Event Type: GTIS Branch Event

Facilitator: Joan Rempel; Jane Lavelle Farris

Title: Raising the Bar - Strategies for Project Management Performance Improvement for 2017

Synopsis:

“Your Year in Review as 2016 Draws to a Close”

Increasingly, project managers are being asked to improve outputs; to achieve more in less time with lower budgets.

IT project managers are exposed to leadership training less and less; however, expected to achieve more. 

You will learn the keys to project management success, identify project management challenges, and create a plan to raise the bar on your own performance for 2017. 

Teams will review their year in terms of Leadership, and leave with a personal action plan.  The format is interactive with groups executing the requested actions. 

Attend this interactive workshop to get up-to-date on what your colleagues are experiencing in the field, to develop success strategies and to create a personal action plan.  

Participants will: 

• Identify behaviors, skills and practices that resulted in project management success in 2016; 

• Know what significant challenges they faced as project managers in 2016; 

• Create a strategy for maximizing successes and mitigating challenges as project managers in 2017; and, 

• Prepare a personal Action Plan to increase their success as a project manager moving forward. 

Attend this program to learn how to improve your leadership performance in 2017! 

Facilitators Joan Rempel, PMI / ATC and Jane Lavelle Farris, MLIS will draw on decades of management consulting to ensure this event’s success.  Raising the Bar is designed and facilitated by Joan and by Jane, both of whom are coaches and master facilitators drawing on decades of experience with clients like Ontario Professional Chartered Accountants, the Ministry of National Defense, IBM, and the Canadian Banks.

Bio:
Joan Rempel, BA (Hons), PMP, ATC

Joan Rempel works with clients to implement projects, manage multi-vendor/multi-business group assignments and deploy and lead teams. She specializes in client satisfaction and team building. Her clients include RBC, BMO, CIBC, etc., spanning North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

While working for IBM in the e-business consulting group, Joan managed and resourced project managers and IT consultants. Also for IBM, Joan ran a consulting practice in New York City. A sample of NYC clients includes New York Life, Citigroup, MetLife, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, BMW, etc. Post IBM, Joan built a project management / business analysis competency centre for TD and managed the recruiting for TDCT IT.

Joan has an Honours B.A. from the University of Waterloo, a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and acts as a career development coach for project managers. Joan is trained as a coach with the Adler Faculty of Professional Coaching and is being certified through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Joan is currently coaching on leadership, decision-making, structure and balance, career development, life goals, productivity, project and program management, and relationships. Coaching for Joan is a vocation that provides the opportunity to use her gifts for the community.

As well, Joan teaches Project Management to international students at CeStar College.

Joan was a Big Sister with Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), and a volunteer with Save the Children.

Jane Lavelle Farris BA (Honors), Masters Library and Information Science 
Jane Lavelle Farris helps clients get results through people.

With over twenty years’ experience in business consulting, organizational design, leadership development, performance management, talent management, employee engagement, facilitation and coaching Jane’s clients list includes AMD, AGF Alcon, Allergan, AT&T, Blackberry, Blakes LLP, Bell Canada, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cadillac Fairview, Campbell Soup, CGI, CIBC, Coca Cola, DB Schenker, Deloitte LLP, Eli Lily, Ford Motor Company ,General Mills, GSK, Hershey, Inco/Xstratra,  Ministry of the Attorney General, Government of Ontario, Ministry of National Defense, Government of Canada, Novartis, Pfizer, Scotia, Tangerine Bank, TD Visa, Timex, Toronto Star, Torys, and Westinghouse. 
Client results have included among others, “the best results in eighteen years,” “saving $40,000.00 in each brand planning session,” “increasing employee engagement from 68% to 87% for one team in less than six months,” and “accomplishing more in one 60 minute meeting than in a 2-day off-site.”

Jane is trained as a coach with the Adler Faculty of Professional Coaching and is being certified through the International Coach Federation (ICF), is a Certified Wellness and Lifestyle Manager, and is certified in Leadership Effectiveness Analysis 360⁰ Feedback and Coaching and the Six Thinking Hats™ Creativity and Innovation thought ware.

Jane is an adjunct coach for the Simon School of Business Executive MBA program, writes for business, has finished her second screen play, has worked with AIDs orphans in Africa and works weekly with the homeless in Toronto.