The Achievement Equation: Project Team Kick Off Event

Managers today are struggling to maintain morale while doing more with work with fewer monetary and human resources. This isn’t an easy task. Preparing for and completing a marathon is the perfect backdrop for examining the problems and challenges faced by today’s business leaders. The presenter implemented a $12 million IT project for $2.6 million.

 

The Achievement Equation combines long distance running and racing strategies with business strategies to develop a method for achieving your personal and professional goals. The business strategies include project, change, time, and stress management techniques and business strategic planning. Surprisingly, there are lots of areas of overlap between distance running and business strategies.

 

While all certified marathons are the same distance, the dangers, terrain, altitude, and weather offer unique and varying challenges. You quickly learn that hills build character.

 

• Running up and down 3,600 steps during the Great Wall Marathon is like managing a 3,600-task project schedule.

• Fighting through the Antarctica Marathon’s bitter cold relates to setting realistic project goals and self motivation.

• Encountering predators on Kenya’s Lewa SafriCom Marathon course is like managing project risks and mitigation.

 

Whether you’re in a high pressured meeting or encountering predators on Kenya’s high attitude Lewa SafriCom Marathon course, you must be a fast thinker. Your options are limited.

 

You must be able to react quickly to make critical decisions with limited information. The manager should weigh the advantages of a short term sprint with finishing in the long run.

 

You must become a marathoner, who successfully uses their knowledge to mentally and physically push towards new limits.

The Achievement Equation is based on four components. While we may have heard of these components, they have rarely been combined into a single, simple equation. Initially, it was thought that there wasn’t an equation, but a singular element. However, after examining failures, instead of successes, it became obvious that all four components were required for failure prevention.

This equation is multiplicative. Furthermore, the values assigned to the four components are binary. The values may be either zero or one. There is “no middle ground” or “half stepping.” Due to the multiplicative nature, the solution, called the Achievement Result, is either zero or one. If any of the components is less than 100%, the Achievement Result is never reached. That’s to say that the Achievement Result is either “all or nothing.”

 Through various in room exercises, you’ll learn how to

• Motivate yourself and your team members without a budget.

• Manage stress.

• Manage the negative, victim mentality.

• Embrace fear and risk to move outside your comfort zone.

• Develop leaders and staff members.

 

               

 

Keynote Speech Examples & Abstracts

• Finding the I in TEAM - Leadership Lessons From Some of the World's Toughest Marathons
• Selling the PMO (and Other Concepts) to Executives
• Preventing the Scope Creeper From Killing Your Project
• The Secrets to Successfully Select & Implement Business Software Applications

Seminars & Abstracts

• Debits & Credits for Project Managers: Fundamentals of Accounting and Related Business Cycles
• The Achievement Equation: Project Team Kick Off Event
• Managing Difficult Projects: Techniques to Sail Through (Or Around) The Perfect "Project" Storm (i.e. Limited Resources, Lack of Time, And/Or Changing Scope)
• Establishing & Maintaining a Project Management Office (PMO)

 

 

Anthony Reed at the PMI Latin American Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Audio Video Requirements

One 12' square screen or larger. If you're a small group in a small room, you may not be able to accommodate a 12' square screen. Please provide the largest screen possible for the room size.

• Access to an LCD projector and a laptop or PC for use with a CD or flash drive containing images in PowerPoint format.
• One lapel wireless microphone.

PLEASE NOTE: - Anthony would like 30 minutes with the AV technician prior to his presentation to test images & audio levels.