5 Steps to Advance Your Project Management Career & Achieving Your New Year’s Resolution | Dr. Te Wu

Are you like me and millions of others who ponder during the holidays how to best reinvent ourselves? For example, is it time to transition from your current career to one that offers more opportunities? Or have you been eyeing a certification that just did not have time to pursue it? How about learning something new, trying a new activity, or just exploring ways to advance your current career?
In this webinar, we will propose our 5 Steps process to make and keep your goals. Using project management as a backdrop, we will suggest important and proven ways in which you can advance your goals - whether it is to learn new skills, experiment with responsibilities, or earning new credentials.
DESCRIPTION:
This webinar is created for business professionals, especially project management professionals, who are exploring ways to expand their skills, credibility, and marketability in the coming year. The presentation will highlight the current trends in project management and describe the following five steps to advance one’s career:
Focus - Pick one maybe two things you wish to work on in this year. Make sure the goal is “stretched” but not impossible.
Plan - Create a reasonable plan that accounts for potential problems. What are the few things you need to achieve the goals?
Engage - Engage to start working toward the goals right away or within a few days. Do not delay. Procrastination is perhaps the single biggest enemy of achieving your goals.
Adapt - Few goals can be achieved without some changes. Thus, it’s important to monitor progress and adapt to the changing situations.
Celebrate - Reward yourself not only when the goal is reached, but also along the way as you make progress.
These five steps are mapped to suggested goals, such as obtaining a new certification.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Dr. Te Wu
(PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-RMP)
Professor Te Wu is an academic and a professional with over 25 years of work experience helping businesses to improve their strategy execution, over 15 years of teaching experience empowering students with management knowledge and skills, and now over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur. His core belief is that most organizations and people have more ideas than they can successfully tackle. Thus, his recent work has focused on “getting the right things done, in the right way.” In his professional journey to date, he grew from the shop floor to leading hundred million-dollar portfolios. He is a researcher, author, speaker, teacher, and also a practitioner. Selective highlights of Wu’s work include the following:
Found and built PMO Advisor into a leading project management training (PMI Global R.E.P.) and consultancy
Professorship at multiple global universities including China-European Business School and Montclair State University. Also on the Project Management Advisory Board at Stevens Institute of Technology
Served/serving on two PMI Global Standard Committees: The Standard for Portfolio Management - Fourth Editionand The Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects
Serving as a U.S. delegate on the International Standard Organization’s Technical Committee 258 for project, program, and portfolio management
International speaker including many PMI Chapters around the world, PMI®EMEA Congress, PMI China Congress, and most recently across multiple cities in China at the invitation of China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs