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Seminar presented in Kiev, Ukraine
Flannes & Associates (Steve Flannes and Larry Butler) presented a two day seminar to 55 project managers in Kiev on September 19th and September 20th. The seminar was sponsored by Spider Management Technologies (www.spiderproject.ru), a major project management consulting firm operating in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and other parts of Eastern Europe.
Larry Butler presenting on the second day of the Kiev Seminar
The seminar addressed the interpersonal aspects of project management, and was one of the first seminars for many of the attendees on this people side of project management. Experienced translator Ms. Masha Klavdieva from Moscow provided a running translation during the seminar, translating into Russian. Dr.Flannes’ first book, People Skills for Project Managers, which had previously been translated into Russian, was made available for the attendees.
Each day, before the start of the seminar, Dr. Flannes and Mr. Butler were the subjects of press conferences, in which writers for Ukrainian newspapers as well as Ukrainian business magazines asked a wide range of questions. Many of the questions focused on how best to resolve conflict in ways that preserve team unity while also encouraging an open expression of different points of view.
Masha Klavdieva, Russian translator from Moscow, and Steve Flannes
Other questions addressed the perceived challenges faced by a Ukrainian business community that is growing rapidly, and how best to integrate within such rapid expansion business best practices coming from the West.
Interestingly, other questions and comments addressed the subject of the dramatic mindset shift from the remnants of a Soviet economy to an economy that is becoming much more entrepreneurial and market driven.
"People Skills" book to appear in Southview Executive Book Summaries
Dr. Flannes’ book, "Essential People Skills for Project Managers", will be excerpted in "Soundview Executive Book Summaries" (www.summary.com). Soundview provides a synopsis of key business books to its current list of 40,000 global subscribers. Each year, Soundview excerpts 30 business books, such as Jack Welch’s "Winning" and Jim Collins’ "Good to Great".
Dr. Flannes' second book will be translated and published in Japanese
Myra Strauss, Editorial Director of the publisher Management Concepts, Inc. (www.managementconcepts.com) has announced that a deal has been struck for the translation and publication into Japanese of his book "Essential People Skills for Project Managers" (2005). Publication in Japan should occur in 2008. Dr. Flannes’ original book on the subject of people skills was translated and published in Russian in 2004.
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