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Interest-Based Negotiation and Learning from the Mafia Combined Event

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Event Details

Our September session is a special one. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a 'combined' lecture where two speakers will present to us. 'Interest-Based Negotiation for Better Results' and 'Learn from the Mafia: The Management Secrets of the 'Honorable' Society' are the titles of the topics that will be shared with all participants of our 'special' September lecture.

If you have registered and confirmed your registration for the August lecture, you don't need to register again for September. You're welcome to participate with us at the hotel or virtually at no additional charge. You will earn '4 PDUs', will listen to two excellent speakers, and you'll get to enjoy our excellent hotel food.

If you have not registered for our August lecture, but you're interested to attend our September session, please register and enjoy the special benefits of earning 4 PDUs.

Session One: Interest-Based Negotiations for Better Results and Better Relationships

In many ways, the life of a Project Manager is negotiation.  The world can seem an endless stream of trade-offs and compromises, and it’s easy to fall into a jaded world of winners and losers. In this session, the speaker will walk you through the concept of “interest-based” negotiations as outlined in the best seller 'Getting to Yes'.  You’ll learn the concept, understand how it can benefit current and future relations and techniques to help get you there using a real-world scenario.

Session Two: Learn from the Mafia: The Management Secrets of the 'Honorable' Society

For hundreds of years, The Italian mafia is a very successful business organization. During this session, we talk about their unbeatable leadership principles and learn the rules for “simple employees” to middle management and top management and how we can apply them as project managers. Our speaker will share a discussion of the principles and how we translate them into recommendations for us as PMs. Some examples:

  1. Don’t end up the back of a car: For PMs it means don’t get involved in office politics.
  2. The toughest guys often have “sift skin: For PMs it means don’t get blame anyone in public.
  3. A victory without plan B is like pasta without desert: For PMs it means crisis management.

Someone who has diplomatic skills, can lead and motivate people will be successful in any domain – as a business leader, as a politician, as member of the mafia and project manager. During the meeting we will run a quiz with 5 questions being asked with the right answer being awarded one of five different prizes valued at a total of 8,000 THB.

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Speaker Profile

First Speaker (Interest-Based Negotiations)

A PMP since 2004, Clay Springer regularly speaks and consults in the areas Project Leadership and Interpersonal Skills. A noted strategic consultant in the Aviation Industry, he currently serves as Senior Partner and Chief Commercial Officer with Pro Verne Solutions to provide modern technology to airlines around the world.  Holding degrees in Political and Social Sciences, Clay was an early evangelist for the concept of Project Manager as Project Leader and the power of  a deeply collaborative approach. From the State of Hawaii in the United States, Clay enjoys supporting the growth of Project Management and technology in Thailand and throughout the ASEAN region.

Second Speaker (Learning from the Mafia)

Klaus Rappolt is leading the Engagement Management (project & program management) practice for the Capgemini Financial Services Global Business Unit in the APAC region, based in Hong Kong. Klaus has extensive experience with large scale / complex / multi site / multi country projects and programs as well as all aspects of SAP/systems implementations / ”rollouts”.

Klaus fulfilled various roles including Program Management & Project Management, Solution Architecture & System Integration and  Functional Consulting. Klaus also worked  in various PMO environments. He gained his experience across various sectors, including: Financial Services, Real Estate, Media, Chemical, Pharma, Construction, Services and Manufacturing. In the past, he worked with KPMG Management Consulting  & Price Waterhouse Coopers Management Consulting in Germany and KPMG Management Consulting  & Capgemini Technology Consulting in Australia.

He has studied Executive MBA (Mo T and IB) from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand.  He is a certified PMP (Sep-2005) and member of PMI and PMI Thailand Chapter since June 2000.

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