LCSI develops and delivers project management training in both individual and group settings.  All seminars feature exposure to modern project management techniques, providing a "best practices" orientation.

Note:  This was our last PUBLIC seminar in the DFW area.

"Secrets" of Effective Meetings
Regular Price $297.00

Registration Closed

We guarantee that you will learn more about effective meeting management at this 5-hour seminar
than you have learned in any other 5-hour seminar or we will refund your attendance fee.

If you have never attended a seminar taught by David J. Lanners,
you owe it to yourself (and those who rely on you) to attend this event.

Intensive 5.0 Hour Seminar - (5.0 PDUs)

Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money.  This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, link tasks to resources, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.

Who Should Attend
    New project managers
    Project team members
    Professionals with project management responsibilities
    Team leaders with diverse project staff to influence
    Professional working with multi-functional teams
    Candidates for PMP Certification

Topics Included:

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Value of meetings to Organizations

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Sources of Participant Frustration

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Meeting Etiquette

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Roles in Effective Meetings

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Meeting Preparation

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Cultural and Political Dimensions

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Inviting the Right Attendees

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Developing and Following Agendas

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Benefits of Ground-Rules

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Participant Preparation

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Consensus-Building Skills

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Lessons Learned . . .

 

Key Benefits

    Learn how to reduce or eliminate dysfunctional behavior in meetings
    Explore ways to motivate project team members and meeting support staff
    Learn how and when to implement change in a formal meeting agenda
    Understand how to leverage cross-functional resources in large meetings
    Learn how to use meetings effectively to achieve organizational objectives

 

Program Leader - David Lanners, MBA (Harvard)

As an executive consultant and President of LCS International, David Lanners specializes in helping senior executives and business owners build successful project-driven organizations.  He has refined his skills through more than two decades of delivering executive consulting services and seminars in operations management, new product development, engineering administration, and project management.  Before founding LCSI, he held technical, senior advisory and managerial positions with several major high-tech companies.  He served on the Industry Advisory Council for SMU’s School of Engineering and on the Program Advisory Council for LeTourneau University.

Mr. Lanners received his project management professional certification from the Project Management Institute in 1993 and served three terms as president of the 2,500+ member Dallas Chapter where under his leadership more than 1,000 local members earned their professional certification and the Chapter tripled in size in less than three years.  Mr. Lanners is certified as a quality auditor, quality engineer, and quality manager by the American Society for Quality.  He is also certified at the fellow level in production and inventory management and certified in integrated resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.  Mr. Lanners was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma national business honor society and is a member of Mensa and Intertel.  He received an A.E.S. degree from Normandale College, a B.S.B. degree from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard.

Competent project managers can expedite projects to completion, enhance quality, and save their companies money. This intensive seminar gives participants the opportunity to gain practical skills and useful tools that help them lead and motivate project teams, meet deadlines, cope with various project management constraints, assess risk, implement change, link tasks to resources, work across functional boundaries, document and report project status effectively, and much more.  This seminar is designed to provide you with practical skills that improve project processes and outcomes.

Registration Closed

 

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