Keynotes

A Value-Driven Approach for the Future of Project Management

Dr. Harold Kerzner

Over the years, a new breed of project manager has appeared. The new project manager has significantly more business knowledge than their predecessors. The project manager must make both project and business-related decisions and manage multiple stakeholders, each of whom has a different definition of project success, different reporting requirements and a different perception of value at the end of the project. As a further complication, the true value of the project may not be known until well after the project is completed.

In addition, the new project managers will be assigned to nontraditional or more complex projects where the enterprise environmental factors will change continuously, the statement of work may be ill-defined initially, and the assigned resources may have personal values that are not aligned with the project’s expected value at completion. The triple constraint, as we know it, may have to be modified to include a value component for these nontraditional projects and the traditional earned value measurement system will be replaced with a value measurement methodology.

The Joy of Stress

Loretta LaRoche

Has life got you down? Are you overwhelmed or exhausted from job or family demands? Or are you going through an economic or other type of crisis? Come discover why humor and optimism can be the best medicine in the world!

You know what daily stress can do to your immune system and overall health. But how you react to stress can make all the difference to your well-being. In this dynamic workshop, Emmy-nominated television star, best-selling author and acclaimed presenter, Loretta LaRoche, will show you how positive humor can help you cope with stress and keep you flexible, creative and responsive to change. Loretta will teach you:

• How to see the positive side of stress for your body, mind and spirit
• How laughter can be a therapeutic tool for coping with illness or stress
• Ways to use humor to increase your fun quotient at work and at home

…and much more. Learn how to bring the healing power of humor and optimism into your life!

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A Fool With a Tool is Still a Fool! If You’re NOT Making a Difference – You’re Just Taking Up Space!

Lee Lambert

The key to remaining employed may depend upon your “value-add” contribution to the organization’s ability to continue achieving its business objectives. The value you add will be determined by the benefits your direct efforts contribute. The tools exist, learn to use them. Become an “impact” player. Break out of your PM survival paradigm and “cause” good things to happen—”make a difference”!

Learn to capitalize on the power of PM tools. Provide incredibly insightful decision support information. Earn the honor of becoming a “go to person”.

Become a project prognosticator “extraordinaire”. Learn how to provide the decision makers with truthful information about actual vs. the expectations established in the PMB.

Join Lee R. Lambert, PMI Fellow 2009, PMP for this insightful and entertaining presentation. Learn how he used project “truth” as the catalyst for his meteoric rise to success. His refreshing, cynical, and humorous delivery of this critical “survival” message may just change your life forever. Don’t miss it.

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The 10-80-10 Principle

Sunjay Nath

In any situation, whether it be on a personal or organizational level, there is always room to improve and increase leadership, performance, and success. The difficulty in doing so is identifying the correct place to concentrate our efforts. Often, we focus on problem behaviours that seem to be dragging us down.

Sunjay Nath’s 10-80-10 Principle breaks down situations into sets of behaviours; the top 10% behaviours (Top 10) and the bottom 10% behaviours (Bottom 10). Rather than focusing constructive energy trying to improve the Bottom 10 which are the most difficult to modify, the 10-80-10 Principle prescribes recognizing, developing and empowering the Top 10 while neutralizing the Bottom 10. This seemingly subtle difference in approach has a significant impact on performance.

By delivering the 10-80-10 Principle in an inspiring, humorous, and energetic presentation, Sunjay Nath keeps his audiences motivated and captivated to the message. Sunjay has unlocked the benefits of the 10-80-10 Principle for almost a million people around the world, including presenting at Project World in 2009.

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Turning it Around During Challenging Times

Mark Adams

These are challenging times for all of us! As a competitive former college basketball coach and as a competitive current stand alone businessman Mark Adams has experienced many challenges just like you and one by one has come out the other end with quantifiable better results than the circumstance he inherited.

So the obvious question is how has he overcome these negative odds in radically different markets? The learning from this session revolves around 5 basic fundamentals of individual and team leadership strategies for project managers.

Step 1: Re-Create the Vision
Step 2: Recruit the Best from Top to Bottom
Step 3: Be Clear About Your Expectations
Step 4: Play to Your Strengths
Step 5: Keep it Simple!

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