Hands-on Seminar Applying Harvard University Global System^TM Tools
Leadership & Management Skills Workshop
Mastering the Skills, Techniques & Proven Tools

Ottawa-Gatineau Campus (Canada)
May 19-21
or
September 13-15
Located near the scenic Gatineau Park,
our campus is 15-minute drive from downtown Ottawa
and about an hour direct flight from LaGuardia Airport, New York.

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At the end of this hands-on workshop, you will acquire the proven skills to attract, empower, reward and retain talent, get commitment to a shared vision, delegate, bring out the best in others, and lead your team to success. You will learn to recognize true priorities; assume responsibility and accountability; manage risks; resolve problems and conflicts; respect diversity; build a culture based on trust and mutual respect; inspire; mentor and serve as a role model for others. And you will take home new ideas, including the Harvard University Global System^™ framework with proven tools and sound timesaving skills, most of which are unavailable elsewhere.

The focus is on practical skills, tools and techniques to improve productivity, build winning teams with management and peers, and maximize collective gains and value to your organization. The specific objectives of this workshop are to help you:

• Set and negotiate goals and priorities in partnership with your manager(s) and clients;
• Organize your day and manage time including deadlines, e-mail, voice mail, meetings, drop-in visitors and time-wasters;
• Validate where your time actually goes (based on facts, not perceptions);
• Understand the fundamental principles and levers of compatibility in order to build high-performing teams, improve communications, trust, and interpersonal relationships;
• Learn to take calculated risks to exploit untapped opportunities and adopt the cautionary principle based on the premise that one ounce of prevention is worth one pound of cure;
• Prevent crises, manage conflicts, difficult people and awkward situations assertively using Roger Fisher’s framework;
• Make your managers, peers and teammates more effective; improve working relationships;
• Assume more leadership and managerial responsibility without the benefit of authority;
• Clarify your role, prevent role conflict and excel in working with peers, multiple managers and demanding clients;
• Harness the untapped opportunities brought about by the power of new technologies;
• Practice in a friendly atmosphere and seek guidance from the seminar leader;
• Make your job more meaningful, build trust, and take charge of your growth and career plans.

Message from the Workshop Leader

This workshop is practical in every sense of the word by virtue of several unique features:

1. You will leave with proven techniques and skills to effectively manage the obstacles facing managers and team leaders such as the constant change in priorities and task urgency, the need to meet the expectations of multiple clients, limited authority, dealing with powerful individuals, scarce resources, coupled with the challenges to balance relentless work demands with personal obligations.


2. The curriculum integrates a rigorous, thorough and practical approach that goes beyond what colleges, universities and other competitors cover in courses of same duration. You will be trained to apply a unique framework derived from the seminar leader's own practice, and marketed under the prestigious trademark of Harvard University Global System^™. This framework was found practical and highly relevant to the needs of managers and team leaders who have attended this program.


3. You will acquire the best available course materials, totaling a market value that far exceeds what is currently available elsewhere. Your main workbook covers the agenda and includes supplementary papers and management references for keeping current and growing professionally at your own pace. In addition to the workbook, you will receive a set of Harvard management road maps, the latest Harvard Planner^®, two books (Herbert Shepard’s Essence of a Proactive Life, Alain Martin’s Bringing Time to Life: 120 Practical Tips for Managing Your Time and Enjoying Life), and several work-improvement templates (checklists) for running effective meetings, auditing your performance, and clarifying your role. You will also use FIRO-B, a powerful instrument to help you build and nurture a high-performing team, examine and improve your relationships, openness, trust, and communication with clients, friends and others. This instrument has been found invaluable by the participants in this program.


4. The workshop leader is also unique. Alain Martin helps managers and executives turn their potential into life-long success. Prior to presiding over PDI, he held managerial positions in operations research and systems development at Du Pont, Domtar and Bombardier Aerospace. He has also managed a variety of international projects including telecommunications, airport security, R&D, TV news-coverage evaluation, and the strategic turnaround of Desjardins Group (GDAG), a large financial institution. Alain is a Faculty Member of the Graduate Business School of the University of Quebec. He also teaches advanced risk management to senior managers and engineers assigned to nuclear-power projects (Atomic Energy of Canada, Babcock and Wilcox, Bruce Nuclear, and OPG). He is the author of Bringing Time to Life and Harnessing the Power of Intelligence.
   
   Mr. Martin is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. His training background includes people skills at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Alain has created the Harvard Business Planner and Harvard University Global System^™. He is currently the President of Harvard Business School Club in the National Capital area. His clients include Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing, Boliden, Bombardier, EDC, GE, Cap-Gemini, GM, Hilton, MetLife, Procter & Gamble, Skanska of Sweden, Ontario Power Generation, governments and NGOs.

In summary, this workshop provides you with leading-edge people skills plus tools and techniques to yield high payback to your organization and real worth to its clients, in the shortest possible time.

Alain Paul Martin teaches advanced risk management to nuclear-power executives and project managers. As a faculty Member of the Graduate Business Program of the University of Quebec, he also teaches strategy, principled negotiation, project management and leadership. Prior to presiding over PDI, he held managerial positions in operations research and systems development at Du Pont (petrochemicals), Domtar (construction and pulp & paper)and Bombardier Aerospace. He has also managed a variety of international projects including telecommunications, airport security, R&D, mergers & acquisitions, CBC news-coverage evaluation, and the strategic turnaround of a large North American financial institution.

Mr. Martin’s clients include Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing, Boliden, Bombardier, EDC, GE, Cap-Gemini, GM, Hilton, MetLife, Procter & Gamble, Skanska Cement of Sweden, Ontario Power Generation, The Association for Science and Technology in China (CAST), the Swedish Employers Council, The Engineering Advancement Association of Japan, telecom companies, governments and NGOs.

Mr. Martin is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School where he studied entrepreneurship. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Concordia University. His training background includes eBusiness and management of change at MIT, team building and people skills at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and principle-based negotiation and mediation at the Harvard Law School.

Alain has invented the Harvard Business Planner and developed Harvard University Global System^™ – a practical framework comprising management tools and road maps on human intelligence, issue analysis, strategy, risk and project management. He has coached trainers in advanced time management. He has been recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for "his outstanding contribution to the state-of-the-art of project management". He is currently the President of Harvard Business School Club in Canada's National Capital area.

As a participant, you will receive cutting-edge practical course materials, most of which are not available elsewhere. These include:

• A. P. Martin's time-management book titled Bringing Time to Life - 120 Practical Tips for Managing Your Time and Enjoying Life;
• A comprehensive workbook with extensive chapters on the topics discussed in the class;
• FIRO-B tool to understand the drivers of interpersonal compatibility in order to build high-performing teams, improve communications, trust, and relationships with your boss, staff, clients and peers;
• The Complete Harvard University Management Road Map featuring both ongoing and sequential tasks that no manager can ignore;
• A step-by-step risk-management road map
• A step-by-step time-management road map to plan your year, month, week and day;
• A professional template with a detailed checklist for planning meetings and recording outcome;
• Harvard University Time Log to help you eliminate time wasters and improve your performance;
• A practical responsibility-charting tool to clarify your various roles in all projects and assignments;
• The latest Harvard Planner;
• Herbert Shepard's essays on life and career planning titled Essence of a Proactive Life.

• Duration: 3 days from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day
  
• Value in Continuing Education Units: 2.25 CEU
  
• Tuition Fees:
  
  • Fees include books, hand-outs, road maps and other course materials of exceptional value (see above), a daily continental breakfast, a light luncheon plus hot and soft drinks twice a day.
  • Regular fees: $1195; Governments: $1145. Add taxes for non tax-exempted participants
  • Group fees for 3 or more delegates: $1095 per participant. Add taxes for non tax-exempted participants
• Locations:
  • Canada: PDI Conference Center in Ottawa-Gatineau National Capital area. Free parking. Note: Our Ottawa-Gatineau campus is located about an hour direct flight from LaGuardia Airport (New York). Directions available at www.executive.org/directions
  • Call us for U.S. locations in Cambridge (MA) and New York (NY).

For overnight accommodation, several hotels are located within 10 to 20-minute drive including Novotel, Hilton, Ramada Inn, Westin, Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Marriott, Sheraton, Delta, Holiday Inn, Days Inn, Best Western, Cartier Place Suite Hotel, Lord Elgin Hotel, and Minto Place Suite Hotel. Click here for detailed information about hotels.

How to Register: Please register by phone or fax and pay in advance by cheque or credit card.
Send your cheque payable to: The Professional Development Institute PDI Inc.
Fees include books, hand-outs, road maps and other course materials of exceptional value (see above), and a daily continental breakfast, light luncheon plus hot and soft drinks during the morning and afternoon pauses, but exclude hotel accommodation (if required).

Cancellation Policy: Participants registering as a group must send substitutes in lieu of cancelling.
For other clients, cancellations are accepted if made at least 10 working days prior to the course, and are subject to a $100 service charge per person. Full fees are payable by anyone who fails to attend or cancels less than 10 working days prior to the session. One substitution or transfer to a later course of the same duration is accepted.

The dress code is business casual at your discretion. Trust your judgment. When unsure, err on the side of caution. If overdressed, you can remove a tie or a jacket and roll up your sleeves. Members of the Canadian Forces and the U.S. defense community can, at their discretion, either dress casually or keep the uniform.

You will be reminded the first day to dress the way you feel most comfortable for a photo session the next morning.

Although every effort will be made to ensure a pleasant learning environment including a suitable temperature, we recommend you bring a sweater or a jacket to the classroom as individual comfort zones differ and sudden variations in the weather can temporarily affect air conditioning.

Also please kindly refrain from using strong fragrances during the session in order to accommodate your fellow participants who suffer from allergies.