Project Managers have a difficult job. You are expected to please everyone. You are expected to be part psychologist, sales representative, forecaster and motivator… while delivering results.

You are asked to work under trying conditions that often include:

• Your boss wanting you to bring the project on time and under budget, and;
• Your customers wanting you to manage all competing expectations (vendors, team members, stakeholders, customers, suppliers), and;
• Department managers concern about how the project will affect their departments, and;
• You have a new team to deal with and you just met them, and;
• Users are anxious because they know things are changing but they don’t understand how change will impact them.

What’s a project manager to do?

We have a time tested, proven methodology to make every task easier for you: The Platinum Rule®, created by Dr. Tony Alessandra. This concept will help you communicate effectively, make others want to follow your directions, reduce tension among teams and help you win others to your way of thinking.

Companies all over the world have embraced the Platinum Rule during the last 30 years… because it works. Over one million people have been exposed to Dr. Alessandra’s teachings through books, workshops, speeches, seminars, DVDs and CDs. His courses include: Relationship Strategies, People Smarts, Collaborative Selling, Street Smarts, and The Art of Managing People.

We have worked directly with Dr. Alessandra and have created a course designed specifically for project managers to help you become more effective in your dealings with upper management, employees and customers.

We will teach you how to recognize the behavioral styles of others and how to make small adaptations in your behavior to lower interpersonal tension while increasing trust. During this session, you will learn step-by-step methods to:

• Get individual team members to see the big picture as well as their individual roles in the project
• Present concepts to others in a pleasing manner
• Motivate each member of your team
• “Sell” new projects or project change requests to both your manager and your clients
• Learn the most effective ways to present bad news to others

If you want to improve your effectiveness, as a project manager and as a person, while reducing the stress associated with working with so many different types of people, then this workshop is for you. You will learn:

• Your natural behavior style
• How to identify the behavior style of others
• How to understand the strengths and weaknesses of people with other styles
• How to capitalize on your strengths while minimizing the weaknesses
• To develop communication strategies that are easy to learn and implement

When you attend this workshop you will receive:

• An assessment of your behavioral style with a 41-page personalized report
• A 360 degree assessment of how others view your behavior style - up to 20 people
• An e-book that describes in detail the different behavior styles
• A full day to understand and implement effective tools and techniques

After you have pre-paid for your workshop, you will receive a link to take your on-line assessment (where you can invite up to 20 people to provide anonymous feedback about your behavior style). The assessment results will be reviewed and discussed in class. You do not have to share your own assessment results with others.

Certification process requires class participants to write a five-page paper on the application of The Platinum Rule in their place of business. It can be on a specific project, how it was applied on a project team or in a team setting or other business application. A manager must approve the project. There will be a limit of 45 days after the workshop when papers will be accepted. If it takes longer that 45 days a $100 fee will be required for processing, otherwise a certification will not be provided.

If you are interested in learning more please call Ron FInklestein at 330-990-0788. The next class is scheduled for June 1, 2006  in Cincinnati. Send me a an email at ron@akris.net and let me know your interest in this course and I will send you the details when they are finalized.