1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
The Untapped World Of Leveraging On
Giants
Presented by Ibrahim Kaizen, PMP

2. Ibrahim Kaizen, Oladeji
An IT Consultant with over a decade of experience
leading teams and working on audacious projects.
A member of The John Maxwell Team
I am also a Project Management coach. I specialize
in helping people BLAST the Project Management
Professional (PMP) exam.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iboladeji/
https://PMtoGrandma.com/
MBA, M.Inf.Sci, PMP, CISA, COBIT5

3. Welcome to Kaizen Tribe
➔ We seek ways to enhance
productivity
➔ We are thirsty to boost
performance
➔ We love to continuously grow
and improve
➔ We are Kaizen

4. There is a
Problem
Most professionals are struggling to
keep up with the unprecedented
pace of change and uncertainty .
They are overwhelmed as the feeling
of being left behind can be
disturbing.
And they THINK there is no proper
structures to overcome this

5. Many
Professionals
wants to:
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● Improve their professionalism and
operate at a level of global best practices
● Gain respect and professional prides
among peers
● Improve conversational confidence with
other professionals
● Enhance their approaches to business
and proffer solutions to job challenges
● Doing the right things to improve
effectiveness and proficiency
● Speed up their career growth and
● Sought for managerial skills upgrade.

8. According to
Isaac Newton,
1675
“If I have seen
further, it is by
standing upon the
shoulders of
giants”
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9. This means, people
become geniuses
when they tap into
timeless wisdom and
leverage on existing
working frameworks.
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10. PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
THE WHAT

11. Skill Survey
By the end of this section, your audience
should be able to visualize:
➔ 316 skills from 111 people
➔ 117 is about Project
Management

12. ● People & Team Management
● Leadership
● Emotional Intelligence Skill
● Negotiation
● Resource Management
● Risk Management
● conflict Management
● Time Management
● Communication skills
● Decision Making
● Strategic thinking
● Coaching
● Collaboration
● Agile
● Quality Assurance (QA)
● Quality Control (QC)
● Critical thinking
● Focus & Dedication
● Interpersonal Skill
● Presentation Skill
● management skills
● Planning
● Motivational Skills
● Networking
● Effectiveness
● Execution Simplicity
● Listening
● Implementation
● Perseverance
● Personal Management Skills
● Personnel management

13. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs
Report outlines the top 10 business skills that
will be in highest demand in the new digital
and automated industrial age.
These are:
● Complex Problem Solving
● Critical Thinking
● Creativity
● People Management
● Coordinating with others
● Emotional Intelligence
● Judgement and Decision
Making
● Service Orientation
● Negotiation
● Cognitive Flexibility

15. PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
THE WHY

16. Welcome to the
world of Project
Management
Project Management gives you that
unique opportunity to INGEST the
wisdom of hundreds of thousands of
professionals across the world.
It also gives you FRAMEWORK of
international best practices to
EXCEL and make people see you as a
GENIUS.

17. Project
Management:
Why should I leverage on giants?
Project Management is a structured
way of getting things done.
It has established processes and
templates that have been tested and
agreed upon by professionals as the
standard way of doing things to
achieve optimal results.
And when you follow these
templates, you are already following
a guaranteed path that works and
not just what i called “where belle
face” approach.

18. When You
leverage on
giants
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● You are already capturing and using best
practices for your project
● It saves you time and resources since you
are not reinventing the wheel
● A realistic start and end dates for your
project would be set and realised
● It covers all the important and necessary
aspects of the project so that you do not
get to miss anything
● It accurately defines your scope and gives
you the optimal quality in your
deliverables
● It optimizes your process and
productivity.

19. What are the big professionals
keeping under the leaf?

21. Proactive behavior
involves acting in
advance of a future
situation, rather
than just reacting.
In organizational behavior and
industrial/organizational
psychology, proactivity or proactive
behavior by individuals refers to
anticipatory, change-oriented and
self-initiated behavior in situations.

23. Never manage a
big thing as a big
thing, always break
things down!
That was the source of his success.
He organized automobile
construction by breaking it into
tasks and training people to do the
same task over and over (correctly)
which was using people as
automatons but it resulted in
predictable results.
Jim Hastins (Quora)

25. Project
Management turns
you into a thinking
machine!
Critical thinking is the intellectually
disciplined process of actively and
skillfully conceptualizing, applying,
analyzing, synthesizing, and/or
evaluating information gathered
from, or generated by, observation,
experience, reflection, reasoning, or
communication, as a guide to belief
and action.
Criticalthinking.org

28. This is the level of detailed attention that stands a
project manager apart from the gut users. So rather than
use "where bele face" approach to planning and
managing projects, you can use an established set of
principles, tools and techniques.
A huge plus for this approach to managing projects is
that it is:
● Multifaceted
● Non-parochial
● Comprehensive
● Professional
● Critical-thinking based
● Attention-to-detail oriented

29. Do you think Project
Management can
benefit you too?