W5-159 - The Flexible Thinker
Date: Friday, April 18 - 8:30am – 4:30pm
Description
You’ve put together your charter, you’ve got a detailed work breakdown structure, and you are ready to go. However, things never go as planned! Factors such as poor commitment, hidden agendas, lack of stakeholder or sponsor support are the things that can derail any project. While many project managers are proficient with the technical aspect of project management, it is the human objects that ultimately determine the success of a project and can cause unforeseen problems to arise quickly. This highly interactive workshop will give project managers the tools that they need to solve real problems in real time
Learning Objectives
Identify all of the obstacles that can derail a project
Gain an awareness of how to create options to limit unforeseen risk and deal with scope creep
Discover how to gain stakeholder and team acceptance so that projects can be successfully closed
Skill Level: Everyone
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Michael Rosenberg,
OYG Inc.
Michael Rosenberg is the author of The Flexible Thinker®: A Guide to Creative Wealth and The Flexible Thinker® Guide to Extreme Career Performance (co-written with Sandra Boyd). He is a guest lecturer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and Queen’s University in Canada. He has conducted many workshops that bridge the creative world with the business world in order to improve both personal and team performance for business. The Flexible Thinker® has been studied by the Ivey School of Business for its impact on a public sector organization and the results were published in Organizational Science. Michael has written articles for H.R. Reporter, the Business Times and other publications. Michael is a co-founder of Leadership Peel, a community-based leadership organization and the Applied Improvisation Network, an association of professionals and academics who apply the skills of improvisation to increase personal and professional performance.
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