More About Our Top Speaking Topics

A. Managing Risk Is Project Intelligence (2005 IPMA World Congress Topic!)
Traces highlights of early Project Risk Management use, discusses regulatory influences currently in play, notes current best practices and lessons learned, and conjectures where the discipline is headed, as the Enterprise learns new uses of Risk in Project Intelligence. Target Audience: Executives through Managers, Project Managers and key stakeholders.

B. Project Levers and Gauges
Better, Faster and Cheaper is an attractive theme, but results in poor project performance when Project Managers and their Managers don’t know the difference between the Project Levers and the Project Gauges. The result: instead of proactive action, they react to trailing indicators, while the effective Project Managers (and Executives too) enjoy the luxury of proactive management. Target Audience: Executives through Managers, Project Managers and key stakeholders.

C. Thinking Beyond the BOK
The PMBOK® Guide is a great starting point. And the most effective Project Managers soon move beyond that knowledge foundation, adding communication and other key skills and behavioral attributes, as they progress into Competence and pure project performance. This presentation provides a framework for that progression, using the USA’s National Competence Baseline. Target Audience: Experienced Project Managers and their Managers.
Note: PMBOK is a registered trademark of Project Management Institute.

D. Small Projects: Don’t Just Do It!
In your organization, the majority of most professionals’ efforts is probably spent in project work. The problem is, most of that project work consists of Small projects, that aren’t even considered to be project work, just “more stuff that needs to be done by the end of the week”. So, the majority of your Project portfolio is actually invisible, and is totally unmanaged. Target Audience: Business and Resource Managers, Project Managers and Knowledge Workers.

E. Project Competence And Your Weakest Link
Projects for your team, your department, or your Enterprise are only as successful as your “weakest link” delivers them. Using our 360’ PM Competence Model, we discuss the key stakeholders from whom you need stellar Project performances to succeed. Target Audience: Business and Resource Managers, Project Managers and Knowledge Workers.

In addition to these Top Topics, we offer additional topics in three categories

F. Project Context Topics
Crafting the Project-Oriented Enterprise
Who Needs PM? You Know the Answer!
Prioritizing Each Project’s Vital Signs
The PM Gap: Maturity Without Competence
Certifying Project Managers: Who Wins?
Building a Career Ladder for Project Managers
Four Ways to Double Project Performance

G. Behavioral and Interpersonal Topics
Why Are They Called “SoftSkills”, When They Are So Hard?
What Leadership Style Work Best For PM?
So You Think You Are A Communicator!
Five Style Differences You’d Better Know
What Really Motivates Your Team?
Who Owns Your Project?

H. PM Practice Topics
The Seven Deadly Methodology Errors
Success Diagonal: Set the Right Staffing and Time
Assuring Performance of the Key Project Roles
What Makes You Think You Know Risk?
Your Estimates Aren’t Wrong—It’s Your Actuals!
Precedence Analysis—Beyond Crashing the Model
Closure: Lessons Learned, or Merely Recorded?

We can also distill and craft many of the topics in our full curriculum into a one hour speaking topic. If you do not see a topic in which you are interested on the list above, review our catalog of workshops and ask us!