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A powerful one-day seminar designed
just for leaders
When
most people think about project management, they think about core technical
skills such as Gantt charts, PERT charts, dependency sequencing, and resource
leveling.
But successful project
managers will tell you that effective project management is far more. It’s also the essential soft skills of
communicating consistently, building teams, managing time and dealing with
organizational politics, to name just a few.
And when you add in the possibility that you're often working with
borrowed resources (people, expertise, funding) that could get pulled with no
advance warning, the difficulties start to multiply. Add in the biggest complaint heard from most
project managers – “I get all the
responsibility but not the needed authority” – and you can see why project
management can be challenging.
Buckle
your seat belts!
In this fast-paced and
content-rich day, leadership expert Merge Gupta-Sunderji will cover all these
aspects of project management – the nuts-and-bolts skills combined with the
non-technical components, the details tied into the big picture. This program is designed specifically for
those who want to gain the benefit of best practices in project management in
the shortest time possible without spending months in formal project management
training.
Details
Tuesday, November 7
8:30am - 4:30pm
SFU BBY, Halpern Centre 126
Your leadership navigator
Merge
Gupta-Sunderji turns managers into leaders. A highly-respected leadership expert and columnist, Merge gives people
specific and practical tools to achieve leadership and communication
success. Over 68,000 managers in eight
countries have attended her fun, content-rich keynotes and facilitated
workshops.
A leader at one of Canada's
premier oil and gas companies for over fourteen years and a Board leader at a
Credit Union for three, she offers a unique blend of realism and humor that
consistently engages and entertains her audiences!
In addition to being a regular columnist for The Globe & Mail, she’s an
award-winning published author of over 100 articles in numerous magazines,
twenty-two audio CDs and two books. Her latest book is a handy reference guide
titled Generations Exposed: Unexpected
Insights Into the People You Work With.
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