This session includes: -Project Management -Teamwork -Communication skills -Presentation skills -Leadership

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2. Biography
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Nourhan Alaa-Eldin Adel Hassan
Faculty of Computers & Information Science – Cairo University
Major in Decision Support & Operations Research
Pre-Master in DSOR – didn’t start the master thesis yet 
Works at P&G as BS Site MPD Packaging Leader
Previous Experiences:
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Online Marketer at Nile Radio Productions
Trainer at SCCi’14
Social Media Trainer at SCCi’13
Logistics Member at SCCi’12
Moderator at SCCi’11
Best Participant at SCCi’10
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3. Game
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4. Agenda
• Introduction
• Project Management
• Team work and Communication skills
• How to pick a LEADER!
• Your Supervisor
• What is your WOW?
• Presentation skills
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5. Introduction
If someone told
you that he can
teach you how to
make the best GP,
then know he is
lying 
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7. "Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. It is
our light, not our darkness that most
frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who
am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous? Actually, who are you not to
be?" Marianne Williamson
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8. So, What is a Graduation
Project from your
point of view? And what
is its importance?
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9. Project Management
• Projects are one of the principles
means by which we change the
world.
• Project Management has become
one of the most popular tools for
organizations, both public and
private, to improve internal
operations, respond rapidly to
external opportunities, achieve
technological
breakthroughs,
streamline
new
product
developments, and more robustly
manage the challenges arising
from their business environment.
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10. Project Management –
Cont.
• What is a project?
– A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning
and end in time, and therefore defined scope and
resources to create a UNIQUE product or service.
• What are the project characteristics?
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Specific Objective
Defined start and end dates
Have funding limits (if applicable)
Consume human and non-human resources
Multifunctional
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Project Management –
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Projects’ properties:
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Ad hoc endeavors with a clear life cycle.
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Building blocks in the design & execution of organizational strategies.
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Responsible for the newest and most improved products, services, and
organizational processes.
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Provide a philosophy & strategy for the management of change.
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Entails crossing functional & organizational boundaries.
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The principle outcomes are customer satisfaction.
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Apply planning, organizing, motivation, directing, and control.
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12. Project Management –
Cont.
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13. Project Management –
Cont.
• What is Project Life
Cycle?
– Refers to the stages
in a project’s
development.
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14. Project Management –
Cont.
• How to determine Project Success?
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15. Project Management –
Cont.
• Understanding Success Criteria:
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16. Project Planning
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17. Game
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18. So lets get it started
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19. Team Work and
Communications skills
• How to choose your team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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20. Team Work and
Communications skills –
Cont.
Teamwork skills include the
mix
of
interactive,
interpersonal, problem solving
and communication skills
needed by a group of people
working on a common task, in
complementary roles, towards
a common goal whose
outcomes are greater than
those possible by any one
person working independently.
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Team Work and
Communications skills –
Cont.
How to design teamwork tasks:
– Clearly defined learning outcomes which include
teamwork skill outcomes such as negotiation,
communication and interpersonal skills;
– Criteria against which outcomes will be assessed - either
by an assessor or in conjunction with the students;
– A variety of roles and responsibilities;
– Scope for creativity;
– A group ‘product’ that can be assessed collectively; and
– A requirement for high level cooperation.
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22. Team Work and
Communications skills –
Cont.
• Distinguish between tasks that require:
– Cooperation - each team member can produce a
part of the whole independently; and
– Collaboration - the end result or product
represents the work of the team as a whole.
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23. Team Work and
Communications skills –
Cont.
• NOTE:
– You can’t choose your team members in real life.
– Diversity in team membership is a positive.
– Team members must have mutual goals and
shared commitment.
– Everyone is accountable for achieving the task and
managing the process.
–There needs to be a workable balance
between the task and the process.
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24. •
Team Work and
Communications skills –
Cont.
What is Communication?
– Process by which a source sends a message to a receiver by
means of a channel to produce a response.
• 3 Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
– Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
– Give honest and sincere appreciation.
– Arouse in the other person an eager want.
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25. •
Team Work and
Communications skills –
6 ways to make peopleCont.
like you
– Become genuinely interested in other people.
– Smile.
– Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest
and most important sound in any language.
– Be a good listener and Encourage others to talk about
themselves.
– Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
– Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.
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26. Game
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27. How to pick a LEADER?
• A leader should understand his or her own needs and
characteristics.
• A leader should understand the needs and characteristics of each
participant of the group.
• This understanding helps in planning the program and in getting
things done.
• This understanding creates trust and builds confidence among
group participants.
• Knowing and using the resources of the team.
• Good planner.
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28. How to pick a LEADER?
• Has good Communication:
– To improve your skills in getting information:
• Pay attention and listen carefully.
• Make notes and sketches.
• Ask questions and repeat your understanding of what was
said.
– To improve your skills in giving information:
• Be sure others are listening before you speak.
• Speak slowly and clearly.
• Draw diagrams, if needed. Ask those receiving information
to take notes.
• Have the listeners repeat their understanding of what was
said. Encourage questions.
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29. To lead people, walk beside them … As for the
best leaders, the people do not notice their
existence. The next best, the people honor and
praise. The next, the people fear; and the next,
the people hate … When the best leader’s work
is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu
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30. Your Supervisor!
• His major is compatible to your topic.
• Supportive and willing to give you
enough time.
• Willing to learn and walk the road
with you.
• Give you constant feedback and
follow up on your actions.
• Make sure the whole team is
participating.
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31. hat is your WOW?
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32. Presentation Skills
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