book, Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success. |