Bring the “Neal Whitten Professional Development Day” event to your organization or company. This event—conducted exclusively by Neal Whitten—offers you the ability to pick and choose the professional development topics to be presented. Earn PDUs. Review the questions below to learn more.
Note: This on-site event is also available in an all-day webinar format that can reach your employees wherever their work-spaces reside–plus it can save you additional expenses.
Who is Neal Whitten?
Neal Whitten is an industry authority on project management, leadership and professional development issues. Click here for a full biography.
Why the Neal Whitten Professional Development Day?
The event has many objectives for an organization; they include:
- Enjoying the convenience of choosing professional development topics of immediate and local interest and benefit
- Saving on expensive travel time and costs by bringing the event to your location at a substantial savings per participant
- Allowing many attendees to participate that otherwise would not have the opportunity if travel was involved
- Earning PDUs
- Being coached/mentored by a leading PM industry authority
How many days is the event?
You can choose between a 1-day or 2-day event.
What are the durations of the sessions that make up the event?
You can choose from among 75-minute track sessions, half-day seminars and full-day seminars. You have the ability to customize the event that has the most benefit to your target audience.
Who is the target audience?
The target audience is project managers, program managers, project leaders, managers and anyone and everyone who aspire to be more effective leaders. In addition, the event will benefit all members of a project or organization in helping them become more productive, accountable and valuable contributors.
What are the topics from which to choose for the 75-minute track sessions?
You can choose from over a dozen topics and the list keeps growing. Click here for a description of each topic.
- Are You Too Soft?
- Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
- Dealing with Difficult People: 15 Tips to Stay in Control
- 15 Actions to Build Your Self-Confidence
- Client Satisfaction Surveys: Gauging Project Success
- Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders
- Effective Time Management to Getting More Done Every Day
- Crash Presentation in Agile Scrum
- Essential Tips for Effective Negotiations Skills
- How to Lead Successful Change Management
- Effective Mentoring: Top Q&As for a Successful Experience
- Top 10 Mistakes in Conducting Lessons Learned
- Top Reasons Why Projects Fail and What You Can Do to Avoid Failure
- Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance
- What Makes a Team Member Valuable?
- No-Nonsense Advice for What’s On Your Mind
- How Is a Senior Project Manager Different from a Project Manager?
- Recognizing and Dealing with Professional Immaturity
- A Manager’s Role within a Project
- Duties of the Effective Project Sponsor
- Escalate Is Not a Dirty Word
What are the topics from which to choose for the half-day seminars?
Currently you can choose from five seminars. Click here for a description of each seminar.
- No-Nonsense Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
- Dealing with Difficult People: 25 Tips to Stay in Control
- Let’s Talk! What Would You Do?
- 25 Actions to Build Your Self-Confidence
- Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance
What are the topics from which to choose for the full-day seminars?
Currently you can choose from three popular sessions. Click here for a description of each session.
- No-Nonsense Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
- Building and Leading High Performance Dream Teams: Formula for Success
- Top Reasons Why Projects Fail and What You Can Do to Avoid Failure
Can you show me an example schedule of topics for a 1-day event?
In this example, the event day begins at 8:30 am and ends at 4:30 pm, with an hour for lunch. However, start, end, lunch times and the number of breaks are flexible to accommodate the organization’s desires. In this example, the event day is made up of five 75-minute track sessions.
Day 1
8:30 – 9:45 Are You Too Soft?
9:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:15 Client Satisfaction Surveys: Gauging Project Success
11:15 – 12:15 Lunch
12:15 – 1:30 Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders
1:30 – 1:45 Break
1:45 – 3:00 How Is a Senior Project Manager Different from a Project Manager?
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30 Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
How about an example of a 2-day event?
In this example, the first event day is made up of five 75-minute track sessions; the second event day is comprised of two half-day seminars.
Day 1
8:30 – 9:45 Are You Too Soft?
9:45 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 11:15 Client Satisfaction Surveys: Gauging Project Success
11:15 – 12:15 Lunch
12:15 – 1:30 Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders
1:30 – 1:45 Break
1:45 – 3:00 How Is a Senior Project Manager Different from a Project Manager?
3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30 What Makes a Team Member Valuable
Day 2
8:30 – 10:00 Dealing with Difficult People: 25 Tips to Stay in Control
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 12:00 Dealing with Difficult People: 25 Tips to Stay in Control (cont.)
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 No-Nonsense Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 – 4:30 No-Nonsense Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance (cont.)
Note that any mix is possible. For example, the first event day could be two half-day seminars and a full-day seminar on the second event day.
What is the organization responsible for?
The organization:
- Decides the length of the event
- Decides the menu of topics and seminars to be presented
- Acquires a room to accommodate the number of attendees
- Provides a projection system and screen
- Provides a sound system which includes a lavaliere mic (for more than 50 attendees)
- Provides the appropriate number of flip charts
- Provides morning and afternoon refreshments and lunch (as appropriate)
What is Neal responsible for?
- Laptop to connect to projection system
- Handout materials for each session
- Evaluation forms (if not provided by the organization)
- Travel arrangements (working with the organization, as appropriate)
What is the limit for the number of attendees?
There is no limit other than the cap set by room size or the desires of the organization. Typically between 20 and 200 attendees participate.
How many PDUs can be earned?
Neal is a Registered Education Provider® with PMI®. Each full day earns an attendee 7 PDUs.
How do I learn more, inquire about the costs or move forward with the Neal Whitten Professional Development Day?
You can contact Neal by email ([email protected]) or call him at 770-378-2980.
Registered Education Provider and PMI are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.