Many of these challenges are obvious. Communicating on tools such as Zoom can be challenging and frustrating. Direct contact and the human touch on projects is often lacking. Mentoring of project managers by current firm leaders is often absent or of low priority. Many training opportunities are missing as conferences, meetings, and other education sessions have been canceled or reduced to online only. 

Leadership can be challenging in the best of circumstances--the pandemic makes it even more difficult to transition project managers to firm leaders. Join Howard Birnberg to learn critical ideas and concepts to help you in this effort. During this 90-minute session, you'll:

• Examine how to protect PM development from the current problems confronting your engineering firms
• Review the characteristics of effective project managers
• Explore the importance of a written project management manual and the value of mentoring programs
• Flag leadership issues and learn how to correct them

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