Neal has two self-paced distance-learning courses available—both described below. Completion of these courses earns you category 3 PDUs. These courses can be taken whenever you choose to do so and wherever you are —and at an affordable cost. The courses are based on popular topics that Neal encounters during his numerous engagements with hundreds of companies, institutions and public organizations resulting in face time with many thousands of people. These courses were designed to help you become a more effective leader and project member/employee as well as help you enrich your career.
Neal Whitten’s Twenty Best Practices for Projects
10 PDUs (Leadership – 10)
Course Overview Excerpts
Neal Whitten’s Twenty Best Practices for Projects is about helping you achieve extraordinary results in your professional life. Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead to exceptional performance. Mini case studies of common, but high-impact, real-life situations are presented—scenarios that many of us have experienced but may have been unsure of the most effective behavior to employ in dealing with them. These case studies represent situations that are among the most common with which Neal is asked to help. They apply to project leaders as well as all other employees of an enterprise. This course can help you become a more valuable leader or team member for your project, team or organization by revealing best-practice behaviors to adopt in your day-to-day performance.
Some topics discussed in this course have been excerpted from the best-selling PM book, Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success—Over 700 Q&As!, published by Management Concepts.
Sample Topics
The case studies cover a broad range of topics that include: Asking for Help, Curbing Your Ego, Dealing with Conflict, Effectively Managing Your Workday, Making Your Leaders Look Good, Moving Past Your Mistakes, Being Bold, Eliminating Complaining, Taking Charge of Your Career, Focusing on Your Personal Strengths, Working Overtime, Choosing Integrity, Sharing Power, Promoting Change in Your Organization, Understanding Awards, Telecommuting from Home, Surveying Client Satisfaction, Overcoming Process Paralysis, Avoiding Being Micromanaged and Making It Personal.
Who Will Benefit from This Course
This course is targeted to all project stakeholders (anyone associated with a project) as well as all employees in an organization and company. This especially includes project managers and is written as much for seasoned veterans as it is for rookies. However, the course also targets anyone who aspires to become a consistently effective leader, project member or employee—and therefore more valuable to their project, organization and company.
Learn More about This Course
The course is offered exclusively through Prodevia Learning. To learn more or enroll, simply click below and you will be linked to the course on the Prodevia Learning web site.
Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Guide to Leading Successful Projects
35 PDUs (Technical – 11, Leadership – 20, Strategy – 4)
Course Overview Excerpts
Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Guide to Leading Successful Projects provides concrete guidelines for leading project efforts. This course is not about theories or history. Rather, it is about giving project managers the answers they want and need. It is a how-to, real-world, no-nonsense, no-fluff or beating-around-the-bush practical guide to leading consistently successful projects.
This course is based on the best-selling PM book, Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects. Most of the book has been replicated in the course notebook. Moreover, for your convenience, the course includes a copy of the book for use as a handy reference after the course. If you are fortunate to have already read the book before taking the course, then you are “ahead of the class.” That is, the time you have already invested will pay dividends to you by allowing you to move through the course more quickly. Review questions and dozens of case studies and their solutions have also been included in the course.
This course offers you insights from a veteran project management practitioner, mentor, author, speaker, and instructor. Moreover, it collects the experiences and wisdom of thousands of people from across hundreds of companies and projects. The lessons learned are reduced to a simple format for ease in learning and applying them to your projects. The lessons will give you a decisive competitive edge in leading projects and working with stakeholders.
Sample Topics
The course covers a broad range of topics that include: Leadership Styles; Being Too Soft; Managing Priorities; Fostering Interpersonal Communications; Boldness; Escalations; Integrity; Accountability; Professional Behavior and Recognizing Professional Immaturity; Dealing with Criticism; the Alternative to Making Long-Term Project Commitments; Running an Effective Meeting; the Need to Fail; Dealing with Difficult People; Duties of the Effective Project Manager/Resource Manager/Project Sponsor; Giving Customers What They Need—Not What They Want; How Much Contingency Buffer Is Enough; Three Critical Actions that Are Overlooked on Most Projects; and many more specific leadership tips for promoting project success.
Who Will Benefit from This Course
This course is geared primarily toward project managers, and is written as much for seasoned veterans as for those new to project management. However, the course also targets project leaders, program managers, project sponsors, product managers, resource managers, functional managers, senior managers and executives, quality control personnel and anyone and everyone else who aspires to become a consistently effective project manager or leader. In fact, the course has a wealth of information—including life skills—for all members of a project or organization that will help them become more valuable employees.
Learn More about This Course
The course is offered exclusively through Prodevia Learning. To learn more or enroll, simply click below and you will be linked to the course on the Prodevia Learning web site.