PMI Austin Chapter Meeting (In-Person Only)

Ways of Working

 

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Program:

Hurry! There seats are limited! We will open at 5:00 pm with dinner (vegetarian and non-vegetarian options available onsite) and informal networking sessions.

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.: Networking/Dinner available (0.5 PDU Power Skills) 

6:00 – 6:30 p.m.: Message from our Chapter President & Chapter Updates (0.5 PDU Power Skills) 

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.: Leverage Behavior Management to Increase Your Project Management Leadership Effectiveness - (1 PDU Ways of Working) 

7:30 p.m.: Green Dot-Blue Dot announcements & Post-event Networking 

Note: We will close registration 24 hours before the event starts. 

Speaker Bio

Paul Fjelsta 

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Over forty years of consulting, Paul has assisted Fortune 1000 clients measurably improve quality, costs, and productivity through development and delivery of major change programs focused on business process improvement and management, business-driven technology deployment, and leadership development.  

Paul’s journey began in the 1980’s with a focus on applying Deming and Japanese TQC methodologies.  In the ‘90s, Paul joined The Rummler-Brache Group (RBG) delivering engagements utilizing RBG’s Best Practice Business Process Improvement & Management methodology (clients included 3M, Applied Materials, Brown & Root, Cargill, Chevron, Citibank, Haliburton, H-P, Imation, Kraft Foods, US Intelligence Community, and Toyota).    

Paul launched accomplir®, Inc. in 2003 to develop next-generation improvement toolsets integrating Behavior Science into process improvement and IT / digital deployment methodologies.  Over the last fifteen years, these toolsets have been used in numerous engagements to improve change initiative people-dimension outcomes, results and ROI.

 

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Leverage Behavior Management to Increase Your Project Management Leadership Effectiveness

Description of Presentation

Decades of research show the majority of initiatives fail to meet performance expectations.  We believe this occurs because:  

  • lack of leadership effective engagement 
  • Initiatives tend to be technology-driven creating a lack of business ownership, and 
  • desired behavior changes are not adequately identified and prioritized.   

  

Typically, change initiatives: 

  1. Rely on communication about the case for change as the primary leadership engagement activity, and  
  1. Speak about behavior using “behavioral” clichés or umbrella statements that do not define specific desired leader and performer behaviors.   

  

Behavior Management defines behavior as “what I say or do”Behavior Management complements Change Management’s focus on people’s thoughts and feelings; it is Behavior Management that has the most immediate and lasting effect on behavior change by: 

  • Pinpointing desired behaviors; specified behaviors are observable and measurable 
  • Incorporating positive Consequences into leadership behaviors and the management systems, thus 
  • Demonstrating that behavior data and dialogue are the most effective levers for accelerating behavior change 

   

We have demonstrated leading with Behavior Management dramatically improves user change acceptance and yields more sustainable results, especially in technical, service, and professional environments.   

  

accomplir® has pioneered Integrated Methodology toolsets by embedding key Behavior Management concepts into Operational & Process Excellence and technology deployment methodologies.  During the last twenty years, this has enabled us to: 

  • Effectively drive business ownership of the change 
  • Explicitly identify and prioritize desired behaviors for performers and leaders  
  • Increase Leaders’ active involvement and accountability for sustaining behavior-change  
  • Achieve a 90%+ behavior change success rate across process / operational excellence and technology deployments 

Learning Objectives for Presentation

 

1. Learn the essentials of Behavior Management and the importance of (1) pinpointing behavior and (2) providing positive consequences and feedback to accelerate and sustain behavior change 

2. How to pinpoint and activate their personal leadership development priorities 

3. How to more effectively engage Key Leaders throughout all project phases 

4. Understand what are the key accomplir® Integrated Methodology tools used in a change initiative project context

Presentation Category (Triangle)

Power Skills and Ways of Working

 

Important Note: If you are a PMI member from another chapter, please register as a non-chapter member for this event and self-report your PDU credit. Also remember to use the same full name and email ID used for PMI membership.

This event will be recorded for our online audience. If you have any objections, we suggest you register for the virtual chapter meeting. 

In-Person Event Price: $35 for members and $40 for non-members.

Questions

For any issues with registration email VP of Operations and for questions about claiming PDUs email VP of Professional Development

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Information

Type of category: Chapter Meeting

Type of activity: Ways of Working

Date: March 25th, 2025

Hour: 17:00 to 19:30

Number of PDUs: 2

Price

Members:$35.00

Non-Members:$40.00

Location

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Village

2700 W Anderson Ln
Austin, TX, 78757