Life Is a Project (ACE)

LIfe Is a Project -- How Are You Managing? (ACE Round Table)

Round Table Discussion

Association for Consulting Expertise

Friday, December 21, 2012

Portland Country Club

We walk backwards into the future. We enter each day confident it will be pretty much like yesterday, and we expect the same tomorrow.

Then some traumatic interruption horrifies us, or maybe the accumulation of some acceptable annoyance arrives at critical mass. And everything changes. We can be paralyzed with horror. Maybe driven by impulse into some behavior that makes it all worse.

More routinely, along our way we gather perceptions of the need or desirability of changing direction, seeking and building new relationships, exploring new possibilities . . . but the needs and bright shiny distractions of the moment occupy our days. We never get to that hilltop we once glimpsed through the busyness of our lives. Motivation sags under the weight of a thousand quick little decisions.

We coulda been a contendah, but then it’s too late.

This workshop provides a kit of handy tools for the busy professional to use to establish a balanced personal methodology for managing daily priorities that include appropriate provision for risk and for progress in building a new future.

Organizations need frequent tune-ups to maintain effective workflow amid change. Jim has long experience – plus creative tools -- to help executives analyze their organizations, then design and implement better ways.

Project Management is the 21st-century model for managing complex, risky innovations to on-time outcomes within budget. Jim Milliken offers workplace-tested designs in customized formats for onsite implementation and classroom training.

Communication is the lifeblood of human organization, in small partnerships and large corporations – and the pipeline to their markets. Jim provides practical approaches to all the oral and written forms.

Personal Productivity is fundamental, and it consists of skills that can be examined, practiced and perfected. Likewise Leadership and Supervision. Jim has common-sense training designs for dozens of these essentials.

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