Project Management Speaking/Training

Multipliers PM Keynote

 

I have developed a Multipliers keynote address customized for the Porject Managment Community. To have a Multipliers PM Keynote at your next meeting contact me at: jhaverly@garnetriver.com





Project Management Sessions

I am pleased to announce that I have developed several new and fascinating Project Management sessions that have been well received by audiences:

·         Inside the Mind of a Project Team: Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness by Understanding How Teams Think

·         Project Origination: How Project Managers Can Prevent the Next Arch Deluxe

·         Project Review Boards: Licensed to Kill but Living in Mayberry

These sessions typically run for one hour but can be customized to meet your needs. If you are interested in these topics and would like to discuss my availability for delivering any of these sessions to your group or organization, I can be contacted at jhaverly@gmail.com.

Inside the Mind of a Project Team:

Improve You Leadership Effectiveness by Understanding How Teams Think

Session Overview – While typical sessions on developing successful project teams focus on team building and progress tracking, this session will take you on a journey inside the mind of a project team. Drawing from extensive leadership experience and recent research along with case studies from the fields of psychology and behavioral economics, this session explores truths and myths surrounding team behaviors such as:

• Group Brainstorming
• Creativity
• Group habits
• Team Motivation

The goal of the session is to provide tools that any leader can use to make their team more effective by understanding how to apply the following:

• The Candle Problem
• Intrinsic Incentives
• Meta-ideas

Help your organization achieve business results by improving team effectiveness!

Learning Objectives

• Recognize why leaders need to understand cognitive processes to help them better lead their teams.
• Understand specific psychological and behavioral factors that influence project team actions.
• Learn strategies to increase the effectiveness of a project team.

Project Origination:
How Project Managers Can Prevent the Next Arch Deluxe

Session Overview - Popular thinking tends to believe that the most critical phase in determining the success of a project is Project Planning. This session will challenge this belief and provide real life examples of costly product failures which will demonstrate how Project Managers can make their most critical contributions even before the project begins.

The best managed project in the world will not provide value to an organization that has selected the wrong project to undertake.

This session explains how we can improve the success of our projects during Project Origination by understanding:

• Recent product failures
• The Egg Theory
• How Wal-Mart drives prices lower
• How one organization improved the performance of students in Kenya

Help your organization focus on their consumers and avoid selecting the wrong projects!

Learning Objectives

• Recognize why Project Managers need to play a critical role during the selection of projects.
• Understand the critical components of a business case and how to develop them.
• Learn how you can help insure that your organization is selecting the right projects.

Project Review Boards:
Licensed to Kill but Living in Mayberry

Session Overview – Most of us have had the experience of participating on a project that should be cancelled. Unfortunately too many organizations waste a tremendous amount of resources by continuing to execute projects that will never fulfill their business objectives. The reasons for this waste include both procedural and psychological factors. This presentation compliments the Project Origination presentation and examines several of these reasons and provides methods that organizations can employ to avoid spending additional resources on projects that will fail to deliver the intended business results.

While the goal of the Project Origination presentation is to help ensure organizations don’t initiate projects that are not aligned with business needs, this presentation demonstrates why and how organizations should cancel in-flight projects that fail to fulfill business needs by understanding;

• Overvaluation Theory
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• The Winner’s Curse

Help your organization avoid the continued wasting of resources on projects that will fail to deliver the intended business results!

Learning Objectives

• Recognize why organizations need to use their power to kill projects.
• Understand the procedural and psychological factors that prevent organizations from using this power.
• Learn how organizations can overcome these factors to improve overall organizational efficiency.

Project Management Training

Over the past 12 years I have given Project Management related presentations and training to a variety of clients and external organizations including:

• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Government Technology Conference (GTC) East
• NYS Forum Project Management Community of Practice
• International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA)
• Upstate New York PMI PMP Prep Class

Topics that I have recently presented include:

• Risk Management
• Status Reporting
• Issue Management
• Effective Project Estimating
• Project Schedule Development
• New York State Project Management Guidebook
• PMP Exam Prep

If you are in need of a Project Management presentation or training in any of these or other PM related areas customized to meet you need I can be contacted at jhaverly@gmail.com.