PMO: The PMO’s role in Talent Risk Management

The goal of a project is always to build something new. It is unique – in time, variables, risks, and resources because the exact combination of those elements only happens once.  Good project management includes risk management, but we often forget about the risks related to our “human” resources.  Those risks can have a high impact on the project’s success.  To successfully ensure your project delivers and reaches the assigned goals, it is proactive to create a talent risk management plan to assess and plan for the risk and retention challenges of your “human” project resources. 

In this presentation, we will discuss how the PMO can promote best practices in talent risk management strategy, how to develop standardized processes for recruiting, vetting and managing “human” project resources, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of your resources vs. control and authority. We’ll consider how the PMO can support PMs’ management of indirect relationships, understanding different value propositions for different resources, and blending skills and expectations of resources to produce high quality results for your stakeholders.  You will benefit from lessons learned in over 120 projects, from years of experience as an HR practitioner and a project manager, and from a senior perspective as an executive.

Learning Objectives

• Retention
  • The importance of talent management in project management including retention and how it affects and organization and the ability to manage projects
  • Talent retention strategies
• Changing duties/new skills
  • With changing responsibilities – how do I manage my on-going development?
• Developing out of your role
  • How to learn and grow from your experiences
• Creating/Sustaining high performing teams
  • How to create and sustain high performing teams

 About the speaker:  Kristie Evans is Managing Principal/CEO of HR Logistics LLC and HRPMO Inc., the first firm to provide human capital risk management consulting focused on the risks associated with “Human” resources of business transformation and their impact on technical and process efficiency.  HR Logistics/HRPMO supports clients’ business initiatives through Ms. Evans’ signature methodology combining project management, business analytics, change management and risk management to workforce oriented projects to achieve successful execution.  Using a blended, holistic, collaborative approach - HR Logistics facilitates partnership and collaboration among Finance, IT, and HR to support strategic business projects and create best practices which are integrated across the organization.  Contact Kristie at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (919) 616-6524 (m) or (919) 250-9598 (o).