Technical expertise alone won't help you excel as a project manager.

For engineers who become PMs, technical skills are important, but these are needed to support, not replace your ability to be effective project managers. The real difference-maker is good communication.

Join Howard Birnberg to explore the value of becoming a good communicator, communication, especially when it comes to managing scope creep, running meetings, and preparing written materials.

TAKEAWAYS:

• Understand the importance of effective communications skills
• Learn how to have more effective meetings
• Recognize the steps to improve your written materials
• Learn how to become a better public speaker and why this is important
• Develop methods to communicate scope changes to the client, your staff and your other team members

Presenter: Howard Birnberg, Executive Director, Association for Project Management