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Pushing the limits – being outside of your comfort zone

Every organization needs to differentiate itself in some way to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. This requires its people to push and continue to push limits in terms of thinking, idea development and realization. The top organizations are continually encouraging their teams to push limits in their thinking in order to achieve breakthroughs. Is pushing the limits only reserved for research and development teams, organizational design teams and consultants or can this philosophy be applied to the community of PMOs?

Can pushing the limits of your understanding of PMOs double the impact they are currently having in your organization? What does it mean in terms of working outside your typical comfort zone and what are the implications for you and your PMO teams?

Find out more about how to build an environment that encourages pushing the limits and the implications on learning and discovery?

What will the delegate take away from this session

• Understanding the difference of being inside and outside one's comfort zones and its relatioship to impact
• Determining how to create increasing impact that requires being continually outside of one’s comfort zone
• Examples of PMO experts working outside of their comfort zones to impact the PMO community.

We look forward to seeing you at the event.

About your Speaker: Dr Robert Joslin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-robert-joslin/)

Robert Joslin PhD, IPMO-M, IPMO-E, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CEng, MIEEE, MBCS, is a professor and head of the research advisory board at SBS Swiss Business School and the founder of AIPMO (Association of International Project Management Officers.

Robert has considerable experience in designing, initiating and project/program management delivery of large-scale business transformation, reengineering, infrastructure, strategy development including winning prizes for ideas and product innovation. Robert presents at conferences, publishes books, book chapters and research papers including winning the best research paper award at EURAM 2017. Robert is in the process of architecting and co-authoring AIPMO’s Body of Knowledge which comprises of several books in the area of PMOs and related topics. Previously, he has been a consultant in a wide range of industries including telecom, banking, insurance, manufacturing, government whilst working for McKinsey & Co, Logica and for his own consulting and product development companies.