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Seminars & Symposium
Breakthrough thinking
Creativity cannot be coerced but it certainly can be encouraged. This session will introduce leading theories of the creative process, and will present a practical 10-step program to help project…
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Seminars & Symposium
In your own backyard
There are many "sticks" driving virtual teaming and matrix organization structures, but this paper discusses some of the "carrots" or rewards. Two global companies, both industry leaders, found that…
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Seminars & Symposium
The reality of virtual management
The millennium, with all its technological advancements, has unveiled a new management approach - virtual management. After five years of building and managing a virtual organization with virtual…
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Seminars & Symposium
Project management challenges of web design teams
Project managers face many challenges in their field. None of those challenges quite compare to the challenge of managing a Web design team. Within the Web team there are creative individuals who…
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Seminars & Symposium
Creating at warp speed
This paper explores exciting lessons learned by an international virtual project team in developing and implementing a creative, rapid planning and response communications project. We experimented…
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Seminars & Symposium
Are we having fun yet?
Often, top management tells us to work hard, to make our goals, to reach those numbers, and to have fun. What exactly does this mean? The project manager needs to understand how his or her team…
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Seminars & Symposium
Leveraging models and techniques from other disciplines to energize the project team
Have you ever had to train your project team on a new concept or software program? Wouldn't it be great to review a quick list for ideas on how to help the team learn? If you answered yes to either…
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Seminars & Symposium
A team building approach to organizational change
A unique approach at achieving empowered project teams in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans district. The approach initiated team building with the executive team, which achieved…
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Seminars & Symposium
Matching people, projects, processes, and organizations
Effective project management requires sensitive matching of people, projects, processes and organizations. Such matching requires recognition and classification of the differences between these four…
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Seminars & Symposium
Solving people problems
When everything else is said and done, your biggest challenge as a project manager is dealing successfully with people. People problems can be messy, uncomfortable, and nasty, but there are methods…
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