11.08.2011
Conferences, Seminars
CHI and the BioPharma Strategy Series’ Ninth Annual Strategic Resource Management Conference will be held later this year in Philadelphia. The Sixth Annual Portfolio Management Conference is also included in the 3 day event. The conferences will feature presentations from industry thought leaders on the latest innovations in resource management, commercial strategies, R&D and portfolio management.
RNC is delighted to be a corporate sponsor, and is also pleased to announce that Diane will be speaking. If you’re interested, check out the link below for full details.
Diane is presenting on Day 1 (Nov 8th) - and if your resource strategies are causing you to wonder: “the question is how?”, you’ll be excited to know that she will be offering answers to this complex question, and indeed, you might soon be wondering: “the answer is…. Why didn’t I think of that before?”
Keep watching for news on the event plus Diane’s day by day perspectives on the speakers and presentations.
Click here for further conference details.
28.07.2011
Analysis
Hi,
Sometimes it’s necessary to think about where you, and those around you, sit in relation to being “with” the project. It helps to understand the complex landscape of people and personalities, but it’s not always that easy, so here’s a simple guide which breaks down those complexities into four basic quadrants of “Project People”:
Who’s Who In and Around Your Project Peoplescape
Talk soon, D
28.07.2011
Services
Hi,
People often ask about improving their resume.
I saw this come through and thought you might like it:
Resumes Australia’s July 2011 Newsletter
I’ve met Kylie but there is no affiliation with RNC.
Simply passing it on – quite clever that it cut through and got my attention really.
More soon, Diane.
Portfolios Programs Projects – simply making them happen
24.05.2011
Seminars
One of our own is adding a string to her bow and offering a seminar on effective influencing. The details are below … warning though, there is a danger with this course – it might change the way you build, maintain and leverage relationships in the workforce (and it might make things so easy for you, you start to think there is no challenge left).
Diane
7 Steps to Success in Effective Influencing
Be a Power Player by building effective relationships. Use the 7 SUCCESS STEPS to impact and influence new or existing relationships and generate powerful partnerships in the Business World or within your personal relationships.
Ruchi Motial-Suri has over 18 years multi-industry corporate experience including executive coaching, project management and leadership. Based on her varied experience, she has developed a pragmatic approach to effective influencing skills using the 7 SUCCESS STEPS. In this workshop, you will discover these skills and walk away with the knowledge to use them immediately.
Where: UTS, Aerial Function centre.
When: Saturday 2 July 2011, 9am to 5pm.
Register before 15 June for the fantastic introductory offer of $97.00
($225 after 15 June)
For further details email ruchi@successculture.com
01.04.2011
Analysis, Commentary, Culture, Synopsis
Hi,
Change. Yes, it’s time to discuss this frequently used term that can cause grown PMs to run for cover. I prepared a presentation for a client to use with their management team (and yes, I slipped a couple of slides in there about RNC) to help explain and support the need to do things differently. Their challenge is that they continue with group training, team building exercises, culture surveys, etc, and yet projects and business, as usual, struggle… and change is stymied.
The presentation clarified why the old approach doesn’t work and that you can’t cause change unless the individual feels okay about it. It was a resounding success and we are now all focussing on the key building block of the organisation – the individual.
View my CHANGE presentation here.
24.03.2011
Analysis, Commentary
Hi, I recently rediscovered this article which I wrote nearly a decade ago, in 2002. It seems like yesterday, but of course, life and times were very different. We were on the cusp of a number of major political, financial, technological and environmental shifts. What were the challenges facing PMs in 2002? And today? Has the PM environment moved with the times? Let me know your thoughts too…. read more
17.03.2011
Conferences, Synopsis
Hi,
I thought it would be a good idea to present some insight and overview on the conferences I attended last week.
I chose to attend the first – the International Conference of Global Studies -because it focused on global management – overall management not just related to projects. I was invited to speak, but I wanted to give you a bit of a brief on what I heard and learned.
read more
16.03.2011
Commentary, Conferences
Hi again,
I know I promised this yesterday but instead I spent the time debating with myself about what to say. You see, in recent times I haven’t been going to project management conferences, preferring instead to go to the conferences where the people who ‘use’ project managers hang out. (And just for clarity please note that my use of the terms project and program, manager and director are interchangeable for these purposes – the people other people look to, to get things done).
However, I agreed to speak at the PMI Pharmaceutical project management conference in the US last week and was hopeful that things had changed. That perhaps the conversation would be around delivery rather than process and outcomes rather than tracking, reporting and analysis? read more
02.03.2011
Commentary, Conferences, Synopsis
Hi,
On Monday 28th February I presented a paper at the 2011 International Conference of the Association of Global Management Studies, which has just concluded in Las Vegas. The conference provided opportunities for networking and collaboration amongst scholars from academia, industry and government, and encouraged papers on any aspect of management and business. read more
08.02.2011
Commentary
We are 12!! I can’t believe it is 12 years since I decided to start my own really nice company (RNC). I won’t bore you by repeating the conception story here but I will tell you a bit about what I saw then and what I see now. read more