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Abstract

For project managers, age or generational diversity may amplify communication challenges, increase barriers on the path to consensus, and require nuanced approaches to effectively engaging employees. For example, you may have found yourself thinking "how can I improve my impact on team members and achieve the desired outcomes in the face of differing values, experience sets, and communication styles?" While it may seem like an insurmountable goal to cultivate an efficient and effective environment for employees across generations, practicing the right form of mindfulness can provide unprecedented clarity into the obstacles and solutions.

Please note: Although this session builds on the information in the May 10th workshop, it is not necessary to have attended that event to learn about mindful influence and walk away with practical understanding and actions

Abstract:

Many organizations have developed a functional blindness to their defects.  They are not suffering because they cannot resolve their problems, but because they cannot see their problem.

In this session attendees will

• Learn what organizations can do to effectively correct or navigate functional blindness
• Learn how to apply the principles of people, plant, and profit to support a corporate culture of mutual accountability, respect and responsibility

Abstract:

Project managers spend 90% of their time communicating1. And, as Project Management 2.0 takes hold, we will be less project managers and more project leaders.2 How do we make that transition? What if leadership does not feel like a top strength for us? What if our communication is missing the mark in terms of tone, content, level of detail, and possibly timing? Research by ALLE LLC shows that project managers are lower on average in the strengths of Social Intelligence and Perspective. Leadership is a strength that tends to rank somewhere in the middle. But being lower in a strength does not mean we cannot engage it. And we have a toolbox of other strengths to leverage instead.

In this session attendees will learn about the statistics on project manager strengths – and weaknesses – the science of character strengths and how it boosts social intelligence, and leadership, and practical ways to engage your strengths within teams and with stakeholders to improve communication and be an effective leader