Mindavation performs keynotes specific to project management and leadership enrichment. The following are typical keynote presentations available for your organization. Mindavation keynotes are highly engaging with take-away ideas, templates and tools.

Intelligent Disobedience - The difference between good and GREAT Leaders

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.

Interactive Training Techniques for Technology Professionals 

Effective interactive training doesn’t just mean arranging for students to sit in front of a PC and work with an application. Technical complexity requires that staff receive information technology management skills in a pragmatic, applicable and fun way. This session will provide attendees with success criteria for effective interactive exercises and will include a hands-on exercise that brings technical management principles to life in a fun way.

Creating memorable training sessions that genuinely make a difference for your business requires dynamic delivery skills and significant opportunities for interaction. Truly good interactive exercises teach a number of skills that can be applied outside of the classroom.

Increasing Your Perception As A Leader - A Guide for Project Managers

Increasing Your Perception as a Leader examines behaviors and situations that inhibit or enhance your effectiveness as a leader, and addresses tools and techniques to alter your approach. Information technology project managers, especially those working in “matrixed” organizations, must rely on their leadership skills to assemble and maintain viable project teams. This presentation will present practical tools and techniques to examine and increase your leadership perception – complete with an interactive exercise to reinforce principles discussed in the presentation.

How to Turn Project Meeting Disasters into Motivating Opportunities

Tired of those project meetings that seem to turn into disasters, even with the best laid plans? It’s time to turn those disasters into meetings that add value to the project work, save time and serve as motivation to your project team! We will discuss simple tools that work -- ground rules, agendas, and meeting minutes that focus on actions and decisions. Learn to use meeting roles and responsibilities to involve the entire team in order to engage them and keep the meeting moving in the right direction.

Make your project meetings the ones that others actually want to attend! Use a quick team building exercise at your meetings to learn more about your attendee’s styles, what motivates them and understand how you can better meet their needs. Find out about “What Makes for a Great Day”, “Seven C’s” and how you “Draw the Pig” in order to learn more about each other. Add a little fun to your project meetings and turn those disasters into opportunities for motivating your team!

Critical Judgment - Increasing the Depth of Your Project Management Prowess

Project management, for most of us, is an "accidental profession." 
Becoming adept at project management however is far from accidental. 
The skillful project manager has learned from repeated experiences to 
predict project issues and prevent them before they occur, or before 
they adversely impact their organization.

This presentation discusses the primary elements and skills required to design a "responsive" project - aggressively managing the project plan, employing a decision making strategy tailored to your customer’s organization, and putting together presentations that are effective when working with executive management. Accelerate your experience level in just one hour with this action packed interactive presentation.

Recovering Troubled Projects

Projects in crisis can be resurrected by using sound project management techniques and strategic approaches to assessing project issues. The presentation will examine strategies for quickly evaluating project health and assessing the capabilities of the project team, stakeholders and the validity of the requirements. In addition, the presentation will take the attendees through the development of a checklist of alternatives that can be applied as they seek to revive projects in their own business environment.

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Mindavation increases innovation, personal satisfaction, team synergy and productivity of individuals and teams by presenting workshops, which stir up the creativity, and skills that are deep within you! Your existing corporate experience is leveraged to provide a learning environment that is fun, highly interactive, with lasting and practical techniques you can apply immediately to your corporate environment and your personal life as well.

We are affiliated with leading organizations including; PMI, NSA, ASTD, and WITI. We have offered many keynote presentations for PMI and ASTD chapters and symposiums across North America.