How to Design a Personal and Business Pivot with Greg Githens
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Identify essential design elements: pivot points, leverage, concentration of effort, narrative.
- Stimulate insights by managing anchors and reframing.
- Explain why cultural strengths can serve as an effective pivot point.
Description
AGENDA
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- Introduction
- Story Anchors, Frames, Reframing
- Example of Story Anchors and Career Pivot
- A Key Question: Where Is This All Going?
- Anticipatory Assumptions
- Pivoting Your Career Narrative
- Rethinking Expertise and Conventional Résumé Formats
- Elements of Pivot Points and Pivoting
- Business Pivoting Examples
- Trend: Away From Efficiency and Toward Resilience
- Designing a Pivot: Narrative, Anticipation, Insight, Leverage (NAIL)
- Strengthen the Pivot Point
- Bouncing Forward
- Wrap-Up: Q&A
PDU Allocation Table
Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
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CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.00 |
PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.00 |
PMI-SP® | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.00 |
PMI-RMP® | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.00 |
PfMP® | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.00 |
PMI-PBA® | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.00 |
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Instructor(s)

Gregory D. Githens PMP
Greg Githens’ mission is to upskill individuals to make positive impact by delivering useful ideas and new perspectives. His engaging enthusiastic style has earned him the reputation as one of PMI’s most popular speakers.
Greg is the author of How to Think Strategically: Sharpen Your Mind. Develop Your Competency. Contribute to Success. This highly rated book explains that strategic thinking is an individual competency composed of 20 microskills. Because strategic thinking is rare and valuable, those who demonstrate it have more value to their organizations and are more promotable.
Greg has been a featured speaker at PMI congresses, PMI chapters, The Management Roundtable, and elsewhere. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University (USA) and a master’s degree from Miami University (USA).