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The Creative and Innovative Project Manager

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The creative and innovative project manager has become a business necessity. The challenges of managing projects in an environment of reduced resources, virtual teams, tight funding, schedule constraints and rapid technology changes require project managers who can think fast, innovate, and solve problems quickly and cost effectively while minimizing impact to the project team and project objectives. In this seminar learn how to think more creatively by utilizing a balance of left and right brain thinking and by applying a variety of idea generating techniques. Learn to generate more useful alternatives to project problems and learn about techniques that will assist in obtaining new ideas that will improve project and organizational performance. This is a highly interactive workshop that encourages teamwork and innovative thinking through a variety of exercises.
In this seminar learn how to think more creatively, generate and implement ideas, and practice performance-enhancing techniques to drive professional, personal, and organizational growth. Gain practice in creative thinking methods and learn how to align team and individual ideas with corporate needs to add value and enhance overall performance.
Who Should Attend
Project Managers, Project Sponsors, team leaders, directors, supervisors, employees at any level who desire to improve their ability to think more creatively and generate new ideas to resolve issues, improve processes or to improve personal or organizational performance.

Tickets

$35.00 Member Tickets
$30.00 Early bird rate until September 23

$50.00 Non-member ticket
$45.00 Early bird rate until until September 23

$20.00 All PMINYC Volunteers
$15.00 Early bird rate until until September 23

SPEAKER

Frank Saladis

Frank P. Saladis, PMP, PMI Fellow is the Owner/Founder of Blue Marble Enterprizes Inc. and Project Imaginers. Frank is an accomplished leader and contributor in the discipline of project management. He is the author of 12 published books, the past editor of the All PM Newsletter (an IIL publication) and the author of over 160 project management articles. Frank provides training and consulting internationally and has educated and entertained countless audiences with a special blend of project management knowledge and tasteful humor. He is also an experienced and well known project management instructor, consultant, professional trainer, facilitator, mentor, and keynote speaker.
 
Frank is the Originator/Founder of International Project Management Day which launched in 2004 and has been growing in recognition yearly. The goal of International Project Management Day is the worldwide recognition of the many project managers and project teams in every industry.

Frank was PMI's 2006 Person of the Year.  Frank is a PMP, a graduate from the PMI Leadership Institute Master’s class, and has contributed significantly to the organizations growth and knowledge base for more than 20 years. His leadership activity within PMI included President of PMINYC, President of the Assembly of Chapter Presidents, and Chair of the Education and Training Specific Interest Group. He also received the high honor of the “ PMI Fellow Award” and the very prestigious “PMI Distinguished Contribution Award”. 
Mr. Saladis is currently featured as a monthly contributor for the Project Management World Journal and is engaged in training programs for PMI's Seminars World ®.         
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