Leadership, project management, management and employee development training are available. Listed below are seminars and workshops, all popular. These training events and other offerings can be tailored and customized to address your specific needs. The training is conducted by Neal or a qualified associate.
Note: Once the “hard” skills of project management are reasonably in play on your project or in your organization, it’s time to bring Neal in to teach the leadership and soft skills that are required for consistent success… and to be the best.
The Wonderful World of Power Skills: Achieving Exceptional Performance
These workshops (14-hour, 7-hour, 4-hour) are for leaders, those who aspire to be leaders, and all employees who desire to take their performance to a higher level. Do you have the Power Skills needed to achieve the level of success you desire? Power Skills are a top asset in today’s ever-changing workplace. These workshops identify the most important Power Skills to master on projects and in the workplace to perform at your best. Your personal limitations at work and across your life are directly impacted by your willingness and tenacity to deliberately embrace and execute on these Power Skills. Power Skills give you the real power to get your job done effectively and efficiently. It places the accountability for your actions squarely on you.
Learn Ten Essential Skills in Just Two Days!
Are you looking for a microlearning-type experience that addresses a wide variety of the most popular and hottest professional development topics on projects and in the workplace? Welcome! These 60–90 minute “bursts” (or sessions) are stand-alone opportunities to enhance your professional and personal development. The ten skill/knowledge areas are: Are You Too Soft?, Successful Change Management, Dealing with Difficult People, Top Reasons Why Projects Fail and What You Can Do to Avoid Failure, Effective Negotiation Skills, Top Mistakes in Conducting Lessons Learned, Drive Innovation with Disruptive Thinking, Creating Client Satisfaction Surveys for Projects, Building Your Self-Confidence, and Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance. Note: Ask about substituting one or more of these skill areas for other skill areas.
Building and Leading High Performance Dream Teams: Formula for Success
Can you imagine what the business outcome for your project would be like if you had a High Performance Dream Team? If you had a team whose members fully understood what is expected of them in nearly any situation and performed accordingly? A team that comfortably clicked among all its members and selflessly supported one another? A team that fully communicated, was professionally mature and accountable, and rallied for the good of the whole? Imagine no more! Welcome to this seminar! Using assessment instruments, assess the effectiveness of team members, the team and the project leader; learn what makes a team member and a project leader valuable; learn how to create team shared values and a team charter; and experience exercises that can help build your dream team. Bonus: A takeaway starter kit for post-class use with your team.
Let’s Talk! Leadership, Accountability and Professional Maturity
Leadership, accountability, and professional maturity issues are common on projects—too common. This highly interactive seminar addresses these issues head-on. Through a Q&A venue, attendees pose short problem scenarios from either a seminar-provided list or their personal list. The attendees then propose their best shot at how the scenario might best be handled. The instructor then evaluates the solutions and reveals the right course of action. The seminar takes learning to a personal level and is facilitated by a leading industry authority.
Top Reasons Why Projects Fail and How You Can Avoid Failure
Project failure is expensive to your organization and to your career. This course will reveal the most prevalent causes of project failure and will show you what you can do to avoid the reason for failure by going after the root causes. Not surprising, the project manager is almost always a major factor for success or failure of a project. This course is so important to project and program managers, it should be mandatory for all project and program managers—whether new or experienced. Although the course is predominantly focused on IT projects, the lessons are relevant to all industries and all projects. This course and its takeaway exhibits can be a game changer for your career.
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