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Lisa DiTullio |
Topic: Expected Behaviors:
Road Rules, Not Road Rage
Abstract:
No project can succeed without a project
team. More likely than not, your project will also require a number
of participants from different areas within your organization. Regardless
of whom and how many you have on your team, you cannot succeed in meeting
deliverables and deadlines unless you act as a high-functioning team.
Focusing on simple techniques to enhance team behavior and group dynamics,
this seminar reveals easy-to-adopt practices to enhance team members’ awareness
and accountability resulting in improved decisions, efficiency, and business
results.
Bio:
As past director of the project management
office (PMO) at Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Lisa was a core
member of the turnaround team for an organization that went from being
placed in State-supervised receivership in 1999 to being the #1 Health
Plan in America on the U.S. News & World Report/ NCQA America’s Best
Health Plans four years in a row.
Today, Lisa’s a leading force in project
and business management. She is the principal of Lisa DiTullio &
Associates, a training and consulting practice dedicated to introducing
project management as a business competency, enabling organization to improve
decision-making, instill accountability and enhance communications.
She is the editor of ProjectBestPractices, a quarterly newsletter from
ProjectWorld, a regular blogger for the Silicon ValleyPM and ProjectConnections
sites, and a contributor to PM Network Magazine. She’s also the author
of Simple Solutions: How "Enterprise Project Management" Supported
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Journey from Near Collapse to #1.
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Dr. Carol Mase |
Topic: Situational Thinking
Abstract:
Successful PM requires both Gantt charts
and the coming together of a diverse project team. Without team collaboration
the creative tension that exists and drives opportunity, destroys productivity.
Situational Thinking is a way of understanding and balancing team dynamics
to achieve collaboration and utilize the full potential of all members.
Bio:
Dr. Mase is a results-oriented professional
with 25 years of business experience. Drawing on her education in medical
and social sciences, she has worked successfully as an entrepreneur, a
global marketing executive, and an organizational consultant and coach.
An internationally experienced leader, she brings the “new sciences” of
complexity, neuroscience, and systems to business using metaphor and dialogue
to explore and promote change that is meaningful in the unique cultural
context of each organization and producing results that are sustainable
over time. Her company, Cairn Consulting, approaches Organizations as OrganismsTM,
complex living-systems, rather than simple machines of commerce.
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Nancy Northrup, PMP |
Topic: Faster! Better!
Cheaper!
Abstract:
In today’s world, it is no longer possible
to have the time, the staff, or the budget needed. The successful Project
Manager needs to be a quick, creative problem solver, and fearless at engaging
support, using whatever tools are available. This case study will highlight
Nancy’s role as the Customer Master Data Governance Leader for a large
Fortune 500 company where she was responsible for establishing, leading
and implementing a global effort to establish roles, standards, toolsets,
metrics, and audit processes to ensure and maintain consistent and accurate
customer master data. This visibility into customer relationships and identification
resulted in a data driven customer management strategy. In this session,
Nancy will share the work done to leverage existing global resources with
no direct authority, utilize the power of Six Sigma Lean, and optimize
the project budget to create success across the enterprise. In this session
Project Managers will learn:
How to establish the project parameters
How to define success
How to be Faster! Better! Cheaper! by managing
with Lean tools and concepts to reduce wasted effort of knowledge workers,
increase productivity, and identify the Value Stream
Bio:
Nancy Northrup, owner and founder of ibLEAN,
LLC; is a seasoned information management professional specializing in
applying Six Sigma Lean principles to streamline and enable the business
process. A certified PMP, Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Expert, she has
provided process and data thought leadership at multiple Fortune 500 companies
for such diverse functions as Data Governance. Data Privacy, HR Transformation,
Project Management Office and Equity Trading Mechanization. Nancy’s CV
is on linkedin at http://www.linkedin.com/in/nancynorthrup including a
link to her blog, On the Master Data Road with Nancy Northrup, and a link
to her most recent publication in Information Magazine, Data Quality in
5 Steps.
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Tom Sheives PhD, PMP |
Topic: Project Teams unstuck!-
Multicultural and Virtual Team Management
Abstract:
The makeup of teams is constantly changing,
creating unique challenges for teams to perform at the championship level
that is demanded in today’s workplace and economy. Multicultural
and virtual teams are the norm! Is your project team stuck?
Are you performing consistently at championship levels? Are there
“disconnects” between team members? Are there team members that you just
don’t understand? Who are those weirdoes anyway? Why do they act
and react the way that they do?
Culture and behavior norms are being challenged
at an all time high in the workplace. Multi-national and cross functional
teams whether collocated or virtual are growing at significant rates and
challenging traditional styles and modes of behavior and communication.
Cross functional teams are demanding that barriers be removed, department
silos be blown up and results achieved.
All of these issues are also exaggerated
by the generational gaps that exist between teams. From the aging
of the baby boomers to the Gen X, and Gen Y moving into strong contributor
and leadership roles in companies, all these can lead to frustration and
diminished team performance.
This workshop will apply some proven team
models to better manage these teams and to get your own team unstuck!
This workshop will help you discover proven strategies guaranteed to not
only cope with these team challenges but to take positive steps to propel
your team toward championship performance. Bring your team and get unstuck!
Using business team and sports team analogies,
the entertaining and knowledgeable facilitator will address challenges
of teams that are multicultural and virtual with a few thoughts and ideas
on multigenerational challenges. The facilitator’s learning experiences
brought to the session will include the recent and ongoing international
project of the current $5.25 Billion Panama Canal Expansion Program and
other project experiences in Germany and Japan. Differing scenarios will
be described and analyzed with interactive, entertaining attendee participation.
Accomplishing team results through strong decision making and commitment
to agreed upon behaviors and goals will provide definite takeaways to get
your teams unstuck!
Specific Learning Objectives:
1) Identify the five barriers to getting
PROJECT TEAMS unstuck!
2) Identify key characteristics of multicultural
teams and virtual teams
3) Connect the 5 barriers to multicultural
and virtual teams
4) Discover how sports teams and business
teams are successfully breaking down these barriers
5) Evaluate easy methods to analyze the
degree to which a team is stuck or unstuck
6) Discover at least three key methods
and engage in activities that participants can take with them to help get
their multicultural and virtual teams get unstuck!
Outline of Workshop
1) Overview of the Framework towards Getting
PROJECT TEAMS unstuck!
2) What is stuck and unstuck? How to determine
the important Stuck Factor for a team
3) Examples of some stuck and unstuck
multicultural and virtual teams
4) Build Team Trust
5) Embrace Team Conflict
6) Gain Team Commitment
7) Establish Team Accountability
8) Focus on Team Results
9) Connect the Framework to Multicultural
Teams
10) Connect the Framework to Virtual Teams
11) Connecting unstuck teams to more OPPORTUNITY!
12) Summary and Workshop Wrap Up for Getting
Your PROJECT TEAM unstuck!
Bio:
Tom is an author, speaker, project consultant,
and coach with True Solutions, Inc. Tom’s mission is to get project
teams and management teams unstuck! Tom’s new book OPPORTUNITY unstuck!
describes 4 key principles of discovering new opportunity captured in the
recent training of over 175 executives with the Panama Canal Authority
as they engage in the new $5.25 Billion Canal Expansion Program.
Tom has helped companies such as Texas
Instruments, Lockheed Martin, and Microsoft. He leads companies to develop
a solid methodology in project management. Tom has written and delivered
training for PMP® certification, PM Fundamentals, Requirements Development,
Leadership and Teaming and has launched an exciting, new OPPORTUNITY unstuck!
workshop.
Tom is a graduate of Texas A&M, Baylor
University, University of New Mexico and Coach University. He is also trained
to deliver project team assessments, several 360o assessments, the Winslow
Personality Assessment, and the Personal Coaching Styles Inventory.
Updated: 07Nov09 |
