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April 30, 2003 Virtual Seminar
April 30, 2003 Virtual Seminar
| 2003 Virtual Seminar Series | An Organic Approach to Project Management |  |
| Your Virtual Seminar Leader. Randy Englund, executive consultant, author, and speaker, is a well-known expert in the project management community, contributing frequently to PMI's PM Network magazine and seminars. He wrote "What is Not a Project?" for Information Outlook and conducts Project Management workshops at SLA Conferences. For many years he was a senior project manager at Hewlett-Packard's Project Management Initiative, a project office that led the continuous improvement of project management across the company, and in high tech new product development. He collaborated with cultural anthropologist Dr. Robert J. Graham to co-author Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: the Quest to Manage Project Management (Jossey-Bass, 1997). His latest book is Creating the Project Office: a Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change (Jossey-Bass, 2003). Randy uniquely blends metaphors, multimedia, examples, and insights to motivate others and attain desired results. His can "bring the concepts from way up there, to right down here, equip you with the tools, and empower you to act." Contact him with questions, either before or after the session, at englundr@pacbell.net. An Organic Approach to Project Management acknowledges that people work best in a natural environment that supports their innate talents, strengths, and desires to contribute. Many organizational environments thwart rather than support these powerful forces in their drive to complete projects on time, on budget, and according to specifications. Applying lessons from complexity science offers a different approach-one that seeks to tame the chaos rather than implement onerous controls. Results are similar to those of a successful gardener: combining the right conditions with the right ingredients creates a bountiful harvest. Through leadership, learning, means, and motivation, learn how to get the right people employing efficient processes in an effective environment. This session describes the path where the results you create through projects become great instead of average, and the outcome contributes to organizational goals instead of going on the shelf. Four Critical Learning Objectives
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