Recent global events have turned the business environment upside down in a hurry. Conferences have been canceled, events have been delayed, and face‐to‐face meetings are non‐existent. People are working from home en masse and being urged to practice social distancing.

As humans, we have the need to be connected. It’s part of our DNA. But, how do we do that when our circumstances are keeping us isolated, alone, and lost?

Thankfully, technology can fill the void. Better yet, it can help your business grow, career advance or project move forward during these tough times…if you know how to use it.

Successful project management is 80% about the people and 20% about the process. Building relationships in a technology‐driven environment requires a new mindset, an innovative approach, and unique skills

Objectives:

What you’ll learn by attending this program :

• The 3 biggest obstacles to building online relationships and how to overcome them. 
• The 4 cornerstones of online relationships and how they affect relationship development. 
• The 5 secret (and proven) online networking strategies that radically impact relationships and results. 
• How to measure your progress and success in moving relationships towards a professional outcome. 
• How to reduce the stress of online networking to drive your business results.

Facilitator:

About Michael Hughes, North America’s Networking Guru: Michael specializes in helping professionals increase results by improving their ability to develop and leverage relationships. Following a 23‐year corporate career, he has spent the last twenty‐plus years coaching business, corporate and sales professionals to achieve better results.

His client list includes Project Management Institute, Association for Service Quality (ASQ), APICS Alcatel‐Lucent, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Staples, RBC Royal Bank, Fannie Mae, Ball State University and the University of Ottawa’s Telfer Executive MBA program.

For more information about him and his programs visit http://networkingforresults.com/

Description:

Project Management is much more than balancing the triple constraint. It deals with handling people and managing them towards the deliverables. People-related challenges are at times more complex than technology or business challenges. Even with the same set of processes, some projects are able to exceed expectations, and some fail. It is because, at the end of the day, those processes are executed by people.

This presentation provides an effective approach for PMs to manage people based on the three vectors - Skill/Talent, Opportunity & Passion/Interest. PM could follow a different approach for each team member depending on where they stand with respect to these three vectors. Characteristics of four possible scenarios and the action plan a PM could take for each of the scenarios will be presented. By applying appropriate management techniques this way, the PM can get the team energized and set it for success.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the importance of the three vectors (Skill/Talent, Opportunity & Passion/Interest) in managing people in projects.
2. Understand four possible scenarios for the team members with this model
3. Apply the model to managing their teams for a successful outcome
4. Build energized teams

Speaker Bio:

Srinivasan Radhakrishnan (Srini) is a thought leader & author with 25+ years of global IT and academic experience. He holds M.S. in Engineering and multiple professional certifications (PgMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMP®, CSCP®, CSM®, LSSYB, SAP® BW®, AWS-CCP & SAA). Srini has worked with Intel for 16 years and is currently a faculty with Arizona State University.

Srini has worked in India, USA & Singapore and has managed programs & information technology teams across India, USA, Costa Rica, Israel, Ireland & Malaysia. Has performed in a variety of roles - Program Manager, Project Manager, Business Operations Manager, Change Management Process Owner, Service Owner and People Manager.

Srini is also a judge for global IT/Business/Science & Engineering awards (Stevie, Globee, CODiE, Brandon Hall, ISEF). He has published books, articles, blogs and chaired/presented in seminars & workshops. Books by Srini include “B+ Be Positive” and “30 Day CIO - No More Layoffs”.

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasan-radhakrishnan-8142284/ 

Join us for our closure event of season 2, a collaborative event of 20-way collaboration between the PMI Chapters of; Mumbai, Czech Republic, Netherlands, South Africa, South Florida, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Phoenix, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Gujarat, Lima Peru, Southern Alberta, Sao Paulo, Kenya, Ghana, Greece, Puget Sound, and Poland, while we explore “Emotional Intelligence In  Project Management”!

Below are References on or related to Emotional Intelligence provided by session moderator Steve Fullmer. 

Greetings and Thank You all for an Incredible Experience during today’s collaborative effort!

As promised at the end of the presentation I have prepared an initial list of reading material addressing topics related to Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, and related cognitive processes.

The list is far from comprehensive, though serves as a starting point for anyone desiring a better understanding of the individual and social systems that both limit and enable human potential.

As a founding member and ambassador for the Institute for Neuro and Behavioral Project Management (initially supporting graduate studies in neuro-behavioral systems at Northwestern University),  I am delighted to share a link that each of you may use or share with today’s attendees.

www.behavioralpm.com/share/2jbLNOSJ0mbDcgaC 

The link will allow you to register for free at the new website established this month.  Through the website you may obtain free access to research, articles, videos, webinars, and podcasts being aggregated by the Institute for Neuro and Behavioral Project Management.  Results are being gathered across sciences and from around the world.  Topics address behavioral psychology and modern scientific results.  More importantly the results dispel centuries old psychology theories, and provide 21^st century application.  Some of the most amazing discoveries are being revealed weekly due to tools like fMRI that enable real-time studies of the neural systems behind human behavior.

(Note that I am merely a supporter and contributor based on my neuro-sociology research during the past decade, and my career path developing project management instruction.  I gain nothing from anyone’s participation other than additional knowledge.)

Please share the invitation and link, as well as the following reading list with anyone interested or stimulated by today’s discussion.

Emotional Intelligence and Behavioral Psychology

Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman (2003)

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee (2002)

Emotional Intelligence in Projects by Nicholas Clarke, PhD and Ranse Howell. 2009.  

[A research effort to identify existing research reports related to Emotional Intelligence in projects.  A gathering of academic and statistical analysis.] 

Institute for Neuro and Behavioral Project Management.    [Ambassador link: www.behavioralpm.com/share/2jbLNOSJ0mbDcgaC 

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann (2011)

The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin.  [Mental decision processes based on the function of the brain]

Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How it Shapes our Lives  by John D. Mayer (2014)

Tribes by Seth Godin - Tribal Leadership, Heresy and making a difference.

Also of potential interest due to being a broadly read best-seller:

Mistakes were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson    

[An (incorrect) treatise by behavioral scientists addressing bias as an intentional political tool.  Interesting in that it helps to reveal how even modern behavioral psychologists assess bias based on symptoms and outcomes rather than cause and mechanisms.]

Psychology and Physiology

The Tell-Tale Brain by V. S. Ramachandran    [Medical research regarding phantom limbs, pain perception, and other unique genetic or medical disorders once thought to be merely psychological delusions.]

Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee. [Further research in medical and physiological basis of perception.]

The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku [A theoretical physicist’s scientific presentation of the mechanism of the human mind]

The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku [A theoretical physicist’s exploration of humanity’s potential - and some of the barriers we must overcome as a species]

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, M.D. [An exploration of female biology, hormones, and their impact on the brain and emotions.  Great insight for women or anyone who cares about understanding the less observable impacts of female biology.]

Making a Good Brain Great by Daniel G. Amen, MD.   [Understanding and enhancing natural brain function]

Cognitive Frameworks

Literature about various ways the humans perceive

Change Intelligence by Barbara Trautlein

Generational Insights by Cam Marston - research about the true differences between current generations, the myths, and insights into other perceptions based on birth order, local, and external influences.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eaglemean

The Whole Business Brain: Unlocking the Power of Whole Brain Thinking in Organizations, Teams, and Individuals by Ned Herrmann and Ann Herrmann-Nehdi (1996)

[One of the first models considering a wholistic and preferential application of perception rather than predictive or classification based models (e.g. DISC, Myers-Briggs, Wonderlich, Kolbe, etc.]