Rocky Mountain Chapter of STC January Meeting

STC Member Price:	$20
Price for program and dinner for STC members (except students).
Nonmember Price:	$25
Price for program and dinner for those without STC membership.
Student Price:	$15
Reduced rate for program and dinner for students, both STC members and nonmembers (please provide your student ID at the meeting check-in desk).
Program Only Price:	$10
This covers the cost of the program only and does not include a meal. A beverage is included.
An additional $5 will be assessed for attendees who want dinner, but who register late or show up at the door.
Alternately, if you wish to pay at the door, you can send an email to reservations@stcrmc.org and indicate the number of individuals in your party, whether you are a member, non-member, or student, if you are attending the program only, or if you require a vegetarian meal.

Agenda:

6:00 - 7:00 pm Networking

7:00 - 9:00 pm Announcements and program

Directions, Transportation, and Parking:

A map and driving instructions are available at this website: http://www.tivoli.org/tivoli/map.html.

Details:

Intelligent Disobedience is the ability to successfully counter the directions of management. To challenge, pushback and make suggestions to management that defend the integrity of your projects against the expectations of your stakeholder. Pivotal actions for true success as a project manager. Like the seeing-eye dog training environment that embraces “Intelligent disobedience” to train their dogs to “protect and ensure the safety of their masters, project managers need to know how to “disobey their masters” as a means of “saving the business”. Intelligent disobedience requires courage, solid presentation skills, political awareness in addition to insight on the projects they manage. It also requires a sense of balance brought forth with a sense of humor – after all you are comparing yourself to a dog as a means to be successful! This presentation is fun, informative and will provide you with an alternative way of looking at the challenges you face as a project manager.

Bob McGannon

About the Speaker: Bob McGannon is a PMI® certified Project Management Professional and IBM certified Executive Project Manager who has thrived from over 14 years of IBM management experience, all of which were centered around the creation, motivation and development of teams and the individuals that comprise them. Using his team building and project management expertise, Bob has brought together people from various cultures and perspectives to build cohesive high performance teams. He has performed this in the high growth outsourcing environment that has become such an integral part of today's business environment. Bob is also a certified coach for the Boeing Corporation. Bob's enthusiasm and business acumen have touched and motivated hundreds of people.

Bob has published many papers and business articles including topics such as the re-characterizing of problems as a way of finding new solutions, structuring teams for success, and managing change.

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