Learn Ten Essential Skills in Two Days! with Neal Whitten
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Personalize their training needs by choosing the bursts that best serve their team.
- Participate in multiple skill and Knowledge Area sessions within a single training.
- Describe the key lessons from each burst through its summary takeaways.
Description
Are you looking for a microlearning-type experience that addresses a wide variety of the most popular and hottest professional development topics on projects and in the workplace? Welcome! Learners can select their favorite 10 topics from a list of 20 topics. These 60–90 minute “bursts” (or sessions) are stand-alone opportunities to enhance your professional and personal development.
The topics include:
- Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
- Effective Time Management
- Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders
- Effective Negotiation Skills
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Top Reasons Why Projects Fail and What You Can Do to Avoid Failure
- Drive Innovation with Disruptive Thinking
- Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance
- What Makes a Team Member Valuable?
- Creating Client Satisfaction Surveys
- Are You Too Soft?
- Building Your Self-Confidence
- Seven Steps to Successful Conflict Management
- Effective Mentoring
- Top Mistakes in Conducting Lessons Learned
- Successful Change Management
- Self-Assessing and Improving Your Performance Maturity
- Introduction to Agile Scrum
- Escalate is Not a Dirty Word
- No-Nonsense Advice for What’s on Your Mind
The takeaway training notebook includes all 20 sessions
AGENDA
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- Welcome
- Objectives for Training
- Introduction of the 20 Bursts Available from Which the Students Choose 10
- Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
- Effective Time Management
- Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders
- Effective Negotiation Skills
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Top Reasons Why Projects Fail and What You Can Do to Avoid Failure
- Drive Innovation with Disruptive Thinking
- Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance
- What Makes a Team Member Valuable?
- Creating Client Satisfaction Surveys
- Are You Too Soft?
- Building Your Self-Confidence
- Seven Steps to Successful Conflict Management
- Effective Mentoring
- Top Mistakes in Conducting Lessons Learned
- Successful Change Management
- Self-Assessing and Improving Your Performance Maturity
- Introduction to Agile Scrum
- Escalate is Not a Dirty Word
- No-Nonsense Advice for What’s on Your Mind
- Training on Chosen Bursts One Through Five
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- Training on Chosen Bursts Six Through Ten
- Training Quiz
- Top Takeaways Identified by Attendees
- Training Wrap-Up
Excellent, engaging instructor with useful information, important life messages, and relevant stories to keep my interest.
June 2023 Attendee
PDU Allocation Table
| Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 1.5 | 9.5 | 3 | 14.00 |
| PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 1.5 | 9.5 | 3 | 14.00 |
| PMI-SP® | 0 | 9.5 | 3 | 12.50 |
| PMI-RMP® | 0 | 9.5 | 3 | 12.50 |
| PfMP® | 0 | 9.5 | 3 | 12.50 |
| PMI-PBA® | 0 | 9.5 | 3 | 12.50 |
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Instructor(s)
Neal Whitten PMP
Neal Whitten is a popular speaker, trainer, consultant, mentor, and best-selling author in the areas of leadership, project management, and employee development. He has written over 100 articles for professional magazines—over 80 for PM Network magazine—and is the author of seven books. With over 35 years of front-line project management experience, Neal has developed and instructed dozens of unique workshops, created many professional- and personal-development online courses, and presented to many thousands of people from across hundreds of companies, institutions, and public organizations.