Michael Stanleigh, CMC, CSP, CSM

In our personal lives, we make our own choices. We move, get married, start families, face challenges, change jobs, learn new technologies, develop new skills and so on. Not all of these changes are smooth but most of the time we seek those changes and make them successful. Yet in organizations we often feel coerced; so we use the only power we have to regain control – resistance. In our organizations we strive to manage changes with our colleagues and our employees but aren’t always successful. It is true that never in a time, in our own history, have we ever experienced change to the extent that we have had to do today. They force people to think in a new way. Today we have to ask ourselves – what are we going to do to cope with the present and better manage our future? We can help our departments improve performance, save money, increase employee morale and satisfy customers.

Be inspired and completed involved as you learn how to lead, guide and direct your organization to be more engaged and how to use creativity to increase employee engagement and generate more innovations. We’ll overview what is innovation and why innovation. You’ll experience how to use creative techniques to re-think and re-focus your experiences and engage your employees to create innovations that will improve your customer’s experiences and improve the effectiveness of your business processes. You’ll leave with many new ideas that can be implemented immediately and the tools, processes and techniques required to continue the innovation journey. The room will be set-up so that all delegates can work in teams. They’ll identify the issues, concerns and challenges driving the need to be more creative and innovative and then the opportunities that can realized through increased employee engagement and collaboration.

Corporations throughout the world are losing millions in wasted project spending and this waste is being carefully hidden from management and investors. The cost of the problem is staggering. We'll never know about the many projects in crisis in the companies in which you or I may hold shares. The reality is that examples can be found from just about every type of organization. We're left wondering what it would take to get these organizations to realize that a tiny fraction of their losses is all they would have to invest in order to save millions. Unfortunately, many firms seem willing to pay out millions needlessly on bad project management. In this presentation we'll explore these challenges. You'll gain knowledge about the project quality and audit processes through the many stories I'll share. There is an art to project quality and audit reviews that differs from generally accepted Project Management Office functions.