PMIGLC Dinner Meeting

Location: Management Education Center

Title: It's Not How You Do the Work, It's How You Do The Work Together

By: Sid Henkin, VP of Market Innovation for Prism Learning Solutions, and Sr. Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Project Management practice

Time:

Check-in ~ 6:00pm

Dinner ~ 6:30pm

Presentation ~ 7:30pm

	PDU Code C011-100807
	Presentation materials

PMIGLC Forum

Title: Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 at the November Dinner Meeting) ABCD Risk Management

By: Peter Hasek, Principle, Pharos Guild llc.

Forum Time: 5:30-6:30 - Before the Dinner Meeting

Fees: $20 (Member), $25 (Non-member)

PDUs: Earn 2.5 PDUs by attending the dinner meeting and the forum; forum only…1 PDU.

NOTE: Please note that registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis and that seating is limited to 35 people. There is no guarantee that if you register for the first session in October that you are guaranteed a seat in the second session in November.

PDU Code C011-100807F

Dinner Meeting Presentation Abstract

This presentation focuses on how to achieve the critical balance between the two realms of a high performing team, the technical/operational realm and the behavioral realm. Historically, teams focus on the technical competencies of its members and leave the behavioral alignment to chance. We often hear comments like, “give it time” or “the team is starting to gel”. We often trust team development to an evolutionary process that's problematic at best.

Addressing Half the Problem is Not Enough

For a majority of organizations trying to achieve exceptional team performance, the focus has been on each team member's technical competence. The assumption is simple: if you get the right technical skill sets on the team, results will follow. If this were the case we would have a lot more successful teams than we do. This assumption addresses only half the challenge. Technical competence is something you can get your arms around. It can be defined and in most cases, observed objectively.

The Other Half of the Problem: Just As You Suspected

Recent research has supported what most of us have also observed: it's how the team members interact that has most significant impact on team success. We have all observed teams that have very technically competent members, but fail to perform up to expectations. We understand the impact of behavioral compatibility, but how do we address it?

The traditional forms of team building training do not provide an effective way, a measurable way, to uncover the behavioral gaps in team performance, much less prescribe specific methods for bridging those gaps.

We have observed that many teams responsible for critical deliverables i.e. project teams and IT teams have a low tolerance for any activity that does not directly impact their ability to get work done. As one project leader put it ‘we don't have the time to hold hands and sing ‘Kum Ba Yah'

The Missing Piece of the Team Performance Puzzle

This presentation will focus on how team and individual behavior can be measured, analyzed and adapted to create high performance, quickly and effectively.  

Speaker Biography

Sid Henkin has more than 25 years of experience developing processes and tools to accelerate team development and improve team performance. He works extensively in helping organizations transition from directive to collaborative environments. He applies technology and an empirical approach to the issue of balancing technical competence and behavioral alignment for high performance teams. He has developed customer and team development programs for many of the world's largest transnational organizations, both in the private and public sectors.

Sid is internationally recognized as an authority on individual and team behavior in the workplace. He has developed customer and team development programs for many of the world's largest transnational organizations, both in the private and public sectors. Sid is Vice President of Market Innovation for Prism Learning Solutions, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan and is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Project Management practice.

He also serves on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Training and Development Organisations, a United Nations Non-Government Organization.

Sid has been a behavioral consultant and program developer for over twenty-five years.

Sid is a frequent speaker and presenter at both national and international conferences on the topics of Accelerating Team Development, Increasing team Productivity and the Impact of Behavior on Performance Management . He is published in trade and professional journals in both North and South America. as well as a contributing author to numerous management and team development books and periodicals.

FORUM INFORMATION

Presentation Abstract:

ABCD Risk Management is a highly disciplined methodology for identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and managing risks. The process is unique in several ways:

1. Sources of risks and potential risks are identified;
2. Risks are evaluated and prioritized using four specific criteria;
3. The criteria are qualitative, not quantitative. The process also makes clear distinctions between issues, problems, and risks; these are frequently confused. The process also relates risks to assumptions, based on an assumption analysis. The management structure for documenting, managing, and reporting risks and risk status is clearly defined.

Participant Objectives

1. Understand and be able to apply the definitions of problems, issues, risks, and assumptions.
2. Understand and be able to apply the evaluation criteria to assumptions and risks.
3. Understand and be able to perform an assumption analysis
4. Understand and be able to perform the risk prioritization process

This is not intended as a training course, but rather as a familiarization course. It necessarily requires two sessions because of the breadth and complexity of the methodology. The first two objectives will be covered in the first session, Objectives 3 & 4 in the second session.

Presenter:

Peter A. Hasek, PMP, is an independent consultant recently retired from EDS . He has a Masters degree in Physics and over 25 years of project management experience in the aerospace, automotive, and information technology industries. Mr. Hasek has created and presented workshops and seminars on Risk Management and Earned Value Management Systems to business organizations and PMI chapters. He holds a patent for a highly successful approach to teaching both of these concepts. Mr. Hasek is also a recognized subject matter expert in Microsoft Project, Risk Management, and Quality Function Deployment, and has conducted a number of classes on those topics. He has published articles in the MPA Project Network quarterly journal. He is a Certified Business Manager ( CBM ).