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Synopsis

This course includes exercises, discussion and presentations inside which attendees apply the latest findings from researches on personality into their workplace in the project environment. The approach is to facilitate experience sharing, knowledge transfer and attitude shaping in a highly engaging way to ensure that attendees could manage stakeholders effectively in their workplace from a new perspective – Core needs of Personality by Personality Dimensions © (PD originated from Canada Researchers)

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Perform stakeholder management processes according to latest PMBoK Framework
• Grasp the knowledge about coreneeds of stakeholder with different types of personality through the lens of “Personality Dimensions © (Canada)” (PD)
• Experience the propriety psychological tools for personality and in-born core needs analysis from PD. PD personalized report
  will be given to attendees.
• Evaluate major stakeholders’ personalities and core needs
• Approach stakeholder with appropriate strategy based on their in-born and nurtured personal preference
• Prepare reports, emails, presentations in different style fitting the preferences and personalities of audience
• Enrich the project communication strategy that matches the project participants’ needs
• Manage conflicts more efficiently

Detailed Course Outline

• Stakeholder Management
  • Stakeholder Management Process and Tools
  • Modern Researcher Findings
• Personality and Core Needs
  • History of Personality Analysis
  • Research Findings on Common Types of Personality Tools
  • Introduction to Personality Dimensions © (Canada)
  • Taste of Personality Colors (Propriety Tools)
  • Report of Individual Personality Types
• Strategy of Approaching Different Types Stakeholders
  • Based on Personality Analysis results devising appropriate strategies on different situations
  • Communication Strategy for different types of stakeholders
• Origin of Conflict Management
  • What is Conflict?
  • How to minimize conflict using PD analysis?
  • Tools and Skills on handling conflict on individuals and organizations
• Practice / Case Study
  • Analyze live cases

Audience

This course is intended for project leaders who need to manage stakeholders. This course is intended for project managers/ program managers/ team leaders/ people managers/ team members who want to hone their stakeholder management skills to maximize the project benefits (satisfied customers, happy upper management, high teamwork, high quality, fast delivery and reasonable resources) by lowering the nontangible obstacles – stakeholder tension – in project environment.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, project leaders must have:

• Strong knowledge of project management
• Experience of managing stakeholders in project environment
• Some understanding about the stakeholder management processes and tools stated in international project book / Guide e.g. PMBoK
• Ability to share, articulate and present knowledge, experience and information in a systematic and clear way
• Willingness to join the class activities and learn from each other

Instructor’s Profile

Dr. Kelvin WAN, Global Master Trainer and Corporate Coach of a Listed MNC
Mentor, MPhil Graduate, HKU
Mentor, MBA Student, CityU HK
Advisor, SCOPE, CityU HK
Master Trainer and Founding ExCo, iLEAP, Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS)
Ex-VP Certification of PMI HK, PMI
Trainer of the Year (Champion), HKMA
Distinguished Trainer, HKMA

Dr. WAN is a “3H” High-touch, High-energy & Highly engaged Live Trainer and Corporate Coach. He has been providing “live” training and coaching to 7000+ executives in last 20 years coming from US, UK, Middle East, Asia Pacific regions and GBA on psychological resilience, stress management, coaching, happiness, soft skills, methodologies and company strategies. The average project experience of participating leaders is 15 years. He is also a practitioner-scholar. His recent research paper about Soft Competence for executives has been accepted by a renowned US forum and published on major search engines.

Kelvin is an experienced project professional. He has been the global PMO Lead in HSBC to rollout a multi-million USD e-learning platform to 330,000 staff members in 78 countries. In his current role, his main responsibilities are overseeing the project professionals upskilling, individual life/career coaching, positivity (positive thinking), staff’s level of happiness, stress management, talent (HiPo) management, capability assessment and curriculum development for the listed company.