Intelligent Disobedience - The Difference Between Good and GREAT Project Managers

Course Length: 2 days

Course Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Professional Development Units (PDU's): 14

Current Schedule: This course is available to corporate customers and government agencies at this time. Scheduled on demand in a public forum. If you are interested in attending this course in a public session, call Mindavation at 1-866-888-MIND to be put on our wait list.

Course Price: Corporate customers and government agencies - please call 1-866-888-MIND for pricing of on-site courses.

Course Description: This is an advanced leadership course to prepare project managers for successful interactions with senior management and other various project stakeholders. Intelligent Disobedience is the ability to successfully counter the directions of management. This requires the project manager to challenge, pushback and make suggestions to management that defend the integrity of your projects against the expectations of your key stakeholders. Intelligence Disobedience is pivotal to true success as a project manager. Like the seeing-eye dog training environment that embraces intelligent disobedience as essential to success for assistance pets, project managers need to know how to “disobey their masters” as a means of saving the business just as seeing-eye dogs save and empower their masters with their vision and behavior. Intelligent disobedience requires courage, solid presentation skills, and political awareness. 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 course is fun, challenging, and informative. It will provide you with a different way of looking at the challenges you face as a project manager.

Key Learning Objectives

• Examine methods for proposing potentially unpopular directions or opinions
• Discuss approaches for successfully dealing with senior managers and stakeholders
• Learn how to craft compelling arguments to garner business support
• Propose a decision making process for when you should “bend the rules” or alter processes – leveraging common sense over common processes on an exception basis
• Find out how you can use intelligent disobedience to save the organization from itself!
  

PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas covered in this course:
Project Communications Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Risk Management

Course Prerequisites: A minimum of four years project management experience is required

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