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Chapter Dinner: “Mini-MBA” Psychology for Project and Program Managers
Event : 
Chapter Dinner
Date: 
January 16, 2017 - 12:00am
Speaker(s): 
Carolien Moors
PDU: 
1.00
PMI Talent Triangle: 
Leadership
Event ID: 
C018170102
Program Description: 

 

Are you ever surprised by someone’s responses? Have you ever felt you had too little control in a conversation? Do you ever wish you’d understand someone’s motivations better? It’s this human side of project management that makes it interesting and complicated. Effective project management relies on technical abilities, organizational skills and soft skills. The latter help you deal with the numerous human complexities of your job and is the focus of this session. As a project manager you have to be psychologically savvy and socially skilled to effectively balance the needs and demands of different stakeholders, to navigate conflicting styles and team tensions, and to deal with accountability and scope concerns to name just a few. During this dinner session you will gain relevant insights and practical tips from cognitive and gestalt psychology, system thinking, Adlerian and positive psychology, and from renowned research studies pertaining to human behavior in the workplace. We will discuss the impact of human motivations, interpersonal allergies, thinking patterns, fears, and tendencies on the perception of people and situations and how they are subsequently handled. You will learn about thought-provoking questions to ask yourself that will increase your self-awareness. We will discuss the benefits of changing your narrative, of correcting your assumptions and thinking errors, of the power and pitfalls of focus and much more. This session will help you understand and influence yourself, others, and situations better to increase your effectiveness as a project or program manager.

Special Instructions: 

Agenda

5:00 Career Networking Group
5:30 Practitioner Communities 
6:00 New Member Orientation
6:30 Dinner
7:15 Webstream broadcast begins 
7:20 PMI-MN Chapter Business / Intros
7:30 Presentations
8:20 Q & A

 

Reservations by 1/4/17: 
PMI members $27, non-members $37
Partners: PMI members $25, non-members $35

Reservations from 1/5/2017-1/16/2017:
PMI-MN members $32, non-members $42 
Partners: PMI members $30, non-members $40 

Reservations for Speaker Only:
PMI-MN members $15, non-members $25
Partners: Members $14, non-members $23
Speaker Only Walk-ins: $25 

LIVE Webstream - Register by 1/16/2017:
PMI-MN members $20, non-members $30
Partner discount does not apply

Speaker(s) Bios: 

 Carolien Moors is an executive and team coach, webinar host, and keynote speaker from the Netherlands. She has 26 years of experience in Europe and the U.S. in a wide variety of industries and has presented for PMI on different occasions. Examples of topics are change management, emotional intelligence, leadership influence, accountability, communication, and stress and conflict management. Carolien engagingly applies her broad experience and her three Masters Degrees in psychology and education to the world of business. She is known for her practical, direct approach using insights from system thinking, cognitive and gestalt psychology, provocative coaching, and leadership research. She quickly gets to the core of what’s blocking people from performing at their best and provides practical insights and tips to strengthen people’s effectiveness.

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