PMI Houston North: "Every Day Feels Like Friday! No More Employee Burnout "

Pre-Dinner Presentation: "How to Carry Conversations to Resolve and Avoid Headaches That Keep You Up At Night"

Kate Shi ,CLC, PMP
With 30+ years’ engineering experience, Kate has always been a leader whether it was in engineering or in project management. Her unique background, through self-development after trials and errors, made her able to build high performing teams. Despite being a good planner, in all the processes of project management, her favorite part is the Execution, which requires more hands-on experience than concepts. With the success of leading the organizations’ challenging projects one after another, Kate became more aware of the importance of training project leaders, managers. She summarized all her experiences of over 30 years, and now uses them to support future project leaders and organization leaders through training, coaching and mentoring. She is now a well trained and experienced professional life coach, passionate about contributing to others’ lives in her endeavor as a trainer, a facilitator, a mentor and a coach.

Topic Synopsis:

While 90% of a project manager’s job is communication, when things are not sitting right with you, you lose peace of mind, all the headaches may take your mental space, you may also lose your emotional stasis. How do you set the tone of your conversations with whoever is involved?  How to prevent the conversations from going downhill, despite the tricks and triggers? How to stop it if things are already running downhill? Better yet, how to turn things around, making the conversation go the direction that you wanted?

Come to join me at this workshop, you will learn how to carry conversations to resolve and avoid headaches.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you set the tone of your conversations with whoever is involved?
2. How to prevent the conversations from going downhill, despite the tricks and triggers?
3. How to stop it if things are already running downhill?
4. Better yet, how to turn things around, making the conversation go the direction that you wanted?

PDU Triangle:

1 Power Skills PDU

Dinner Presentation: "Every Day Feels Like Friday! No More Employee Burnout"

*Please note that our Dinner Presentation has Changed*

Julia C. Rock is an employment expert and career coach who is passionate about transforming workplace dynamics to create collective success between organizations and their employees. She has coached and empowered 1000+ employees to build meaningful careers. She has been featured in several major publications and platforms, including: Fortune, BusinessInsider, and xoNecole.

Julia is also a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Certified Employment Interview Professional(CEIP). She is also a published Author, co-authoring two books focused on helping athletes achieve career greatness after sports: The Six-Figure Athlete, and Athlete to Entrepreneur Vol II. 

When she is not working, Julia enjoys exercise, traveling, writing, and adding to her ever-growing sneaker collection.

Topic Synopsis:

As we emerge from the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of workplace stress, burnout, and disengagement among employees has reached alarming levels.  A 2022 Gallup study has found that 60% of the world’s workers are emotionally detached at work. 

This session is designed to equip project management leaders with the tools to demonstrate heightened empathy, re-engage and inspire their teams, and cultivate workplace environments that ignite passion rather than burnout.

Learning Objectives:

1.  How to identify key signs of burnout and detachment in both employees and leaders
2.  How to build rapport and trust with employees and create safe spaces to voice challenges impacting productivity
3.  How to leverage 3 key concepts to transform their workplace culture: Empathize, Empower, Execute

PDU Triangle:

1 Power Skills PDU

Meeting Agenda:

5:00 pm to 5:30 pm    Networking & Registration
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm    Pre-dinner Speaker Presentation
6:30 pm to 7:00 pm    Networking, Dinner Opens, Chapter Announcements
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm    Dinner Speaker Presentation