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Merv Jersak provides upbeat, fun, inspirational presentations and training programs for organizations that are in the business of getting results through the work of teams. His clients include IT consulting firms, internal IT departments and corporations with large teams that benefit from his 40+ years’ experience in project delivery.
What is KEY to his presentation delivery is the art and skill of putting people first! These overlooked skills must be present alongside those highly emphasized technical skills. Teams walk away from Merv’s presentations with new insights, practical techniques, and a roadmap to greater success and satisfaction in their team efforts. He delivers proven ideas and principles that go straight to your organization’s bottom line.
Position for Success: Mastering the Art of People, Projects and Profits
When leaders focus on the human factors in guiding their teams, success and bottom line profitability follow.
Team interactions are complex undertakings with infinite numbers of moving parts and challenges. Learn why they require focused attention and strong coordination across both your team and the customer organization to be positioned for success.
Learn how:
team members and customer staff can work together synergistically to deliver a product that both organizations are proud of
focusing on “people first” is equally as effective in your teams’ success as is their ability to follow their workflow and their technical capabilities
prioritizing human factors in team leadership leads to higher probability of success and higher profitability
working with customer staff as co-equal partners leads to higher satisfaction and more successful outcomes
Develop Powerful People First Skills to Grow a Dynamic Team & Create Greater Project Success
Project managers possess highly-tuned technical skills in managing projects — yet do they know how to put people first? By adding the human factors to your projects you begin to powerfully ignite your teams to greater productivity and project success. Timelines and To Do Lists will get your projects only so far — and instilling the “people first” skills to your project will make a lasting impact and allow your organization’s profits to soar.
The PMBOK® Guide and PMP certification, while absolutely essential, are simply not enough. Uncover the secrets and the art of these powerful people skills that will dramatically accelerate your project delivery success.
Learn how to:
Instill powerful people skills and techniques that reflect directly on your bottom line
Increase efficiency, proficiency, and as a result, timely project delivery
Infuse proven human factors across all of the project management knowledge
Create powerful allies in your stakeholder groups
Set expectations and put fears to rest with your end-users to build more effective business relationships
Develop and grow in-house talent, productivity and profits
Powerful Communication Skills for Leaders that Unlock the Secrets to Your Success
In this presentation you will discover the reasons why teams produce results below their capabilities and what to do to avoid these failures in advance.
In this presentation, your leaders will the learn power of communication proficiency, and how to use it to unlock the art and skill of putting people first in your organization. You will also uncover the human factors that are so essential to effective leadership of teams. So often these communication skills are assumed or given mere lip service.
Learn how these skills are equally necessary to implement successful and profitable results for your customers. You’ve heard it said that the “soft skills” are the hard skills. Well, there’s nothing “soft” about communication skills — this presentation will teach you new skills that you can begin to implement immediately.
Learn how to:
Communicate in the ‘language’ of your customers
Bring your customer staff along as fully contributing partners
Differentiate your various audiences, and how to effectively communicate with each one
Conduct effective meetings that are informative, action-based, forward looking, and fun to attend
Use e-mail effectively, when to use it, when not to, and the etiquette surrounding email
Write effectively for a non-technical audience
Bolster your teams’ commitment and productivity
Transform Tech-Talk into Powerful Presentations That Instantly Connect You to Your Team
Crafted from the perspective of a life-long Project Manager and customized specifically for today’s Project Manager, Merv provides these highly interactive sessions to teach proven effective presentation skills. But don’t be deterred by the project management focus – these skills are readily tailored to your specific needs.
Whether presenting a proposal, a project progress report, a technical explanation to your major stakeholders, or a pep-talk to your project team — who better to deliver it than the Leader? Yet so often these same leaders, so skilled in their day jobs, lack basic presentation skills.
Uncover the skills to go from a liability at the front of the room to a powerful, persuasive communicator that effectively connects to the hearts and minds of your team.
The ability to deliver effective presentations is a learned skill. In this presentation, your tech-talking professionals are transformed into clear-messaging presenters. They become comfortable with the audience, the medium, and the message.
Call Us
916-719-4635
Email
Merv@PeopleFirstProjectManagement.com