Sandra is the founder of this SVProjectmanagement.com blog, the first University Extension blog. She is now the Principal of Silicon Valley Training Connect (www.svtrainingconnect.com.) Sandra is an experienced professional for program sales and marketing in continuing education and most recently worked as the Director of Communications promoting UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley. She specialized for many years in offering on-site training to Silicon Valley companies. Her background also includes an extensive range of marketing, and general management expertise. Working as an leader, team builder and change manager, Sandra works with fast growth entrepreneurial and Fortune 100 companies, both in national and international markets as well as both technology and bioscience companies. Sandra is an entrepreneur who identifies opportunities to promote and market new ideas and programs. You can contact her at sandra@svtraininngconnect.com. Sandra Clark
Sandra is the founder of this SVProjectmanagement.com blog, the first University Extension blog. She is now the Principal of Silicon Valley Training Connect (www.svtrainingconnect.com.) Sandra is an experienced professional for program sales and marketing in continuing education and most recently worked as the Director of Communications promoting UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley. She specialized for many years in offering on-site training to Silicon Valley companies. Her background also includes an extensive range of marketing, and general management expertise. Working as an leader, team builder and change manager, Sandra works with fast growth entrepreneurial and Fortune 100 companies, both in national and international markets as well as both technology and bioscience companies. Sandra is an entrepreneur who identifies opportunities to promote and market new ideas and programs. You can contact her at sandra@svtraininngconnect.com. Whenever Possible Have Great People Resources and You Can Deliver the Impossible
Cisco was a client we wanted to work with. I’d gone with my project management course coordinator, Kimberly Wiefling, to meet with the leaders of Cisco’s project management educational initiatives to explore options of what training we had that they might want and that that they’d want us to do. Every training organization wanted to [...]
Whenever Possible, Partner with People you Trust
I’ve been involved with NOVA (one of the best One-Stop Workforce Development agencies in the country) for the past 14 years. I served on their CONNECT! Stakeholders’ committee and had worked with them on several grant-funded programs over the years. My regard for the organization and staff was to the point that if they called [...]
Whenever Possible, Partner with People who are Inspirational
Five years ago I was working as often as I could with Kimberly Wiefling. She was my instructor of choice for teaching my on-site project management training classes. I loved working with her and periodically we would plot about some project we could work on together that would take UCSC Extension to even higher levels [...]
PM Classes ROI – Executive Summary and Reporting
We’re asking that every 6 months (too long/too short?) that the students in the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s (SCVWD) Project and Program Management Certificate program do a short (half-page?) report on lessons learned to date. During that time most of them should have completed 1-3 classes (30-75 hours of training.) Since the time taken [...]
PM Classes ROI – Measuring
The classes in the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s (SCVWD) program this year (it varies slightly from year to year) are Role of the Project Manager, Scheduling Optimization Techniques for Managers, Project Integration & Risk Management, Creating the Successful Project Team, Project Management Negotiation Principles & Techniques, Project Leadership & Communication, and the capstone course [...]
PM Classes ROI – Getting Started
I’ve occasionally been involved with trying to collect ROI data for classes UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley has offered. It’s challenging and unless a company is really prepared to spend some money and time on doing the collection and analysis (and involving HR and confidentiality when you start talking about rating people’s skills) ROI usually [...]
Haikus from Cisco
UCSC Extension did an onsite class in Creative Thinking at Cisco last month. I thought you might resonate with the results. And yes, I do know that some of them don’t strictly follow haiku rules! Cisco project team Talented, Creative people As always, Snafu Project done, boss says That is exactly what I asked for But [...]
