Challenge The Boss or Stand Down? (2 PDUs)

A rising-star executive calculates his response to A hypercritical superior.

Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service kiosk company D7 Displays, has been promoted to senior marketing specialist by Shannon McDonald, his division VP. Shannon had warned Tom that she was taking a chance with him and that he'd have to learn fast and work well with his new boss, Frank Davis, who wouldn't have chosen Tom for the position. On the job, Tom finds himself at odds with Frank and challenges him openly at a well-attended meeting. Frank begins to formally document deficiencies in Tom's performance, and McDonald falls in line with Frank. With his back against the wall, Tom must carefully consider his next move.

Review present dilemmas faced by leaders in real world and look at solutions offered from experts.

Presenter:

Jeffery Foo is an entrepreneurial professional with more than 20 years of management, programs/projects and training experience. He is a PMP®, PRINCE2® Practitioner, MSP® Practitioner, ITIL Expert and ISO 20000 Certified Consultant. Some of his recent projects include engagement with senior officials from East Africian countries on aspects of project governance and finance management and with leading global OEM provider of digital storage technology and largest independent supplier of disk drive capital equipment in the area of project management and IT service management. Prior to founding JTD Consultancy, he was with Intel Technology Asia and managed multi-million dollar/multi-year projects and programs around the Asia Pacific region. He holds Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computing with Management and had trained thousands of professionals in PMP® and ITIL among others.

Learning from Projects: Conducting a Post-Mortem Analysis (2 PDUs)

Date: 15 February 2012, Wednesday

Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm, Registration and Buffet Dinner (Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Halal) starts from 6:30pm

Location: SMU - Lee Kong Chian School of Business , Seminar Room 1.2

SPMI Members: SGD 25.00

This event is strictly for PMI Singapore Chapter (SPMI) Members Only.

The creation of temporary enterprises for project-based work has become an increasingly salient feature of the new economy. These organizations specialize in execution of certain type of projects while leveraging their unique competencies, industry best practices and learning from their past projects. The end of a project offers firms a window of opportunity to learn from the many things that went right and wrong over a project’s duration. While each project journey is unique in its own way, there are often many scenarios where past experience of dealing similar situations comes very handy to handle them more effectively and efficiently in future. 

Often learning from firm’s past projects acts as most important key differentiating factor while positioning their organization as preferred partner/vendor. The purpose of this session is to discuss and understand process of postmortem analysis which has been used very successfully by Microsoft and other software developers for learning from past projects. This Harvard Case Study based session will also provide you an opportunity to apply and share your post project analysis techniques which you are using in your organization to explore projects key learning.

Start Date: 19 October 2011

Start Time: 07:00 PM

End Date: 19 October 2011

End Time: 09:00 PM

Location: Ngee Ann Adelaide Education Centre

Members: SGD 25.00

Non-Members: SGD 1500.00

Early Bird Discount: SGD 0.00

Early Bird End Date:

Presenter: Matt Fourie

Investigation Process Questions that would change your life as a Project Manager – guaranteed!

Matt Fourie, CEO and Founder of KEPNERandFOURIE™, will present a process of Divergent and Convergent Thinking that will make all the difference of how you will view incidents, problems and solution from then on. It is all about gathering the right information from the right people when finding a solution or solving an incident. It all starts with the correct and most accurate Incident Statement. Have you ever struggled making a decision or finding a solution? Have you ever wished you knew where to start when investigating an incident?

During this session Matt will demonstrate why some people are struggling to get going with an effective investigation or solution finding exercise. He will demonstrate a fool-proof approach that will give you the right starting point every time, which would make your job as a Project Manager so much easier. He will also show how you would be able to use the same processes to help with collaboration and influencing others. Ultimately he is going to share the type of questions to ask to achieve all of the above effortlessly!

We Thank Ngee Ann Adelaide for sponsoring the event venue