Cost:
Register Now: $965.00
After August 20th: $1,300.00

Introduction and Course Description
Managing multidisciplinary staff and coordinating field, laboratory, and computer analysis places unique demands on project managers for environmental and engineering projects . Despite meeting schedule and budget, you might often have felt pressure to get more from yourself and your team, and that you could have been more successful in developing client relationships to achieve better profit margins. But where can you turn for help in today's competitive market place?

We can help! We have designed a specific training course for environmental and engineering project managers that will enable you to learn - and practice - new project management skills designed to empower you and your team with a positive synergy and financial success & every time!

You'll gain a clear understanding of why the art of effective delegation is so important for project outcomes and team culture. You will learn the difference between simply assigning a task and providing a context of the work in the overall project strategy, providing the necessary material so that that the delegee can complete the task, and guidance as to what is expected and how it is to be presented and acheive the project objective - in the first attempt! And you'll discover how your individual leadership style and personality can influence the project outcome and ultimately, the profit margin.

This two-day course will improve your three-dimensional project management skills. The course covers how to:

Understand Yourself and Others:

	Learn and practice meaningful communication, motivation, delegation, and negotiation
	Understand how you, your team and your approach create positive or negative synergy
	Recognize how you can manage your greatest unknown variable  people  the asset that has the most potential for problems and solutions
	Differentiate yourself by gaining a new perspective on need-based project management
	Learn what it means to lead through experience, inspiration, or communication

Enhance Team Communication

	Build a culture that nurtures success and builds client relationships
	Develop teams that achieve technical and financial success, every time
	Learn the art of effective delegation
	Retain your staff and manage yourself when work overloading becomes common
	Incorporate your QA/QC process so it becomes part of the natural project procedures

Improve Your Project Performance

	Implement practical and powerful field and project management tools that make achieving the project s scope, schedule, and budget easy
	Differentiate risk from the perspective of the project manager vs. the company
	Design projects that are cognizant of your client s corporate culture
	Succeed by achieving new levels of personal, technical, and financial results

Today's environmental and engineering projects present unique challenges to the project manager, requiring coordination with many stakeholders and integration of various technological capabilities. In this course, you'll discover critical success factors and hidden risks inherent in all field-related projects and you'll gain an understanding of strategies and techniques developed by experienced field and project managers for successfully managing environmental and engineering projects.

Testimonials from our participants

	"Everything I learned in this class will be beneficial to me personally, my co-workers, my company, my clients and my projects. I highly recommend this course to any project manager. " ~ Karen Kajenke, Environmental Assessment & Remediation, Inc.
	"I gained new insights about project management and human interaction that I can apply immediately to all aspects of work. I recommend this course for anyone involved in project work - large or small, project managers today or in the future. " ~ Dan Weber, P.G., Errol L. Montgomery & Associates, Inc.
	"The course was an incredible experience. It was the best professional training course I have ever attended. If I am able to apply half of the knowledge that was presented in the course, my effectiveness in communication skills will grow exponentially, I will double my production, and manage all confrontational situations. I highly recommend this (course) to everyone, in any profession, at any level of responsibility. The course provides critical tools for managing a high performing team, while providing insight to manage your own personal life from a position of strength and self-control. " ~ Matthew Damos, Sonoma County Water District
	" (The most valuable portion of the course to me was learning) the common sense approach to accountability problems and systems of delegation. I will put both of these to use immediately. " ~ Paul White, Brickhouse Environmental
	" The communication tools apply to all fields and make project tasks easier." ~ Rachael Berthiame, V3 Consultants
	" Everything the instructors presented was very valuable. I am absolutely ready to implement these (new skills) into practice. I strongly recommend this course! Keep up the good work!" ~ Prasad Shetty, ERM, Inc.
	" This course provides the ability and confidence to create and lead a high performance team. Clients benefit most when their consultants are performing at a higher level of achievement." ~ Phil Doyle, Groundwater and Environmental Services, Inc.
	" I enjoyed the teamwork exercises and look forward to using them at work and on projects." ~ Al Yates, Brickhouse Environmental Instructors:    Bill Truby M.A. MFCC   is a psychology-trained consultant, speaker, author and educator whose focus is on improving the quality of human fulfillment and performance in organizations. His clients include architectural, engineering and related design professional firms. Bill's work includes consulting for goal setting, team building, strategic planning, management transition; and training in leadership, communications, sales, delegation, motivation, and other organizational skills. Truby is a popular speaker and workshop leader for the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Professional Services Management Association, the American Society of Association Executives, among many more.    Joann Truby  is an experienced consultant, speaker, author, trainer, facilitator, and leadership coach. She has been a consultant to scores of businesses helping them be successful. Her energetic speaking and training sessions not only provide the attendees with meaningful, practical and usable information, she also motivates people to do what she is teaching.    Dan Kelleher, P.G.  is a hydrogeologist and an experienced project manager at Earth Tech, Inc. Dan s expertise is managing projects with multi-faceted computer, field, and lab components. Dan brings an in-field analysis approach for coorelating geologic data and team collaboration where QA/QC is built in to the project from beginning to end. As a result of this approach, Dan s projects excel when unanticipated conditions arise.    Continuing Education Information    1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) (16.0 Professional Development Hours)    Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and a Course Completion Certificate will be administered by Northern Illinois University    Applicable for most state environmental and engineering licensure programs such as PG and PE. Registration: Advance registration is necessary in this limited-enrollment workshop to reserve space and receive course materials. A confirmation letter will be sent within 10 days of registering for the course. Registration is accepted on a first come, first served basis. A minimum of 25 people must be registered by August 20th to conduct this course. Midwest GeoSciences Group is not responsible for registrant's airfare, hotel, rental car reservations or other expenses. Special arrangements for diet, equipment, or handicap facilities should be indicated when registering for the course. Complete course details and a registration form is available on-line at midwestgeo.com What you will receive: You will receive 16.0 contact hours of instruction, a course book, CEU completion certificate showing 16.0 Contact Hours. This course also includes continental breakfast, morning coffee break, lunch, and an afternoon break on both days. Recording devices are not permitted during classroom sessions.  Cancellations: Cancellations may be made up to two weeks before the course, however, 25 percent of the course fee will be charged. Cancellations made after two weeks before the course will be charged $300. No refunds. One substitute is allowed for each registrant who is unable to attend. Who should attend: This course is designed for scientists and engineers who manage environmental and engineering projects.

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