PM Insight Sunnyvale Virtual Meeting - Powerful Communication for Breakthrough Leadership
PM Insight-Sunnyvale Virtual Meeting:
Powerful Communication for Breakthrough Leadership
Communication skills are among the most powerful tools available to businesses today. Study after study reveals that effective communication is one of the top skills required for success in life on and off of the job. In fact, the #2 reason that teams don’t achieve their goals is due to ineffective communication. And cross-cultural issues can greatly complicate the task of communicating effectively. You will leave this session skilled and practiced at listening generously to others, being a “thinking partner”, appreciating people meaningfully, navigating conflict, and creating a “thinking environment” that fosters significantly more effective teamwork. You will be able to rapidly create a meaningful connection and positive rapport with people from widely varying backgrounds, the foundation of successful communication.
Takeaways:
- Connecting Meaningfully: How are you Really?
- Listening Generously: Interesting, tell me more . . .
- Appreciation that Transforms: What - How - Why - Who
- Expressing Empathy: Observation - Feeling - Need Script
- Navigating Potential Conflict: A.P.I.
- Storytelling that Sticks: S.O.A.R.
About the Instructor:
Kimberly Wiefling
Kimberly Wiefling helps people achieve what seems impossible, but is merely difficult. She’s the author of the globally popular book “Scrappy Project Management - The 12 Predictable & Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces”, the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. Her latest book, “Turning Ideas Into Impact”, is an anthology with 15 other Silicon Valley consultants. A physicist by education, she worked at HP for 10 years in 7 different engineering and project management roles, including leading an R&D team launching a new mass spectrometer, then 3 years in Silicon Valley startups leading product development teams in hardware, software, and complex systems involving both. She’s worked with 50+ globalizing Japanese companies, and with people from over 50 different countries, helping organizations solve global problems profitably.
Kimberly lives and works in Silicon Valley, and has helped to start, run and grow many small businesses, including several that are still alive and profitable, and one of which grew to millions in revenue with only seed funding from her and the other founders. Kimberly’s superpower is turning managers into leaders and groups into true teams who can achieve “impossible” together. She’s been described as a “force of nature”, and is determined to use that force to make a significant positive impact on our world. Kimberly Wiefling is the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. She strongly believes that companies doing business across borders and boundaries of every kind are a powerful force for peace and prosperity in Our World. She is committed to supporting purpose-driven organizations in attracting high-quality investors and the most talented people through the competitive advantage of proven best practices in leadership and a healthy, vibrant organizational culture. She is known globally for her highly interactive, engaging, and transformative workshops, both virtual and in-person. - VIRTUALLY or LIVE IN PERSON (when it's safe to do so): * Keynotes * Workshops * Coaching * Consulting * Facilitated Working Sessions for Strategy & Projects Her big dream is that, one day, both investments and employees preferentially flow to these kinds of organizations instead of the soul-sucking variety, and the sick, twisted, dysfunctional organizations of Our World will wither and die for lack of financial resources and the talented people they've driven away to more life-affirming workplaces . . . for a better world!
Meeting Leader: Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM
Online Registration
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $5.00
Non-Members: $5.00
Students & Veterans: Free (Please contact Meeting Leader for the discount code)
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last-minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
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