PMI Dinner Meeting 
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Topic:  Coaching Project Managers: Beyond Technical Competency to Leadership Excellence
 
A great deal of project management training has been expended on the development of the “technical” skills of project managers.  These technical skills focus on project initiation, planning, executing, and closing a project to ensure that the proper documentation is in place to deliver the desired result.  Leadership training tends to focus on learning your MBTI preferences, you conflict sequence, and improving communication skills.  In both cases this training is viable and necessary.  What’s missing in both situations is the follow through, the actual application in the real world.  This is where the practice of coaching becomes essential.  Coaching is not consulting, coaching is not therapy.  Coaching is a process of supporting individuals become great leaders by discovering ways of “being” that limit or enhance productive relationships.  This briefing will distinguish between training individuals to be a leader and coaching them to become great leaders.  Through a set of examples, the distinction between coaching and training will provide insights into how this practice will create movement towards developing competent, effective project managers into competent, effective, and great leaders.

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