Optimising Project Outcomes in Your Organizational Zoo

Arthur Shelley
Director, Intelligent Answers Pty Ltd

Two day workshop - July 7 - 8, 2009

This interactive and enjoyable learning event introduces your team to an array of innovative tools and templates to enhance project outcomes. Animal metaphor behavioural profiles and a range of other tools are applied in the workshop to stimulate innovation and productivity. The experiences from the workshop will enable participants to read people better, understand how to influence them, build better relationships and leverage diversity of the group.

The workshop participants work through their own project applying different activities to build a more robust and comprehensive understanding of influencing factors. This develops greater support for their project through the engagement and approval stages and helps to transfer ownership to ensure benefits continue to flow beyond implementation. The behavioural profiles help people to work together more effectively and ensure your team members are in the most appropriate roles to shine. They can also be useful for the selection and development of the right “characters” for team roles, business partners and matching relationship partners with key stakeholders.

Participating in this course will enable your team members to increase team effectiveness, leverage team diversity and balance team dynamics. It will also improve team spirit, collaboration and communication through introducing a sense of fun to the workplace.

Objectives

• Improve the performance of project outcomes and their ability to sustain desired benefits
• Increase understanding of workplace behaviours and team environments.
• Enable project managers to better assess team member’s behavioural strengths.
• Provide participants with concepts and tools they can apply in their projects which create better interactions and improve project outcomes.
• Leverage diversity of strengths through relationships and networks
• Indulge in some fun whilst learning how to decrease stress.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this seminar, participants will know

• How to build more productive relationships in project teams and between the team, sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Increased awareness of the importance of individual and team behaviours and their impacts on project outcomes (and how to positively influence this).
• How to apply practical tools which enhance the project experience and improve outcomes. (session includes concepts and templates which are immediately applicable in projects).
• Understand how to leverage diversity of behaviour to enhance team performance.
• How to reduce stress and engage in productive fun through the use of behavioural metaphors.

Seminar style

• The workshop is an interactive session combining presentation of concepts, discussion about how they apply and then practical exercises to provide experiential learning.

Target Audience

• Project and program managers, sponsors and stakeholders who want effective, novel means to improve project outcomes and decrease stress in project environments.