Steering Project Success –What More is Possible?
One day Workshop for experienced Project Managers.
Program Objectives:
Program will be focusing on achieving tangible increase in the Project Manager's ability to deliver projects successfully through the best `mindset'. This ability directly impacts Profitability mining and Opportunity mining across Projects, and Accounts.
Program Benefits:
- Enhanced ability to steer through grey areas /uncertainties in Projects/Programs.
- Ability to develop the entrepreneurship mindset needed for steering projects to success.
- Insight into crafting win-win solutions.
- Ability to steer expectations with a "positive NO" and a "conditional Yes".
- Ability to arrive at Innovative co-creation strategies involving all project stakeholders.
Program Details:
- Duration: One Day Saturday, 17 March 2012
- City: Thiruvananthapuram
- Venue: 3/4 Star hotel in the city. Will be communicated lated
Eligibility:
Experienced Project Managers, Program Managers, Project Leaders, Consultants, Outsourcing Professionals , Relationship Managers, Business development Managers, Alliance Office heads with project experience in any of the above roles.
Nominations will be confirmed on a first -come first- serve basis. There would be a pre-program communication to all confirmed participants, 1 week before program start date.
This program brings the practical insights from decades of Project Management experience in a packaged form. It is the most cost effective Experiential Training for professionals from Industry seeking to gain 'experiential knowledge', with live project examples.
Books to Refer:
Steering Project Success - Simple Innovations in Execution
- Published by: McGraw Hill.
- Author: Madhavan S Rao
Fees:
Special price for PMI Kerala Chapter members, seeking to extend new practical experiential programs for the benefit of the members (in addition to the standard PMBOK based programs). It includes
- Training Kit
- Lunch, Tea / Coffee during the workshop
The workshop demands clear focus and commitment from the participants seeking to deliver more than normal Processes and Methodologies.
Training Kit:
- Scale down version of training slides used by faculty will be provided to the participants
- Certificate of participation by Chapter. PMI Credential holders can claim 7 PDUs by attending this event.
- Workshop Expectations, Deliverables etc
Note: Since there are limited seats, booking shall be closed as soon as payments are received by the chapter. Lastly the participants, whose payments are received and confirmed, would be receiving a sample questionnaire for the training, whose inputs will be studied by the trainer and will be useful while delivering the session.
Facilitator Profile:
Madhavan S Rao, PMP:
The Facilitator is a PMP certified Project Manager with over 2 decades of Industry experience in providing Leadership for Delivery, Business Performance Management, Project Management Competencies and Innovation Enablers businesses.
His IT services experience spans across Industries including Manufacturing, Automotive, Healthcare, Insurance, Education, Process, Knowledge, Innovation and Delivery Assurance.
He was responsible for establishing the 1st PMCE (Project Management Center of Excellence at a large IT Organization). He has been the Sr Project Manager for several multi-million$ IT Projects for Fortune 500 Customers and has led Programs/Accounts for State Farm Insurance, Caterpillar , Blue Cross Blue Shield, Volkswagen etc
He has led Strategic Corporate Initiatives including - Fixed Bid Projects Profitability, Innovation, Idea Junction, Best Practices etc. He has provided Mentorship and Guidance to several Project Managers/Program managers across Global Accounts, as part of Delivery Assurance.
Based on his 2 decades experience he has authored book on Project Management titled - Steering Project Success; published by McGraw Hill, 2007.
He is a regular Industry Contributor; over 5 years as Director /Advisory Board Member of PMI, Bangalore Chapter. He has been the Editor of a monthly newsletter of PMI Bangalore Chapter called – PM Essence newsletter (4 years).
He has received the Satyam Star Academy award for Professional Excellence in Feb 2008, as well as the EIA, USA awards (Silver and Bronze) for Ideas, Branding & Communication (at Nashville and Florida in 2007 and 2008).
He has contributed Papers related to new Project Management trends (based on practitioner's experience) that were part of Industry Conferences at Hong Kong, Sydney, Atlanta, Houston, Canberra, Hyderabad, Bangalore , Chennai etc . His most recent program at Bangalore had participation by Project Managers from over 50 Organizations and feedback was very positive and encouraging.
His unique snowballing workshops on ‘Steering Project Success’ and ‘Assurance based Project Management' has benefited several 1000's of Project Managers, who are now well placed in leading Organizations across geographies. 100 applied case studies are available in the book published by McGraw Hill. He has received invitations to present this subject at B schools (like Penn State B School, USA; Loyola School of Business etc...). He is looking for collaborators/Partners to be facilitators / co-facilitators for these workshops across Academia and Industry worldwide.
Madhavan provides Consulting and Training services across industries (in IT as well as non-IT sectors). His program evangelizing a new concept called ‘Project Assurance Management’ is being regarded as the much needed 'Innovations in Risk Management' and has large number of references across the Industry. |
