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The AIM Workshop:
Anticipate, Innovate, Motivate

PMP® Exam Preparation Workshop

The AIM Workshop: Anticipate, Innovate, Motivate

Could your project managers or their methods use a shot of creativity? Finally, "The Aim Workshop" addresses that need in an interesting and informative one-day program. After a half-day session on creative thinking, participants practice applying the methods in three important areas of project management:

1. How to anticipate problems and events;
2. How to develop innovative solutions to problems, and;
3. How to motivate others in order to complete projects successfully.

SUMMARY

Successful project management requires creativity. For example, you must anticipate new risks. You must devise ways to turn win-lose constrains into win-win outcomes. You must imagine and communicate project benefits in a way that makes your project compelling. You must break through false restrictions in order to negotiate more successfully. You must brainstorm a list of benefits before you can conduct benefit-cost analysis. You must visualize various scenarios in order to develop realistic estimates and plans. During this workshop, you will apply four creative thinking techniques in a variety of project management situations that call for anticipation, innovation or motivation.

OBJECTIVES

Develop and enhance the contributions you make to your organization by being able to:

• List four barrier that limit innovative solutions
• Apply two analogous risk identification methods to discover a greater number of risks during the planning phase
• Apply the steps required to create scenarios for project planning
• List four reasons some people may fear and sabotage the success of your project
• Apply four strategies for turning win-lose situations into win-win opportunities
• Apply five negotiation methods of going beyond positions to uncover needs and interests
• List four ways to increase fun and ownership among project team members
• Apply the steps required to increase influence by improving empathy
• Apply three strategies for making project goals more compelling

During the opening half day, you will learn how to improve your creative-thinking skills in a number of different ways. In the following day and a half, you will focus your revived creative energies on ways to anticipate, innovate and motivate in a project environment.

COURSE OUTLINE: 2-DAY WORKSHOP

I. Create
   A. Recognize four sources of action
   B. Avoid four barriers to creativity
   C. Facilitate six communication channels
   D. Apply four creative thinking skills

II. Anticipate
   A. Identify more project risks
   B. Develop scenarios for improved project planning
   C. Identify subtle fears that can sabotage your project

III. Innovate
   A. Turn win-lose situations into win-win opportunities
   B. Negotiate successful solutions instead of defending positions
   C. Identify and quantify benefits for analysis

IV. Motivate
   A. Improve teamwork by putting a little more fun in your projects
   B. Influence others through greater empathy and awareness
   C. State your projects and tasks in a more compelling manner

V. Reiterate
   A. Negotiate for your share of a million-dollar project management budget
 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The ideal participants are project managers, project assistants, analysts and project sponsors in one of these situations:

1. Starting to manage projects that are increasingly unique, complex or large;
2. Striving to enhance creative thinking skills that will complement their technical, people and administrative skills.

PMLEADER
A Division of Innovators International, Inc.
9700 Valdez Drive
Des Moines, IA 50322-1325

Phone: 515-276-5914 or 800-829-5550
Fax: 515-334-0914
Email: lee@pmleader.com

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