A CLIENT SAYS THANK YOU…
A client changed our logo to say thanks for delivering.
Gotta love that!!
EFFECTIVE INFLUENCING WORKSHOP
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
CHANGE – WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT AND HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
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.
FROM THE 2002 VAULT – A RETROSPECTIVE SUBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE
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
2011 AGMS Conference – A Follow-Up
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.
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS FROM THE 6TH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PM CONFERENCE
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
2011 International Conference of Global Management Studies
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
Happy Birthday RNC!
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
Lesson Relearned
Hi,
I’ve been mulling something over. Why is it so hard for people to actually invest in getting a project right at the start (set up, resourcing, planning). Then… I had an epiphany. read more
A Privilege And An Honour
Hi,
I simply had the best weekend ever! Well maybe not ever – but very close.
On Saturday Ian and I went to the Manly Surf Carnival and it was stunning. The sky was the most perfect blue I’d ever seen, the water was clear, sparkled in the sun, and was beautifully warm. A highlight was going out in a rescue boat and look back at the thousands of people on the beach – it was a magnificent sight.
(Thank God for factor 30 or I’d have been fried!) The cheers and organisational announcements, so loud on the beach, were barely audible on the water. I was in the capable hands of an experienced IRB (inflatable rescue boat) driver and could easily have taken up residence on the water. If you want to see some pics check out my Facebook page. (How brave is that!)
Then on Sunday, we went to the Floodlight Benefit for the Queensland flood victims at the Slide Bar in Oxford St (great venue) – which one of our own (take a bow Victoria) project managed (though she humbly allocates credit to everyone else, she did a magnificent job). The atmosphere and the standard of performance was great! I’m not a great party animal so we didn’t stay late but it was terrific. (Very loud)
But I have to say, the very best bit was realising both events were ‘personned’ by volunteers. Australia has the highest rate of volunteerism in the world (don’t know who worked that out but it’s regularly stated so I am using it). All the lifesavers were volunteers and there seemed to be hundreds of them on duty. Some started at 4.30am and were still working when Ian and I left at 3.30pm. That’s dedication.
Then at the benefit; everyone – the performers, the stage people, the bar staff, the organisers (everyone working on anything including photographers and cinematographers) – donated their time! As the MC pointed out, this is their regular job and it was like going to work for a day and not being paid for it!
At that moment I realised I’d spent my weekend in the company of people helping make Australia what it is, and what a fabulous reminder of our spirit as Australia Day approaches. I don’t often get sentimental but this weekend I was emotional with pride, and humbled by the commitment and generosity displayed by people from all walks of life.
Have a great week,
Diane
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