Leadership skills required to motivate people and influence their behavior are critical for Project Managers, but difficult to learn. Truly influencing other people means engaging their attention and aligning it toward your business goals. Research shows that the mental-emotional dynamics driving this process involve different parts of the brain than are used to learn cognitive or technical skills.
This talk explores the role of Neurophysiology in decision making and behavior that drives influence. It will provide practical and easy to use techniques to apply this learning to affect decisions, actions and business outcomes that align with your goals.
You will learn how to work effectively with difficult people, connect with their motivational drivers and conquer the mental-emotional inertia that impedes progress. You will also learn how to increase your self-awareness of limiting thought patterns and affect immediate and lasting change in your ability to set higher goals and achieve bigger outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- You will learn techniques to
1. exert influence vertically and horizontally across the organization
2. identify cognitive filters and communicate effectively
3. overcome your own performance limiting mental-emotional barriers
Skill Level: Intermediate
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M. Mohan Shukla, Principal Consultant, PMP
Perspective Consulting Inc.
M. Mohan Shukla, PMP is an organizational improvement expert and high performance leadership coach. He has led Project Management Offices, Quality Systems, Six-Sigma programs and directed new technology implementation at global corporations for 20 years. He led culture change for a large industrial company and developed a Coaching for Performance program for thousands of managers.
Mohan has been coaching and mentoring leaders at several large companies and conducting workshops to improve leadership effectiveness. He directs the mentoring program for Project Management Institute’s Chicagoland chapter. He advises companies dealing with transitional challenges related to outsourcing and issues of global teambuilding and communication. Mohan speaks at management conferences and conducts workshops to teach practicing leaders how to better exert influence across all levels of an organization.
Mohan's work is targeted to raise individual and team productivity through self-awareness and a focus on the mental-emotional factors that drive decision making, behavior and alignment in organizations. His seminars and workshops emphasize the exploration of these internal processes to identify performance blockers and eliminate barriers to effective work relationships. The tools and techniques he teaches at these sessions also result in a greater degree of perceived freedom of action and raising your own bar of performance.
Mohan has a Masters degree in Management from Northwestern University and a B.S. Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He is a certified Project Management Professional, a Six Sigma Black Belt Champion and High Performance Coach.
Mohan can be reached at (847) 372-2736 or email Mohan.Shukla@withPerspective.com. Details about the workshops and coaching can be found at www.withPerspective.com. |
