Launch!  A Training Collaboration in Project and Organizational Performance Management

(Please note that this will be a DINNER meeting.  Please also note NEW location.)

Date:  Monday, October 16, 2006
Time:  6:00pm to 8:00pm
Place:  Harmony Public Library Community Room, Southeast corner of Shields Street and Harmony Road (on the Front Range Community College campus), Fort Collins
Presenters:  Richard Pennington and Dr. Dan Price

About the Presentation: 

Dan and Richard realized within the last year that project management and organizational performance management go hand-in-hand.  This led to a unique collaboration: developing and hosting a seminar, "Launch! Toward On-Target Performance -- Practical Personal, Project, and Organizational Improvement." This presentation will use Dan and Richard’s aviation backgrounds to link together the history and challenges in the collaboration:

• how they functioned as a team even though they were miles apart
• the special marketing challenges and how they met them
• the joint development of a seminar agenda that accommodated both of their interests
• how their relative strengths were leveraged in the course development
• deciding how to split the presentation topics and manage time
• their use of humor and other techniques
• what they gave participants and why
• assessment challenges
• what they will do different in the future

Enroute (an aviation term!) to learning about the collaborative course development you will be exposed to the essential elements of project and organizational performance management – in a fun way!

About the Presenters:

Richard Pennington is the principal of SCOPEVision Consulting Ltd. SCOPEVision® is an organizational improvement model that emphasizes imagery and simplicity in teaching organizational performance.  Richard is a practicing attorney and the former director of the Division of Finance and Procurement, Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration.  Richard is a retired Air Force Colonel who started his Air Force career flying B-52s and ended it as a judge advocate specializing in public procurement.  Richard graduated from the Air Force Academy, the University of Denver College Of Law, and the George Washington University (Master of Laws). He has conducted seminars, presentations, and taught college courses in organizational performance management, negotiation, procurement, legal issues in project management, and intellectual property.   He is a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) and Certified Public Procurement Official (CPPO).  In 2005, Richard was selected by the Colorado State Managers Association as the Manager of the Year.

Dan Price is the President of Winning Ways Management Inc. and has nearly 30 years of experience in business, government, and higher education management and leadership.  Dr. Price was the Managing Consultant and Senior Compliance Analyst for the MCI Year 2000 Project Management Office.  He served as a Director of Business Development & Chief Operating Officer (COO), of another company. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, from the University of South Dakota, and from Colorado Technical University with a Doctorate in Management.  He is a certified project manager, or called Project Management Professional (PMP), via the Project Management Institute. He taught Project Management as an adjunct professor at Colorado Technical University and is currently on the faculty of PM College.  Dr. Price just published a new project management book called Takeoff.  He is writing several more books on project management.