This informative and exciting new NCMA National Education Seminar (NES) is based upon a new book written by two highly respected, experienced, and successful business leaders: Gregory A. Garrett CPCM, C.P.M., PMP, and William C. Pursch, Ph.D., CPCM.
Please join us for a one day National Educational Seminar (NES) here in Austin on Friday, March 6, 2009 at Green Pastures.
Lone Star Chapter
National Education Seminar: Leadership
Lone Star Chapter
Please join us for a one day National Educational Seminar (NES) here in Austin on Friday, March 6, 2009 at Green Pastures.
Course Outline This seminar will allow each attendee the opportunity to do the following:
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Assess the senior leadership performance of your buying and/or selling organization(s);
Assess the senior leadership performance of your buying and/or selling organization(s); •Evaluate your individual buying and/or selling leadership competencies;
Evaluate your individual buying and/or selling leadership competencies; •Learn the Six-Steps-to-Success Leadership Process to improve buying and selling performance;
Learn the Six-Steps-to-Success Leadership Process to improve buying and selling performance; •Understand more than 100 best practices to improve your leadership skills and your buying and selling team results;
Understand more than 100 best practices to improve your leadership skills and your buying and selling team results; •Practice your listening, questioning, and coaching skills via interactive exercises;
Practice your listening, questioning, and coaching skills via interactive exercises; •Learn key insights of numerous successful buying and selling business leaders; and
Learn key insights of numerous successful buying and selling business leaders; and •Learn to benchmark your buying and/or selling processes via proven best practices contained within the Contract Management Maturity Model (CMMM©) and the Contract Management Maturity Assessment Tools.
Learn to benchmark your buying and/or selling processes via proven best practices contained within the Contract Management Maturity Model (CMMM©) and the Contract Management Maturity Assessment Tools.•Earn 7 Continuing Education Hours (CEU’s)
Earn 7 Continuing Education Hours (CEU’s)This highly interactive one-day seminar offers buying and selling business professionals from both the public and private business sectors the opportunity to improve their leadership skills.
Dr. Ralph M. Criss, CPCM
Senior Fellow
Fluor Government Group
Dr. Criss is a Senior Fellow with the Fluor Government Group, a Fluor Corporation. He has over 28 years of experience in government contracting in both the public and private sectors. Dr. Criss is a frequent presenter at NCMA events and NES’s. He is also a regular contributor to the Contract Management magazine. In addition to his professional responsibilities to the Fluor Corporation, Dr. Criss is an experience trainer and university instructor. He holds the CPCM, C.P.M. and CSI designations. He is also a member of the NCMA Board of Advisors
Areas of Competence: Contracting (solicitation, negotiation, award, administration), Finance, Economics and Accounting, Management and Leadership, Marketing and Sales (bids & proposals), Program Management, Property Management, Quality Management, Quantitative Techniques (business statistics), Transportation and Logistics.
About the Speaker:
About the Luncheon Featured Guest Speaker:
Chief Art Acevedo
Austin Police Department
Art Acevedo serves as the eighth Police Chief in the 84-year history of the Austin Police Department and is the first Hispanic to lead the City’s police force. With more than two decades of law enforcement experience, he oversees a department that employs approximately 2,000 sworn officers and civilian personnel and has been designated a national model “flagship agency” in its most recent review by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
Chief Acevedo began his professional career in law enforcement with the California Highway Patrol in 1986, bringing a well-established commitment to community outreach and coalition building to Austin. He strives to establish strong community relationships throughout the city with the goal of strengthening the relationship between the people of Austin and their Police Department. Chief Acevedo leads by example with a strong sense of community involvement through his own personal time and resources.
Date: March 6, 2009
Time: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Green Pastures Restaurant
RSVP by: Monday, March 2nd
Registration contact: Mr. William Cox
Member Cost: $125.00
Non-member Cost: $150.00
NES Seminar Registration Information:
Born in Havana, Cuba, Acevedo migrated to the United States with his family in 1968 in search of freedom and the opportunities to be found in America. He grew up in California, and earned his Bachelor of Science degree, with departmental honors, in Public Administration from the University of La Verne. He is married to Tanya and is the father of three children, Melissa, Matthew and Jake.
Appointed Austin Police Chief in July 2007, Chief Acevedo believes in the spirit of our community and the commitment to public safety from the men and women of APD. He looks forward to his new role strengthening a world-class police department for a world-class city.
