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Tools & Tricks of Successful Project Managers
Tools & Tricks of Successful Project Managers
Sharp project management is a business necessity— the alternative is an expensive way to wreak havoc on relationships and profitability. Creating the environment for a profitable organization begins with excellence in your firm’s project management system. At the core of what firms do, strategically and intelligently executing projects from proposal to solution fuels growth, creates opportunities, and sustains a strong commitment to your team and your clients. Understand what conditions in your firm will help facilitate this excellence and growth—or hinder it.
What you will learn:
1) The critical role projects play in your firm
2) Essential criteria for a successful and profitable project
3) The technical, financial, marketing and managerial roles and responsibilities of a PM
4) Best practices in communication, client expectations, risk management, team formation and performance, and project monitoring
Presenter:
Christine Brack is an Associate based in ZweigWhite's Chicago office and works with architecture, engineering, development, and environmental consulting firms to achieve their goals. Her business planning engagements design strategic and tactical initiatives relative to leadership, marketing, organizational structure, and operational improvement. With projects at the core of their business, Christine also consults clients on project delivery-analyzing and optimizing current systems, and implementing changes and best practices via firm-wide education and training. Christine routinely speaks at local program seminars and is co-chair of the Small Firm Roundtable. She is also a contributing author to The Zweig Letter. Christine holds an MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Saint Mary's of Notre Dame and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in German Language from Purdue University.
Event Date: February 19, 2009
Time info:
8 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Program
Location:
Marriott Minneapolis West
Address:
9960 Wayzata Blvd
Minnetonka, 55345 MN
Member cost: $179.00
Nonmember cost: $300.00
