The March 2007 PPSOSIG event took place on Wednesday 14th March 2007 at Aston University Lakeside Conference.
Have you ever had the opportunity to assess the work of your PSO? Do you have the right type of PSO that really delivers value to your organisation? How do you influence senior management and stakeholders when you do not have direct authority?
The event kicked off with a PPSO Profiling presentation by Hilary Small from CITI:
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Kevin Moir is the Major Projects & Programme Director at Middlesex University. He shared his experiences of implementing a PSO within a large educational environment.
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Internationally renowned project management expert, Sheilina Somani provides a comprehensive range of management, facilitation and mentoring experience across an eclectic range of business environments. As senior instructor she has developed, written, led and facilitated more than 300 training programs in over 40 countries, across five continents. Sheilina gave a presentation on influencing skills designed to help PSOs achieve results, where they may not have direct authority. This thought-provoking sessionpresented ideas and strategies for improving outcomes.
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Other sessions included discussions and presentations around the development of the people in your PSO:
• PPSO qualifications and CPD
• Mentoring and coaching of PSO staff
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> See the mentoring presentation (PDF, Large File)
About Sheilina Somani: Positively Project Management
Sheilina is an internationally known speaker, presenter and mentor; an independent project management consultant, offering consultancy, facilitation, instruction, support and development across all levels of experience and status for private and public business sectors Sheilina is a regular columnist for the PMNetwork Magazine, an active member of the Project Management Institute and is the VP of Education for the Diversity SIG. She is a certified as Project Management Professional (PMP®) by the Project Management Institute, PMI® and a member of the UK chapter of PMI®. Sheilina holds a Master Practitioner Certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
She was awarded the Palme D’Or award for best-in-track for the soft skills section of the conference program at the PMI European Conference in Cannes 2002 for her paper “NLP in Project Management – I see what you mean”.
Sheilina provides a comprehensive range of management, facilitation and mentoring experience across an eclectic range of business environments, including petroleum, banking, consulting, manufacturing and pharmaceutical and information technology. As senior instructor she has developed, written, led and facilitated more than 300 training programs in over 40 countries, across five continents