Mastering Group Dynamics for Project, Program and Product Managers October 26, 2011

Program and project management tools and training offer many excellent "left brain" skills to project managers but are typically light on the "right brain" techniques and insights that can actually make or break a project's success. This seminar supplements traditional project and product management training by helping program, project and product managers understand the key dynamics that typically "go wrong" when working with teams - especially matrix teams that span interdepartmental and functional boundaries. Participants will be introduced to the 3 primary alignments and 5 key agreements that must be reached with core team members to garner strategic buy-in and learn how to manage them.

The PRIMES are universal principles of group dynamics that any leader can use to increase their personal impact and productivity on the job in managing teams and strategic initiatives. Documented by Chris McGoff, the PRIMES book is a field manual for managing any team through something as simple as a meeting or as major as a total strategic overhaul.

"The PRIMES is a user's guide for taking on challenging transformations...I have seen firsthand how the fundamental truths outlined in the PRIMES can make the impossible, possible. Read The PRIMES...to look at difficult and complicated challenges through a different lens." - Major General Craig Bambrough (U.S. Army, Retired)

Attendee Takeaways:
· How to establish POWER across functional and organizational boundaries using shared perspective, intent and action with critical team members.
· How to design CHANGE principles into a project framework in order to increase buy in.
· Typical challenges in group dynamics and strategies to address them.
· Decision-making principles to help optimize group resources and drive progress.

Who should attend:
Program, project and product managers

Your speaker:
Dana Theus,Principal, Magus Consulting

Dana learned the lessons of “right brain project management” the hard way, developing a software development project management process from the ground up to launch the first video-on-demand service for Verizon in the 1990’s, as well as program managing the full product suite developed by CareerBuilder as it migrated and expanded it’s client-server application. . Since then, she’s managed technology-based business launches in the commercial and nonprofit realms and advised government and private entities on program development communications and launch strategies. Dana is acutely aware of the challenges program and project managers have in establishing the trust and agreement they need across distributed teams to pull off big projects, and as a leadership consultant she provides tools to make that job easier.
Dana is a Certified Facilitator in The PRIMES methodologies, profoundly accessible and powerful techniques for working with groups in solving problems and managing change and transformation initiatives in any size organization. She is the founder of the InPower Leadership Coaching Program, working with individuals one-on-one to master their innate talents and abilities to lead from a position of personal power.
Since founding Magus Consulting in 2002, Dana has supported a wide variety of commercial, nonprofit and government clients in strategic initiatives to reposition themselves in fast moving markets, establish compelling visions and change the world. Dana also served as Adjunct Professor of Marketing at George Mason University’s School of Management Graduate Program for Executives, and presented a module of a MBA short course for the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. She received her BA in communications from the University of California, Los Angeles (1983) and an MA in communications from the University of Southern California (1985).

Contact her at [email protected] or 703-236-5000 or visit her blog: www.ReclaimingLeadership.com

Schedule:
8:00am-4:00pm
working lunch

Cost:
Early registration fee $475 (expires October 12, 2011) regular fee $495
Seminar fee includes a complimentary copy of The PRIMES by Chris McGoff.
Receive an additional $10 off with promotional code Y1026VV

Official Website: http://www.ezgsa.com/seminars/icalrepeat.detail/2011/10/26/59/60/mastering-group-dynamics-for-project-program-and-product-managers