If you answered anything except “5. Problems between people” then you really need to take our course. Experienced PMs will tell you that people are their biggest asset and their biggest headache. Even R&D glitches only become problematic for PMs when key technical staff didn’t surface the problem early enough, or the team didn’t have a work-around plan for each R&D effort, or . . . well, you get the drift. Challenges occur on any project but PEOPLE, either through errors of commission or omission, then turn them into crises. Some easily-grasped techniques, selectively applied at the right times, can avoid these programmatic landmines. After this course you will be able to lead a complex project, recruit and retain world-class staff and keep them motivated and maintain your sanity as Project Manager. If you do it right you’ll get promoted at the end of the job.

Some problems on projects can be avoided by setting up self-correcting processes for managing creative solutions to problems, adapting your communication styles slightly to accommodate the way some partners think and changing your own thinking about generational influences to better match the real world. And we’ll help you do that.

This two-day course is designed for anyone who works on projects. Students will learn how to build a cancellation-resistant project, how to form and manage a world-class project team and how to lead the entire effort to a successful conclusion. Cross-discipline and inter-generational techniques are taught and key topics are reinforced with small-team exercises. Attendees are given the Meyers-Briggs© assessment and many people discover mismatches in their temperament and their current project assignment(s). And everyone learns how to be much more effective as team participants or leaders.