Presentation: Diving Deep into the Talent Pool — Getting the Best Out of Your Project Team

Abstract: So, you have a project to lead and manage and you need to put a team together, to drive an idea into reality. Now you may have the luxury of picking your own team members, but very often you have to comprise your team of people that are selected for you, from near and far, some you may know and many you do not.

How do you take this “rag-tag” team of potential superstars and turn them into one cohesive project delivery success story? Well, that’s what this session is all about.

Learn how to:

Assess the talent you have in the first 30 minutes instead of the first 30 days. Let’s face it, you do not have that kind of time very often.
Develop talents and skills that are lying dormant within every member on your team, that will make them better team members and create more highly capable individuals, with paths created to succeed long after your project ends.
Determine what motivates your team members to do work on your project because they want to and not just because they must do it.
Leverage the skills of influencing and negotiation to take your team members efforts and outputs to greater heights then when they first started your project, so they can be proud of their accomplishments and have the desire to work on another project with you in the future.

It has often been said that projects are all about processes and procedures, but the “true” reality of why project’s succeed while others fail, is the PEOPLE that the project manager surrounds themselves with and how well that project manager develops them and those on their teams into the very best at producing successful project outcomes. That’s what being a project manager is truly all about today.

PMI Talent Triangle: Leadership

Biography: Multi-national CEO, Top 360 Entrepreneur in the USA 2018 (#57), two-time Best Selling Author and Radio Host of “Myles of SUCCESS”, Myles Miller is the CEO and Founder of LEADUP, LearningBreaks and SUCCESSHQ, international training and success development companies spanning 6 continents and employing 500 plus contractors operating in over 100 countries around the globe.

Myles has over 30 years’ experience in the project management field, across multiple industries including retail, defense, state and federal government, international countries and hospitality. During his varied career, he has led projects and programs impacting the United States and countries abroad ranging in budgetary size from $100K to $500B and leading teams of over 10,000 members.

Myles has a BS in Business Management from Penn State University and an MBA from La Salle University in International Business Management and recently acquired his PhD from Baylor University.