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Listening to the unstated : why it is critical for project managers to look beyond the obvious

The difference between a good project manager and a not so good one is the ability to look at the space between the obvious RAG rules and status and interpret what is really going on. It can be called intuition, instinct, a gut feeling, a hunch, a sixth sense, proactive foresight, or anticipatory futures literacy.

This active workshop will introduce PMI Sydney members and guests to a number of approaches that come from Anticipatory Futures Research. Tools and mindsets that can be used to increase your personal level of anticipation and responsiveness in projects as well as tools that generate participatory and collective input. There will be an opportunity for participants to share their own approaches to ‘looking beyond the obvious’ and how this can be applied to bringing richer project status intelligence and better value to the business and the community.

Your presenter: Elissa Farrow  https://www.linkedin.com/in/efarrow/

Elissa Farrow from About Your Transition is a dynamic facilitator, keynote speaker, and coach. She has extensive experience in organizational strategy design, creation, and adaptation. Elissa is passionate about keeping human agency at the centre of organizational adaptation considerations. She has led and supported organization, leaders, and teams to successfully deliver change that has brought lasting benefit in a range of industries including transport, government, resources, construction, technology, legal and community services. Elissa has held global and national board roles including the Global Development Lead for the Change Management Institute, the Director of Ethics for the International Institute of Project Coaching and the Chair of DVConnect an organization supporting people to be free from domestic and family violence.

Elissa is currently exploring the implications on organizational adaptation as a result of Artificial Intelligence Futures as part of doctoral research with the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is Master’s qualified in social science, policy and planning fields and has a number of other project, program, portfolio, benefits and change management Association of Professional Futurists as well as a former award winner with the Project Management Institute award for her ‘Contribution to Women in Project Management’. For fun, Elissa has a growing selection of popular youtube clips, articles and blogs on various change and  delivery topics via www.aboutyourtransition.com.au