PM Insight - Foster City Virtual Meeting: The 10 Best People Practices to Boost Your Success as a Project Leader
PM Insight-Foster City Virtual Meeting:
The 10 Best People Practices to Boost Your Success as a Project Leader
No doubt, when it comes to leading and motivating people in projects, it’s hard to know what works best since every team is different, every situation is different and there are no real standards or playbooks for effectively managing people. That’s because your success with people depends on hundreds of different human factors and circumstances – just too many moving parts (variability and unpredictability) to try to manage. As a result, we continue to operate our projects by focusing on deliverables, timelines and deadlines, and hoping that people will somehow get along and perform. “Hope and cope” is not an effective people practice for success. This presentation will reveal 10 “people practices” that matter the most and work the best for leading and motivating people in projects.
Takeaways:
- People's behaviors are what makes or breaks projects
- Know what people truly want
- Facilitative leadership wins
- You can apply these people practices immediately
Zachary Wong
Zachary Wong, Ph.D., is an accomplished professor, scientist, project manager, author, consultant, and senior manager in business and project management with over thirty-five years of experience. He is an Honored Instructor at the University of California at Berkeley Extension and an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Davis. He has held senior management positions in research and technology, strategic planning, business analysis, and health, environment, and safety and a veteran of over 200 projects. He is an active management consultant for Fortune 100 companies in leadership, people skills, organizational and personal effectiveness, human factors and developing high-performing teams.
Zachary Wong is author of three books in Project Management:
- Human Factors in Project Management: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Inspiring Teamwork and Motivation, published by Jossey-Bass (2007) S.F.
- Personal Effectiveness in Project Management: Tools, Tips and Strategies to Improve your Decision-Making, Motivation, Confidence, Risk-Taking, Achievement and Sustainability, published by PMI Publishing (2013), Newport Square, PA
- The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management: Solving the most common people problems for project leaders, published by Berrett-Koehler, Oakland, CA (2018)
Meeting Leader: Larry Staley
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $5.00
Non-Members: $5.00
Students & Veterans: Free (Please contact Meeting Leader for the discount code)
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last-minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
Event Properties
| Event Date | 09-25-2024 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 09-25-2024 8:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 09-24-2024 11:55 pm |
| Individual Price | 5.00 |
| No. of Business Acumen PDUs | 2.0 |
| Location | Virtual Event |