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Well that went well. The free Project Management Workshop was conducted last week and received a good attendance, with people there from a number of different sectors. It was great meeting you all, catching up with some great friends and making some new ones.

I hope that you were all able to take away from it at least one piece of information that you’ve found useful back in your workplace.

I’ve provided the slide pack below as promised, and here are the Rules of Thumb that I discussed during the workshop:

• Treat others the way you want to be treated.
• Lead by example where ever possible.
• Edify, edify and edify.
• Use fact based management.
• Avoid emotiveness like the swine flu.
• Always do coffee.
• Consult, include, discuss, search for consensus then decide – bring your teams with you.
• Some days you are the seagull, on other day’s you’re the pylon.
• Leave the team alone to do their jobs, tell them ‘what’, don’t tell them ‘how’.
• Learn and practice situational leadership.
• Your team will never be perfect, so continuously strive to do the best with what you have.
• All project outcomes are a product of the constraints.
• Invest in the futures of your team members, give the gift of leadership and good example.
• Feel the fear and do it anyway.
• Anything measured improves over time
• Measure everything that moves, if it doesn’t move, push it then measure it.

There’s no voiceover for the slides and if you’d like more information about the rules of thumb you’ll have to attend a workshop!

I enjoyed presenting the workshop very much and I’ve since been lucky enough to be asked to provide the same session to a large organisation here in Hobart, which is a good outcome, it will include another donation to the Haemophilia Foundation Australia.

Next, I’m considering either partnering with an existing Registered Training Organisation to deliver a Diploma of Project Management course over a 2-3 weekends or a Certificate of Attendance course on Project Management. What do you think? Does your company or Department have one or two people that need more formal project management training or do you know of anyone that would be interested in attending? If so please ask them to click here to register their expression of interest.

In terms of when it could be held, I suspect that we’re a bit too close to the Christmas break right now to seriously consider attending or conducting a course, so why don’t we look at early in the new year, when we’re refreshed and raring to go for the new year. What better way to start the year off then investing in your own knowledge and skill sets.

Don’t forget to click here to register your, or a colleague’s, expression of interest.

Introduction to Project Management Slide Deck –