Workshop Overview

With the emergence of a ‘flat world’ and the Project Management space increasingly extending to a global economy a focus is on cultural competency, “managing lean” and optimizing resources. This also means that the demands on leaders, managers and team members alike – increases.

Add to this, change – as the ‘new constant’ – and we recognize the need today for accepting and managing change in the workplace, and learning how to harness the positive forces of pressure. Projects today need to fortify their environments with Peoples Skills resources to move away from Chaos and embed COHERENCE.

Education is part of the process, but behavioral and attitudinal change is what really makes the a difference. This workshop brings you powerful tools to address your customers needs specially when in the real time the customer is often unsure of his ‘actual needs and the ‘specs’ keep changing like the spinning wheel at a roulette table.

• This workshop will help define change in an encompassing holistic form. Understand what Change and Chaos really means.
• Discover the “early warning” signs indicating potential Change in Projects for yourself or others in your Project Team.
• Apply a toolkit of techniques for managing change. moving from Chaos to Coherence to avoid and reduce the impact of and managing Stress
• Learn how to manage high workloads in changing project environments that cause stressful environments
• Apply a series of practical skills to avoid stress due to change when Projects are implemented in offshore spaces or unfamiliar cultures and situations of potential
• Understanding Diversity vs. cross culture. We look at 3 areas in this workshop;
• Learn to recognize and harness the positive potentials that arise from change.
• Learn to use advanced, more flexible skill-sets for dealing with conflict - versatile tools we can use to pre-empt volatile situations, and to manage a range of difficult circumstances should they arise.
• Understanding Diversity vs. cross culture. We look at 3 areas in this workshop:
  1. having an open-minded attitude towards diversity,
  2. knowledgeable about cultural differences and
  3. differences more generally between groups and how they can competently interact with people who are different. Learn how to sustain ‘Execution Focus’ in face of continuous change
• Developing a team plan to handle workload, cultural and other parameters for change.
• We at QAI understand how to build bridges and create long lasting relationships amidst this fast changing scenarios of Processes, People and Technology .

• Senior Management – Vice Presidents, SBU Heads
• General Managers
• Delivery Heads
• Technical Managers
• Senior Project Managers
• Project Leaders
• Consultants
  

• Learning to resolve our conflict with Change. Conflict Resolution is a training topic which appears near the top of almost everybody's learning list. Increasingly, situations remind us that our inbuilt, instinctive "fight or flight" response to conflict is just not appropriate, nor sufficiently sophisticated for today's hi-tech problems and complex relationships.
• Learning how Change can be a positive as well as a negative force
• Application of toolkit of techniques for moving from Chaos to Coherence in fast paced Project scenarios
• How to discover premonitory indicators of Change in Projects
• Understanding and managing and stress and causes of Stress. How can we differentiate between Pressure and Stress arise from Change in our projects.
• Apply a toolkit of techniques for moving from Chaos to Coherence to avoid and reduce the impact of of Stress in Projects
• Learn how to manage high workloads in changing project environments that cause stressful environments
• Differentiate between Stress prone and Stress resilient individuals, whilst de-mystifying and de-stigmatizing different responses to pressure
• Learn to apply a series of practical skills to avoid stress due to change when Projects are implemented in offshore spaces or unfamiliar cultures and situations of potential pressure.
• Using a range of techniques to “re-stabilize” emotionally and maintain ‘Execution Focus’ in situations where they – or others – experience stress
• Learning to recognize and harness the potential for positive Change (i.e. stimulating challenge and “stretch”) in your Projects scoping, planning, aligning, negotiating, motivating, and emotional intelligence. environment
• Develop a personal and team plan for minimizing stress and managing pressure in their own team, function, organization or working culture

• Knowledge distribution through presentation
• Exercises based on Emotional Intelligence, NLP, Neuro Semantic and other Behavioral and Cognitive tools
• Roles plays
• Semi-unstructured interventions to enhance cooperative learning
• Working with altered states, breathing to generate harmonic resonance
• Questionnaire