1. Next Generation Project Managers: Success Tips for Getting Ahead and Working Together Kamil Mroz Managing Director, European Centre for Project Excellence 20 November 2015

2. Who am I 2

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4. Setting the Scene…. 4

5. 5 Characteristics of the 21 st Century

6. Diversity Ambiguity Complexity Rapidly Changing Interdependent 6

8. Projects are Change PMI (website, not PMBOK) – “A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources.” PRINCE2 – A Project is a temporary organization that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed Business Case. IPMA – “A project is an endeavor that produces a clearly specified product, service, or result in a limited period of time within a limited budget.” 8

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10. 91% of Millennials (born between 1977-1997) expect to stay in a job for less than three years, according to the Future Workplace “Multiple Generations @ Work” survey of 1,189 employees and 150 managers. That means they would have 15 – 20 jobs over the course of their working lives! 10

12. Project Management Career Paths

14. Opportunities for Millennials to be Project Managers 14

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16. 16 Moore’s Law: is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years

17. The rate at which technology is getting faster is in fact getting faster….! 17

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29. Conflict? Cooperation?

32. Be Part of an Online Community 32

33. Try New Online and Open Source Tools! 33

34. 34 Importance of Emotional intelligence

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41. 3-Steps to Developing EQ

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43. Check your personality

44. Practice in a Fail safe environment

46. PMs Build Culture Policy (Organizational) Project Culture (project level) 46

48. 48 The Butterfly Effect in Practice

49. Butterfly Effect 49

52. Risk Management

56. Who remembers what is my IPMA Project?

58. Inspiration, practical advice and mentorship in times of youth unemployment..

59. 59 Be a Leader, not a Boss

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62. Be a Volunteer PM 62

64. Emotional Intelligence

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68. Company Perspective 68

69. 69 Tip # 6: Volunteering enabling a Sense of Service Leadership

70. Service Leadership 70 Lao-Tzu wrote about servant leadership in the fifth-century BC, he said: A servant leader is someone who is a servant 1 st Has a responsibility to the world and his team They contribute to the well-being of people and the community

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