PMI-Southern Ontario Chapter

PMI-SOC Breakfast Meeting The Project Management Team, the Eyes & Ears of an Organization with Rodger Harding ***Online registration now closed, please register at door***

Date	Start	End		Event Registration
13 Nov 2007	07:00 AM	09:00 AM		Registration has ended.

PMI-SOC
Breakfast Meeting
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Date:         Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Speaker:    Rodger Harding
Topic:        The Project Management Team, the Eyes & Ears of an Organization
Location:   89 Chestnut Conference Centre, University of Toronto
                 89 Chestnut Street (Formerly Colony Hotel) Lombard Room - 2nd floor
                 Toronto, ON
                 Parking is available underground on-site or at any of the nearby outdoor lots, as well as City Hall

Topic Overview: The Project Management Team, the Eyes & Ears of an Organization

The Project Management Team, the Eyes & Ears of an Organization

Cost-effectively gather, process, and protect information

· Intelligence Awareness:

- Intelligence VS Information

- Intelligence Gathering VS Espionage

- Unnecessary sharing of information - What walks out the door?

- Information Gaps - What does the organization need to know?

· The Project Sales Team/Company member as the eyes and ears of the Organization

· Accessing available Information/Data/Knowledge to stay competitive Intelligence

- Mining Opportunities: What others unwittingly tell you; trade shows; industry events; random conversations

· Technology - Variable or last word?

· Establishing Client Confidence - The Human Factor in Information Gathering:

- Knowing what to look for - Look, Listen, Learn

- Look at the mind-set & decision-making process of the client

- Evaluate ongoing external client pressures, influences, regulations etc.

- Reading the clues…Formulating a theory…Understanding the impact

- Working with intangibles/uncertainty

- Strategic Communication, Relationship Management

- Reading/Factoring in ongoing client dynamics

- Processing Intelligence internally/sharing of information between business units

· Establishing relevance and selling intelligence internally

· Sharing information - Creating a ripple effect

· Negotiation: Overcoming resistance – Ensuring relevance to decision-makers

· Measurable Communication Success – Effective delivery techniques - An awareness of personal/team/company impact on others

About the Speaker:

Rodger Harding B.A. LLB deploys a wealth of experience that derives from an international career as a lawyer, diplomat and consultant, making for a stimulating delivery of seminars, workshops and interactive talks. His principle fields of expertise are Corporate Intelligence Awareness, Strategic Business Communication, Strategic Planning, Negotiation Skill Training & Leadership Enhancement, providing effective solutions to a broad range of clients ranging from business, legal, IT, industrial to government.

High value is placed on the unique role of each organization and individual to contribute to the ongoing evolution of good business. Excellent tools that enhance leadership, relationship building, strategic thinking/communication and business outcome prediction, provide immediate and residual value, while flexible program content and a collaborative delivery style allow for iterative and tangential learning that ensures relevance to most audiences.

Rodger's proven ability to impact on people from all walks of life derives from a career evolution ranging from the sophisticated diplomatic lifestyle of Paris, to the survival of death threats from mercenaries and modern day pirates in the Indian Ocean, to the management of multi-million dollar development aid projects. Notably he spearheaded the design and implementation of the training that allowed diplomats and government officials to successfully introduce the New South Africa to the world. Rodger was decorated for his intelligence gathering and strategic development accomplishments that fostered international trade relations. With more than a decade as a North American business consultant, his strongly hands-on, collaborative delivery style, stimulating perspectives and original content has proved effective and popular with companies and individuals who engage the services of his company. The pursuit of like-minded excellence underscores all client interaction

Rodger's book Corporate Intelligence Awareness: Securing the Competitive Edge was successfully published in November 2006. The material evolved over a period of 4 years in response to Corporate Intelligence Seminar/Workshop client requirements in the IT, Industrial, Financial, Sales, Broadcast/Media & Government arenas. The book provides a comprehensive guide to the often forgotten, yet highly cost effective, role individuals play in gathering, analyzing and utilizing critical business intelligence.

To find out more about Business Intelligence Strategies/Training visit:

www.corporateintelligenceawareness.com

CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE AWARENESS

Predict Future Outcomes - Secure the Competitive Edge!

Use available people expertise to find out what others don't know...and act on it before they do!

Maximize Information/Knowledge Awareness - Efficiently Gather, Analyze and Process Information

Protect Assets, valuable information, process and operational detail

Sell information/intelligence upward through effective report writing, and strategic relationship building

Corporate Intelligence Awareness, in people terms, refers to innate human capacity to think creatively when faced with the unknown or unproven. The greater the capacity of an organization and its people to work with confidence in the dimension of potentials, possibilities and maybes, the greater the ability to predict accurate future business outcomes!

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PDU's Earned: Attendees will receive 1 PDU for each instructed hour!

Agenda:

Registration & Continental Breakfast: 7:15 a.m. - 7:45 a.m

Presentation/Q&A 7:45 a.m. - 8:45 a.m

Cost (includes breakfast & 6% GST):

SOC Members: $20.00

Non-Members: $30.00

Sponsored by: TBA

Please Note: Reservations must be made by Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 12:00 noon. Reservations after this time are subject to availability.

Cancellations must be received 48 hours prior to the event send your cancellation notice to info@soc.pmi.on.ca the person making the reservation is responsible for all charges.