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Description of Topic/Presentation:

Dealing with a team of people is very hard. Knowing how to get the best from them is even harder. There are plenty of books on the hard skills of running a better meeting and making a better project plan. But there don't seem to be many books or presentations on how to work with people on a project. Who has the responsibility to do this is the Project Manager in the business world? There is a unique skill set for someone to be able to lead a team of 50, 100, or even 1,000 people. How are you going to do this?

What is it like to lead a team of 55 people, and how do you become an outstanding leader? Being a project manager, how do you live up to the stress and emotion that leading a team of people will bring you?

You have got to be the person who cares about the team. You are the person that needs to facilitate your project to success. It's bigger than anything you will do alone. You need a team of people to support you. It will not be easy. You must bring every fiber of your human existence to the table and lay it out. We are human and make mistakes, but factoring that in will make your project successful.

This presentation shall provide knowledge on how to increase your people skills and learn how to motivate and get the best from your people teams.

Learning Objectives:

• What are the skills to know and objectives for getting the best efforts out of people
• How to solve conflicts and the Impossible Things
• Having a Kind Side and a Heart with people

Speaker Bio(s)

David Shostak, PMP, MBA, ATP 

David Shostak is a world-class senior program manager with versatile and dynamic leadership skills, team building, and interpersonal and team motivation skills. He has led every aspect of high technology programs, engineering, marketing management, business development, and system engineering programs. He has over 40 years of experience in many technical diversified fields. A developer of program plans, market strategy, analysis, marketing roadmap development, and documentation for product plans. He has presented to senior business executives, government officials, and three-star generals. Mr. Shostak has focused on worldwide product launches, including interaction with European, Mideast, and Asian counterparts.

Mr. Shostak is one of the fathers of GPS for vehicle navigation. He led a team of people, drove handheld consumer products to market, and made Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things List. Mr. Shostak also led the team for the first one-meter dish antenna for Hughes Aircraft, which later became the Dish TV antenna.

He is a highly accomplished professional and an authority on public speaking. Mr. Shostak wrote a book called "Project Management in the Real World…Explaining all the nonsense about Project Management in Plain English." His book is about real-world Project Management, People Skills, and Leadership.

David holds a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He has been a Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2006 and an Accredited Training Partner (ATP) from PMI. He is an instructor for Caltech for Project Management, Advanced Communication, and System Engineering courses.

Location

Brio Italian Grille (Outdoor Patio), 774 Spectrum Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618

FREE PARKING IN STRUCTURE

Dinner / Meal

Delicious dinner included for in-person attendees based on ticket type.

*If you have food allergies or dietary restrictions, please let us know in advance 

Time

5:30 p.m. - Registration & Networking

6:00 p.m. - Dinner

6:30 p.m. - Speaker Presentation (1.5 PDUs, 90 minutes)

8:00 p.m. - Speaker Presentation Concluded, Additional Announcements/Prizes

8:30 p.m. - Event Adjourned

Cost

Registration Deadline : Must register before 12:00 p.m. on day of event.

PDUs: 1.5 - Power Skills