1. Project Leadership March 15 – 16, 2010
Arlington, VA
Discover the Necessary Leadership
Earn up to 14 PDUs Skills Needed for Project Success
Project Leadership
Effectively Lead Project Teams & Increase Work Productivity
You Will Learn How To:
Become a High-Performing Team Member
Improve leadership and teamwork skills by implementing effective project management techniques
Identify Tools and Techniques to Help Your Project Teams be Successful
Learn powerful communication techniques to increase team productivity and effectiveness
Perfect the Art of Decision Making
Understand the pros and cons of various decision-making methods and identify the various ways to
make a decision as a project manager
Effectively Manage Project Change
Understand how change impacts organizations both positively and negatively and learn to
implement change successfully
In Association with: Get the Most out of your Most Valuable
Projected Management Resource…Your People!
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2. Project Leadership Project Leadership
Who
Should
Day One
Monday March 15, 2010
Attend 8:30
Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
• Senior Project Managers 9:00
• Project Managers Discover the Power of Leadership in Projects
• Learn the characteristics and skills of the best project leaders and discover your
• Program Managers own potential
• Recognize the impact the leader has on the project
• PMO Managers
• Identify the difference between a leader and a manager
• Project Team Leaders
10:15
• Project Portfolio Directors Break & Refreshments
• Directors
10:15
• Quality Assurance Learn Strategic Team Building
Personnel • Understand the most effective team building approaches
• Chief Information Officers • Find out how to turn any project team into a high performing team
• Discover how to identify the team’s strengths and how to fill performance gaps
• Project Support Staff
12:00
Lunch Break
1:00
Investigate the Challenges of Leading “Virtual” Project Teams
• Understand the benefits and pitfalls of virtual project teams
• Utilize technology to improve virtual project team performance
• Adapt practices to improve virtual project team performance
“Great presentation of leadership strategies
and issues. The instructor is knowledgeable
and has good experience to draw on”
JOHN BURLESON, GENERAL DYNAMICS
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3. Project Leadership
Day One (continuted) Top 5
Reasons to
Attend
Monday March 15, 2010
2:15
Break & Refreshments
2:15 1. Gain critical leadership
skills needed to increase the
Understand How Exceptional Project Leaders Communicate odds for success
• Realize the importance of communication on project outcomes
• Adapt your communications to the situation 2. Utilize effective key
decision-making techniques
• Learn the key to faultless communication
to effectively make the
4:00
right choice
Day One Adjourns
3. Make use of various
planning strategies to
effectively develop and
manage collaborative
relationships vital to
project success
4. Apply negotiation skills to
achieve efficient cost and
schedule performance
5. Anticipate potential
problems and
consequences involved with
managing project change
“Exceptional style of communicating
subject matter to reach the beginner and
advanced managers”
AMIRAH MUHAMMAD, HEITECH SERVICES, INC.
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4. Project Leadership
Day Two
Tuesday March 16, 2010
8:30 1:00
Continental Breakfast
Appreciate the Role of Negotiation in
Leading Projects
9:00
• Understand what it takes to achieve successful negotiations
Learn to Motivate Project Teams • Recognize why negotiations are often hard to close
• Discover the intricacy of project team motivation
• Negotiate resources, budgets, schedules and scope
• Recognize the impact of your leadership style on
team motivation
• Evaluate the leader’s motivational tools 2:15
Break & Refreshments
10:00
Break & Refreshments 2:30
Manage Project Change and the Complexities
10:15 That Come With It
Discover Practical Approaches to Making • Discover what happens when individuals and
Good Decisions organizations cope with change
• Learn why structured decision-making processes work • Understand how projects change organizations
• Assess your decision-making style • Use leadership strategies to skillfully implement
project changes
• Recover from poor decisions
3:30
11:00
Plan to Lead Projects
Understand Conflict Management Strategies
• Transform insight into action
• Learn the five conflict management strategies
• Improve personal performance in key areas
• Examine when to use each strategy to best advantage
• Apply project management best practices to the
• Recognize the risks of each of the five strategies leadership challenge
12:00 4:00
Lunch Break Training Adjourns
“ This course provided excellent
information on project leadership”
SHERITA MANCE, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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5. Project Leadership
In-House Training Exhibiting
Sponsorship
&
One of the more popular vehicles for accessing the Institute’s educational offerings
is the delivery of on-site trainings and management facilitations. Bringing a training As a conference and training
or facilitation in-house gives you the opportunity to customize a program that provider, The Performance
addresses your exact challenges and provides a more personal learning experience, Institute is an expert in bringing
while virtually eliminating travel expenses. Whether you require training for your
together leaders to share
and discuss best practices
department of for an organization-wide initiative, the advanced learning methods
and innovations. We connect
employed by The Performance Institute (PI) will create an intimate training
decision-makers with respected
atmosphere that maximizes knowledge transfer to enhance the talent within
solution providers. The Institute
your organization.
offers five different pre-designed
sponsorship packages:
Customization
• Event Co-Sponsor
We realize that not all obstacles can be overcome by applying an “off-the-
shelf solution”. While many training providers will offer you some variation of • Session Sponsor
their standard training, PI’s subject matter experts will work with you and your
• Luncheon Sponsor
team to examine your programs and determine your exact areas of need. The
identification of real life examples will create a learning atmosphere that resonates • Exhibit Booth Sponsor
with participants and provides immediate return on your training investment.
Using interactive exercises that employ actual projects or scenarios from your For more information on
organization, instructors can address specific challenges and align the curriculum sponsorships or to get started,
of each session to your objectives. While the majority of on-site trainings are contact Meredith Mason at
focused on smaller groups, PI also has the ability to accommodate organization- Meredith.Mason@ASMIweb.com
wide training initiatives. Utilizing multiple instructors, PI has the capacity to deliver or call 202-739-9707.
courses to groups of up to 300 participants per day.
Areas of Expertise
On-site delivery of single courses, certification programs and entire packages of
specialized courses are available in the following areas:
• Strategic Planning • Performance-Based Contracting
• Performance Measurement • Performance Reporting
• Project Management • Program Evaluation
• Lean Six Sigma • Administrative Management
• Workforce Management • Leadership and Change
• Performance-Based Budgeting
For more information about in-house training options available to you,
please contact Blake Zach at 877-992-9521 or email him at
Blake.Zach@ASMIweb.com
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6. Project Leadership
Logistics
Venue & Hotel Earning PMI Credits:
The Performance Institute is a Registered Education Provider of The Project
Project Leadership will be hosted at The Performance Management Institute. All of our project management trainings, conferences
Institute’s Training Center in Arlington, VA, just one block east and webinars offer credits to help you take the PMP® Exam or stay accredited
of the Courthouse stop on the Orange Line of the D.C. Metro. with PMI.
A public parking garage is located inside of the building
for $10/day. Continental breakfast and refreshments will be
provided for delegates on each day.
PMP Exam Voucher $600
If you plan on taking the PMP Exam, you may purchase a
The Performance Institute Conference Center voucher from The Performance Institute for $600 ($450 for PMI
Members). The benefits of purchasing the voucher from The
1515 North Courthouse Rd., Suite 600
Institute are:
Arlington, VA 22201
703-894-0481 • No out-of-pocket expense to register for the exam
• All costs associated with PMP certification included on
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the one invoice
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing • Add all PMP certification expenses to the cost of
rate of $207.00 until February 15, 2010. Please call the this training
hotel directly and reference code “Project Leadership” when
making reservations to get the discounted rate. The hotel
is conveniently located three blocks from the Rosslyn Metro
Cancellations
station. Please ask the hotel about a complimentary shuttle For live events: ASMI will provide a full refund less $399 administration fee for
that is also available for your convenience. cancellations four weeks before the event. If cancellation occurs within two
weeks prior to conference start date, no refund will be issued. Registrants who
fail to attend and do not cancel prior to the event will be charged the entire
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott registration fee.
1533 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 703-528-2222 / 1-800-321-2211 For webinars: ASMI will provide a full refund less $50 administrative fee for
cancellations four weeks before the event. If cancellation occurs within two
http://www.CourtyardArlingtonRosslyn.com weeks prior to conference start date, no refund will be issued. Registrants who
fail to attend and do not cancel prior to the meeting will be charged the entire
registration fee.
Hotel and travel costs are not included in conference tuition.
All the cancellation requests need to be made online. Your confi rmation
email contains links to modify or cancel registrations. Please note that the
Tuition & Group Discounts cancellation is not fi nal until you receive a written confi rmation.
The tuition rates for attending Project Leadership are Payment must be secured prior to the conference. If payment is not received by
the conference start date, a method of payment must be presented at the time
as follows: of registration in order to guarantee your participation at the event.
Regular Rate Early Bird Rate Quality Assurance
$1099 $999 ASMI strives to provide you with the most productive and effective educational
experience possible. If after completing the course you feel there is some way
we can improve, please write your comments on the evaluation form provided
For more information on group discounts for Project upon your arrival. Should you feel dissatisfi ed with your learning experience
Leadership please contact David Yerks at 858-866-9381 or and wish to request a credit or refund, please submit it in writing no later than
10 business days after the end of the training to:
email him at David.Yerks@ASMIweb.com ASMI Corporate Headquarters: Quality Assurance
805 15th Street NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20005
PMI Registered Education Provider
Note: As speakers are confi rmed six months before the event, some speaker
PDUs: Earn up to 14 PDUs for this two changes or topic changes may occur in the program. ASMI is not responsible
day training for speaker changes, but will work to ensure a comparable speaker is located to
®
participate in the program.
The Performance Institute has been reviewed and approved as a provider of If for any reason ASMI decides to cancel this conference, ASMI accepts no
project management training by the Project Management Institute. As a PMI responsibility for covering airfare, hotel or other costs incurred by registrants,
Registered Education Provider (R.E.P), The Performance Institute has agreed including delegates, sponsors and guests.
to abide by PMI established quality assurance criteria. “PMI” and the PMI logo Please make checks payable to: The Performance Institute
are service and trademarks registered in the United States and other nations;
“PMP” is a certification mark registered in the United States and other nations; Discounts
“PMBOK” and “CAPM” are trademarks registered in the United States and other • All ‘Early Bird’ Discounts must require payment at time of registration and
nations by the Project Management Institute, Inc., which is not affiliated with The before the cut- off date in order to receive any discount.
Performance Institute. • Any discounts offered whether by ASMI (including team discounts) must
also require payment at the time of registration.
• All discount offers cannot be combined with any other offer.
• Discounts cannot be applied retroactively
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8. ASMI’s vision
In this challenging economic landscape, organizations must develop and execute
innovative strategies to survive and thrive. Performance and process improvement
methodologies give managers the tools they need to run leaner, more efficient businesses.
The mission of the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI) is to connect business
leaders with best-in-class practices and training to address management challenges
and improve results. ASMI has grown into one of the nation’s most innovative training
providers, combining market research and industry insight to deliver experiences and tools
to inspire leaders and grow businesses. Through virtual sessions, national summits, training
programs and consulting services, ASMI brings together leaders to share insights, ideas
and actions to transform organizations.
Areas of Focus:
• Performance Management: Using business analytics to drive strategy
• Process Improvement: Leaning processes for efficiency and quality improvement
• Financial Management: Budgeting and forecasting for better decision-making
• Project Management: Managing projects to deliver results on time, within scope and in budget
• Leadership Development: Building leadership skills to manage in times of change and conflict
Services:
Virtual Training Briefings 90-minute training sessions for the latest tools and
techniques to deliver results.
National Summits National events allowing business leaders to share best practices
and strategies for success.
Training Programs Methodology-based training modules in management
competencies, offered publicly or custom-designed for your organization
Consulting Services Field experts who can bring bold change to your workforce,
planning processes.
ASMI Corporate Headquarters
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