You are a hardworking project management professional, PMP^®.   You have your WBS, stakeholder analysis, risk response plan, communications plan, resource histogram, schedule with 5,000 tasks, and a critical path.   

And your sponsor, team leaders, and stakeholders couldn’t care less.    

You convince yourself, “it has to be my organization’s low project management maturity; it can’t be me.”   Maybe, maybe not.   

How do you determine if it is you or your client that’s blocking progress? How can you really achieve project management excellence? How do you measure it? If you can’t, are you at risk of becoming irrelevant? This presentation examines these questions as well as current methods for developing the kind of competency that really matters. It presents bold ideas for what practitioners of project management must focus on to raise the performance bar and to avoid the risk of becoming extinct!

We will explore three critical personal competencies that project managers must be keenly aware of to move beyond the PMP^® to true Project Management Professionalism. With your PMP^® certification as a solid foundation, we’ll explore how you can overcome predictable project leadership roadblocks through these personal competencies:

1.       Building Trusted Relationships – Trusted relationships are the “oil” that keeps your project machine humming. Learn the characteristics of true trust-based relationships and how to develop and maintain them with team members, customers, and sponsors

2.       Advising on Projects – Accountability without real authority is a project management challenge. Learn how to become an effective project advisor by mastering the consultative leadership process and understand why this skill is desperately needed

3.       Developing Courage – Change without the pain!  Understand the level of commitment needed and how to manage this change in your project management career

You’ll leave this talk with a road map to start fresh with the right balance of personal competencies.  You will leave with a renewed passion for your project management profession.  Attend this session to discover whether or not you have the courage to make the leap from the PMP^® to Project Management Professionalism!

As a result of this talk, you’ll be better able to…

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    Identify the basic components of building trust-based relationships on projects, the benefits of such relationships and the practical applications of building long-lasting trust-based relationships
   
   
2. Use trust-based relationships to become a project advisor, and see why customers and team members want the proper advice
   
3. Use practical applications to advise team members, customers and sponsors in order to achieve buy-in, commitment to act, and generate positive energy
   
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    Overcome obstacles, and develop the courage needed to manage change in your professions and measure personal competencies that really matter in your career