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Mastering People Management for Project Managers
(2-day, 16 PDUs)

Be the manager everybody wants! Learn the secrets to “make a difference” management! Managing projects can be challenging enough but what if you’re ready to be promoted to the next big project or position? You need to know more about managing people too. This program will help you master your people management skills and guide you to success!

Quickly learn techniques based on 25 years in management. In this course, you’ll learn how to:

    •Make sure you start a new management position the right way, using 3 easy steps!
    • Please your boss or client and encourage peak performance from your team
    • Successfully take on tough challenges with skill and confidence
    • Get your team motivated; engage skills across the group and build team buy-in
    • Tackle recurring team problems and replace them with best practices
    • Overcome back biting behavior and take your group from conflict to collaboration!
    • Plan and run productive team meetings where you consistently “meet and move on”
    • Communicate effectively with your staff; share information everyone wants to hear
    • Use the Top 20 Rules of Engagement for project managers

You’ll gain all the above and much more! Actual comments from previous seminar attendees include: “I now have ready-to-apply tips and tricks for good leadership.” “Lots of real world management examples ... that make the point … reinforce the concepts.” “I can use this material immediately in managing my project team.” “This covers everything I need to know to be a successful manager!”

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Course Description

Based on over two decades of real-world management experience, this course takes a fresh approach to basic management skills while providing time tested ways to confidently take on familiar management challenges and dilemmas that project manager’s face. You’ll learn three easy management steps that are part of a unique, crisp and straight forward system. This course will show you how to produce solid performance by being a project manager who:

    M otivates your team into action
    O rganizes with well placed structure and resources
    G uides with coaching and support for individuals and the whole team
    A chieves with methods that promote success and accomplishment
The three easy steps of "MOGA" management show project managers how to: Get started the right way with their latest project or management challenge, identify process issues that may be hindering success, and fine tune team dynamics to deliver tangible results and get the job done right! A true project management win-win!

Worksheets and business examples included in the program make the system easy to use. Also included are the Top 20 Rules of Engagement for project managers that provide tried and true techniques for skillfully managing any situation. You'll learn how and when to hold effective meetings and how to take nagging project management problems and turn them into noticeable results. This course will show you how to go beyond project management and find success, confidence, and potentially that next promotion, that comes from mastering people management!

Course Instructor:

Mary Elston

  • Innovative visionary and competitor with 15+ years experience managing multi million dollar business groups, driving Product Management and Marketing
  • Director of a $150 million business unit, managing pricing, marketing, sales strategy
  • 15 years experience managing multi-faceted Product Marketing team functions including: Project Management, Product Management/Development, Pricing, Branding, Ads, Direct Mail, Web, Collateral Creation, Industry Management, Forecasting, Sales Support, Sales Seminar design and delivery, Business Case Analysis, Contract Negotiations, Pricing
  • 10 years management experience in technology and telecommunications, management of cross-functional solution teams and strategic marketing resulting in multi-million dollar sales
  • Produced storage technology product launch, marketing for up to $850M storage services
  • Opportunity Director for Big Five Consulting firm
  • Orchestrated multi-functional marketing group efforts for $270M telecom business segment, focusing on voice and data solutions, e-commerce for the financial services industry
  • Technically savvy, understanding of application development in storage technologies, data, voice, internet,Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification, managed product development of LAN packaged bundled solution
  • Awarded U.S. Patent, created Automatic Notification System, April 2000