Bringing a New Product to Life

Description of this Event

Join us for a virtual happy hour with the San Diego Chapter of PMI.  During this social, you will have an opportunity to meet the CEO and Co-Founder of Kove Hard Yerba Mate, Alexander Montelbano, who will be presenting the process of bringing a new alcoholic beverage product to life through a project management lens.  Learn how Kove infuses the art of living into their yerba mate.  And earn 1 PDU all the while!

Presentation Title:

Facing Conflict with Flexibility

Presentation Goals: 

• Identify the best use for your conflict resolution style
• Identify when to use a style other than your own
• Understand the steps to take to switch from your style to a new style
• Develop and test your conflict resolution flexibility plan, resolving conflicts when working from home and working with C-levels and other current topics.

How to Be More Effective While Finding Greater Satisfaction

Online (A link will be provided 30 minutes before the webinar via email)

Description of this Webinar

Today corporations expend a great amount of effort in developing happy employees assuming that happy employees are productive and profitable employees. You see this on bookshelves across the country: The Happiness Advantage, The Zen of Chasing Happiness, and I Want to Run Wild. Yet we see today, even before the events of 2020, people finding less happiness in their work, a loss of mission, and a diminishing effectiveness.

Unfortunately, most of these efforts have failed to leverage the wisdom that has been prescribed for millennia. In this presentation, William Giovinazzo will provide a simple road map on how to be more effective while experiencing greater satisfaction in tasks and projects to which we apply ourselves. Looking at both the strategic and tactical levels we will be able to define greater clarity of purpose as well as the tools to fulfill those goals.

Presentation Title:

Get Comfortable with the Uncomfortable in Project Management

Presentation Topics: 

• This presentation focuses on uncomfortable scenarios PMs face throughout their career and how best to manage tough situations. The more a PM practices and learn how to manage uncomfortable situation, the better PM will be suited to deal with those scenarios.

Using Business Value to Measure Project Success

Online (A link will be provided 30 minutes before the webinar via email)

Description of this Webinar

Explore how to identify your project’s value and use benefits realization management tools to deliver better business-aligned outcomes, making your project a success. Learn how viewing your project as a value delivery system links to the anticipated PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition changes.

Presentation Title:

How to effectively enhance new product design, development, and introduction processes by adopting and implementing the APQP and PPAP techniques for Project Managers

Presentation Topics: 

• Understand how to comply/meet customer/contractual requirements
• Understand how to effectively use APQP and PPAP standard process techniques to mitigate the risks of new product design/development/introduction

Presentation Title:

Systems Thinking Approach to Change

Presentation Topics: 

• Engaging the right people, the right way, to effect change for rapid adoption

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Improving Your Emotional Intelligence as a Project Manager Using Your DISC Profile

Presentation Topics: 

• Review emotional intelligence basics and how they help us become effective leaders and project managers.
• Learn what is a DISC profile and associated behaviors (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness)
• Discuss results of DISC assessment and link to emotional intelligence basics to determine how we can better use those basics in our leadership journey as project managers to: facilitate better teamwork, teach productive conflict, increase self-knowledge about how you respond to conflict, what motivates you, what causes you stress, and how you solve problems; improve working relationships by recognizing the communication needs of team members; facilitate better teamwork and teach productive conflict, develop stronger sales skills by identifying and responding to customer styles; and manage more effectively by understanding the dispositions and priorities of employees and team members