COMMUNICATION FOR SUCCESS!
Have you been looking for ways to improve communication skills? As a project manager, possessing effective communication skills is the key to success in your career. CPMPAC is pleased to announce the Project Management Communication Program coming this MAY. The program will be delivered in a workshop format. Each workshop aims to provide an interactive session allowing participants to practice, share and advance their communication skills. Participants are more than welcome to share their experiences, real case scenarios and challenges with other participants.
PROGRAM FOCUS
Participating in this event, you will learn the tips and tricks on:
- How to facilitate a project meeting effectively
- How to deal with common communication barriers
- How to communicate with multiple stakeholders with conflicts in priority
- How to persuade team members to buy in your ideas and build rapport with management
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
One 2-hour workshop will be delivered monthly, starting May 28th, 2011. Each workshop exercise will be led by a facilitator. Each workshop accepts registrations up to 20 core participants allowing reasonable time for each core participant to take part in the in-class exercise. Limited seats will be reserved for observers to sit in the workshop. Workshop participants and observers are entitled to 2 PDUs after completing a 2-hour session. A theme and learning objectives will be pre-determined by the workshop facilitator.
COMMUNICATION PROGRAM MEMBERSIP
We encourage a participant to register every workshop module in order to become a communication program member. The membership will allow a participant to gain an integrated knowledge targeting on project management communications. The membership is the privilege to access all current communication club program workshops; it also applies your commitment to attend all the workshops. To join the membership, please check box want to join as a membership at first workshop registration webpage.
WORKSHOP MODULES
The theme of each workshop module is tentatively determined as the following. The theme is subject to change depending on the facilitators decision.
Module 1 Project Management Communication 101
Date: Saturday, 28 May 2011, 2:00-5:00 pm
Location: Scarborough Civic Centre, Council Chambers room,
150 Borough Drive ( map )
Scarborough, ON
M1P 4N7
Facilitator: Howard Huang, MBA, PMP,
President of CPMP, Senior Project Manager at RBC
- The key elements to organize/chair a meeting effectively
- How to organize a successful project kick-off meeting?
- How to organize a successful conference
Module 2 - Common Communication and Public Speaking Barriers
Date: Saturday June 18th, 2011, 1:15-5:00 pm
Locations: Committee room #1, North York Civic Center, Toronto
PDU: 3 PDUs, Expected 35
CPMP Member: Free
Non-CPMP Member: $10 (Waive if join CPMP onsite; CPMP Membership fee is $20/year)
Parking: Meter parking along with the surrounding streets, and indoor parking under the center ($5 flat fee). Free parking in residential area on east of Yonge (5 minutes walk through the subway tunnel
Subway Stop: North York Center
Facilitator: Alfredo Lopez, CPMP-member, DTM-Toastmaster
Alfredo is an Accountant, and was a Professor at the University of Mexico. He joined Manulife Financial Toastmasters in January 2002; he has served as the Treasurer, VP Education and Club-President. Outside his club, Alfredo was Division Governor. He was facilitator and Organizer in Training, Contests and Workshops for Toastmasters' clubs. He is very active and enthusiastic and he believes that: "Success in life is to make others succeed"
Agenda:
- The road map of speaking communication
- Understand what the common barriers are
- How to overcome the barriers
- How to improve public speaking skills
The second module has successfully finished, participants could claim PDUs using "PDU claim form".
Module 3 - Facilitating toward Success
Date: Saturday, July 23rd, 2011, 2:00-5:00 pm
Locations: Committee room #2, Scarborough Civic Centre, Toronto
PDU: 3 PDUs, Expected 35
CPMP Member: Free
Non-CPMP Member: $10 (Waive if join CPMP onsite; CPMP Membership fee is $20/year)
Facilitator: Cynthia Yeh, MBA, PMP, CPMP Member
Cynthia is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP) who works for Mount Sinai Hospital as Senior Project Manager. In this role, she is accountable for project plan, status report creation and information dissemination. She had contributed to a successful submission of multi-million health care projects funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.
Workshop Overview and Agenda:
This workshop is designed to provide the participants with an opportunity to learn and practice facilitation skills. Participants will gain the knowledge of how to prepare, conduct a facilitation session and what tools are available to a facilitator. Workshop agenda as the following:
- Welcome and Overview
- Ice Breaker Exercise
- Ground Rules Setting
- Definition of Facilitation (Facilitator vs. Chairing a Meeting)
- Facilitator's Role
- Leading a Facilitation Session
- BEFORE the session
- DURING the session
- CLOSING the session
- Dealing with Facilitation Challenges
- Break
- Case Scenarios Exercise
The third module has successfully finished, participants could claim PDUs using "PDU claim form".
Module 4 - Effective Communication for Project Managers with Emphasize on Negotiation and Persuasion
Date: Sunday, October 16rd, 2011, 1:30-5:00 pm
Locations: Committee room #2, North York Civic Centre, Toronto
PDU: 3 PDUs,
CPMP Member: Free
Non-CPMP Member: $10 (Waive if join CPMP onsite; CPMP Membership fee is $20/year)
Facilitator: Vijay Chander, Senior Program Manager at Rogers Communication Inc.
Vijay Chanderis a Certified Project Management Professional and leader with 9+ years of experience in program/project management, software implementation, and process re-engineering. Extensive experience in full lifecycle project management, quality assurance, business continuity, performance management. He has worked over 12 years in Telecommunication industry. Prior to Telecommunications, Vijay has also worked for Metro Toronto Zoo (not behind the cages) as an Assistant Curator on Butterfly conservation project, Tropical Rain Forests of the Philippines and India on various Conservation projects involving habitat development, wildlife management, community development and Community forestry projects.
Workshop Overview and Agenda:
This workshop is designed to provide the participants with an opportunity to learn and practice project management communication skills, particularly in negotiation and persuasion. Participants will gain the knowledge of how to negotiate and persuade project team members and stakeholders to buy in your ideas. Workshop agenda as the following:
- 1:30PM: Registration & Networking
- 2:00PM: Workshop begins
- 3:30PM: Break
- 3:45PM: Group activities, case analysis
- 5:00PM: Workshop Closes
The forth module has successfully finished, participants could claim PDUs using "PDU claim form".
Module 5 - How to Communicate Effectively with Executive Management
Date: Saturday, November 19rd, 2011, 1:30-5:00 pm
Locations: Committee room #2, North York Civic Centre, Toronto
PDU: 3 PDUs,
CPMP Member: Free
Non-CPMP Member: $10 (Waive if join CPMP onsite; CPMP Membership fee is $20/year)
Facilitator: Mr. Daju Gu, Managing Partner of the First North Consulting.
Mr. Daju Gu has over 20 years experience in project management and has successfully led many large initiatives in banking, capital markets, insurance and IT. During the past 2 decades, Daju has served various roles in project management including project manager, program manager/director and executive advisor.
Daju is the managing partner of the First North Consulting and is currently engaged as the program director for the Fixed Income CCP Program sponsored by TMX Group.
Workshop Overview and Agenda:
This workshop is designed to provide the participants with an opportunity to learn and practice project management communication skills, particularly in communicating and establishing rapport with executives. The workshop agenda as the following:
1:30pm: Registration & Networking
2:00pm: Objective of the Session
2:30pm: Role of an Executive in Project Management
3:00pm: Establish Rapport with Executives
- Understand your executives
- Organizational context
3:30pm: Manage Expectations of Executives
- Forms of Communications
- Coaching as a mean of management
- Leveraging industry best practice
- Working with executive.s manager, peers, subordinates and assistant
4:00pm: Case Discussions
- Case 1: Executive with different style
- Case 2: Executive with conflicting interests
- Case 3: Working with group executives(both internal and external)
The fifth module has successfully finished, participants could claim PDUs using "PDU claim form".
Module 6 . Coaching and team building through effective communication
Date: November, 2011 (Date TBD)
Facilitator: TBD
- What are effective coaching principles
- How to build a high-efficiency team through effective communication
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Workshop agenda will be provided by each facilitator prior to the workshop.
FACILITATORS?/ SPEAKERS?BIOS
Bio information will be available prior to each workshop
RECRUITING FACILITATORS
The Project Management Communication Program is recruiting volunteers to facilitate the workshops.
It is an exciting opportunity for you to exercise your presentation, public speaking and coaching skills.
For those who are interested to volunteer or recommend a facilitator/speaker, please email communicationclub@cpmpac.org.
