PMIGLC Dinner Meeting

Location: Southfield Marriott

Title: Resolving Options

By: John Canfield, Consultant

Time:

Check-in ~ 6:00pm

Dinner ~ 6:30pm

Presentation ~ 7:30pm

	PDU Code C011-031008
	Presentation materials

PMIGLC Forum

Title: Alternative Dispute Resolution: An Important Component of Project Management

By: John Tocco

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.

PDU Code C011-031008F

Dinner Meeting Presentation Abstract

Most project management work, and business in general, is conducted in meetings with a wide variety of team members, personalities, and opinions. All too often these meetings are either slowed or derailed by what many call conflict. Sometimes this conflict is disabling, preventing future progress. Sometimes conflict is laughable upon discovering a misunderstanding. All too often teams push the conflict under the rug, confused about how to handle it, preferring to make an easy, politically correct decision.

This program will help you learn to think about conflict as merely options. We will consider approaches and tools to help your project management teams recognize, appreciate, and prioritize options.

Speaker Biography

John has worked as an independent management consultant with hundreds of company leaders and teams around the world helping organizations build improvement and innovation capability since 1990.

John has an extensive background in working with all levels of employees in many types of organizations. John is an instructor and consultant for Advanced Practical Thinking Training, The American Management Association, The Canadian Management Center, The American Supplier Institute, The Forum Corporation, General Electric Financial Services (Six Sigma Black Belt instructor), Lean Enterprise Institute, Grand Rapids’ Right Place Program, and Outward Bound’s Professional Development Program.
With thirty years of individual and organization development leadership experience in both the people and equipment sides of processes, His onsite client experience includes the Armed Forces, auto dealerships, banks, colleges, conglomerates, credit unions, hospitals, manufacturers, schools, utilities, and shipping lines.

John has cross-cultural experience - 35+ countries in Americas, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

FORUM INFORMATION

Project Managers should encourage the use of alternative dispute resolution throughout the life of a project: from initiation through closing.

Presentation Objectives:

• Define the Concept of Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Explain the ADR Continuum
• Distinguish Between the Various ADR Methods Along the Continuum
• Review the ADR Language in a Standard Industry Contract
  
  

Presenter Bio

John V. Tocco, an assistant professor of Civil Engineering at Lawrence Technological University, focuses his classes on project and risk management issues. He provides mediation and arbitration services for construction and commercial disputes. John earned a construction engineering degree from LTU and a law degree, cum laude, from the Michigan State University Detroit College of Law.