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6th
International Project Management Day Seminar
Palace at Somerset
4 Nov 10
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For the 6th consecutive
year, the PMINJ celebrated the International Project Management Day at the
beautiful Somerset Palace Park, on November 4, 2010 with a roaring success
and was well attended by over 500 project management practitioners.
International Project Management (IPM) Day Seminar provides area project
managers an opportunity to network and collaborate, and together, reflect
and re-energize with a healthy exchange of ideas on the topic of the day.
Dynamic and knowledgeable speakers discussed issues related to International
Project Management.
The day was started with an opening statement by Chapter President John
Bufe followed by a welcome address to all guests and speakers by Deven Trivedi,
VP Symposium of the PMINJ.
The keynote speaker, Lothar Katz, PMP, set the tone for a very upbeat and
positive day. Lothar Katz spoke on the “Secrets of Successful International
Project Leaders”. In a high-energy, interactive session reveals powerful practices
and methods that can turn International Project Managers into effective global
leaders. The presentation explored leadership strategies, best practices,
and effective tools for global project leaders in areas such as high-impact
communication across cultural and other barriers, foreign stakeholder management,
project team leadership, and change management. Lothar’s key message was for
International Project Managers to “become comfortable with being uncomfortable”,
to successfully adapt to changes in the international market place.
Brandi Moore, The second speaker in the morning session, aptly followed
this with a specific focus on the emerging global powers with her talk on
“A Road Map for the International Project Manager: Cultural Strategies for
the BRIC Countries”. As a successful business owner with personal experience
working in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries, Brandi
shared some valuable insights on the need and techniques for Project Managers,
to adapt to and meet the demands of the increasingly global workplace caused
by off-shoring and outsourcing. Brandi explained why the BRIC matters to
the PM today, where we came for cheap labour, and stayed on for potential
customers, and each PM is a “Desk Diplomat” with globalization right at your
desk. With special emphasis on the BRIC, Brandi provided some very engaging
tips, using her own copyrighted process – AIM (Assess, Identify, Mediate)
- that introduces Project Managers to a framework for working across different
cultures.
The third speaker of the day, Kevin R. Wegryn, PMP, CPM, MA spoke about
“Managing without Walls”. Kevin shared his experiences and tips for managing
virtual teams, and emphasized that a project manager needs to understand
many aspects of project management to be effective, but three key elements
are e-mail, conference calls and phone calls. In addition to the pros and
cons of the current day tools such as IM, web conferencing, and social networks
for effective global teams, Kevin introduced an interesting twist with the
need to consider generation issues and communications preferences between
traditionalists, baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y or millennial
groups – since with the rise in the retirement age, this overlap of multiple
generations is very real In the current global economy.
The afternoon session was a dynamic workshop, presented by vibrant speaker,
Tom Kennedy, on “Great Presentation, or Death by PowerPoint…Your Choice”.
Tom’s message during this interactive workshop was that project management
is about leadership, and leadership is getting people to want to follow. Leadership
is a communication skill and virtually all business leaders agree that communication
skill is a key to success, and most say it is the key, to personal, career,
project and business success. Tom used video presentations and discussion
with the audience to convey his message that emphasized the need to prepare
for any communication in advance, know what you want to achieve, start with
the intended message and summary, focus on the audience, and audience alone,
and never rush through the meeting.
The session ended with closing remarks by Jerry Flach, Director of Symposium,
PMINJ. Jerry concluded the day thanking speakers, attendees and 50 volunteers
who helped made this IPM Day event a huge success.
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PDP Information:
Program Number: C020-04112010
Program Title:
"International Project Management Day Seminar"
PDUs: 8
Activity Sponsor:
NJ/PMI Chapter |
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| The proceedings for the 2010
IPM Day Seminar are available for downloading.
The files available to
download:
- HTM tool to view files
- All speaker files
Directions:
- Create a temporary folder
on your hard drive (eg. IPM-2010).
- Extract all the files from
the zip files into the temporary folder.
- The htm file will not
work when launched from the zip file.
- The files require a password
for extraction
- Double click on the htm
file (or open it with your internet browser).
Some clip-art, pictures, and
backgrounds have been removed from the files to enhance downloading and printing.
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All speaker files plus HTML tool
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Opening Keynote:
Lothar Katz, PMP
Secrets of
Successful International Project Leaders
Session 1:
Brandi Moore
A Road Map
for the International Project Manager:
Cultural Strategies
for the BRIC Countries
Session 2:
Kevin R. Wegryn, PMP, CPM, MA
Managing Without
Walls
Workshop:
Tom Kennedy
PM Workshop
Great Presentation
or Death by PowerPoint?
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