Professional Development Day - Leadership Skills for Project Managers

James T. Brown Ph.D., president of SEBA® Solutions Inc., has provided training and consulting services for dozens of companies nationally and internationally. He has sixteen years of NASA experience that includes "hands on" experience as a team member, project manager and serving in executive level organizational leadership roles. He provides consulting services in project management and has served as a subject matter expert for a leading project software vendor. James is the author of The Handbook of Program Management published by McGraw-Hill.   He has been published in PM Network, PE Magazine, Projects@Work, PMI Community Post and PM World Today. Dr. Brown has a patent for a project scheduling methodology, and has received numerous awards including "Engineer of the Year"   from the Cape Canaveral Technical Societies and is a recipient of the "NASA Public Service Medal"   for exceptional contributions to NASA's mission.

This course provides participants with leadership skills to successfully navigate all the challenges in a demanding project environment, including information on team building, communication, human behavior and leadership.  After completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

  • Identify the traits of successful leaders and emulate their characteristics

  • Build a strong team

  • Establish consensus

  • Recognize the importance of being an observer and learner of human behavior

  • Understand the importance of relationship building to achieving project success

  • Appreciate what motivates different individuals within project teams

  • Know the different types of power leaders can use

  • Conduct effective meetings

  • Engage team members to resolve issues

  • Establish processes to communicate effectively

  • Create escalation strategies to facilitate resolution of complex problems

  • Tactfully deal with stakeholders on sensitive issues

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Attendees will be entered to win a free Online PMP/CAPM Exam Preparation Boot Camp from PM Enterprises. What a great opportunity to help someone looking to become certified. 

Event Properties

Event Date 10-16-2017 8:00 am
Event End Date 10-16-2017 4:30 pm
Capacity Unlimited
Cut off date 10-12-2017 11:55 pm
Individual Price Registration extended to 10/13.
Location Bethel University

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