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December Skyline Luncheon - Jeff Allman - "Getting What You Ask For"

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Event Date: 
Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 07:15

Getting What You Ask For: Setting Expectations

featuring

Jeff Allman, PMP

Next Skyline Luncheon Brown Bag

December 18, 2008 from 12:15pm to 1:30pm
(Networking 12:00pm-12:15pm and 1pm – 1:30pm, Presentation 12:15pm to 1pm) 

Location and Cost

Skyline Bailey's Crossroads luncheons are free to attend, and preregistration is not required.
Skyline Office Complex
5109 Leesburg Pike, Suite 800,
Falls Church, VA 22041

About the Program

Getting What You Ask For: Setting Expectations

Much has been said about the importance of aiming before you shoot. When managing people or projects, setting the proper targets is absolutely crucial. This presentation will touch on the value of and the some ideas for clearly setting expectations for your team members, along with the benefits of focusing on outcomes and not dictating every step of the means.

About the Speaker

Jeff Allman is a certified Project Management Professional whose project management experience includes data management and analysis, scheduling and project planning in information technology for the DoD Tricare Medical Activity and a Fortune 5 manufacturing company. He is currently a contractor for the Defense Health Information Management System program office, working on the Resource Management team.

About Skyline Luncheons

  • All Skyline luncheons are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month. They begin at 11:30am with a 30 minute unstructured networking session. At Noon, after a short introduction and after we’ve dealt with some administrative matters, the presentation begins. The luncheons end promptly at 1pm.
  • Join our Yahoo Group by sending an email with your name, and organization to: SkylineLuncheonPMIWDC-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. On our list we provide copies of past presentations, directions to our lunch location in Baileys Crossroads, and two email reminders per month.
  • Our Yahoo Group SkylineLuncheonPMIWDC@yahoogroups.com is an announcement-only type list not used for general email. So you will only receive a limited amount of email and only from the Skyline Baileys Crossroads Lunch meeting moderator, Charles Hermann.
  • For more information about the Skyline Lunch meeting send an email with your question to SkylineLuncheonPMIWDC-owner@yahoogroups.com

Directions and Map Link

Skyline Office Complex
5109 Leesburg Pike, Suite 800,
Falls Church, VA 22041

NOTE: Virginia Route 7 is Leesburg Pike (in Falls Church and Fairfax County) and is also King Street (in Alexandria) at different stretches.

Directions to 5109 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041-3215

From Tyson's Corner:

  1. Take Route 7, Leesburg Pike, for about 7 miles and turn right onto South George Mason Drive (just after the entrance to the Target parking lot).
  2. Make a right at the second intersection, or parking lot entrance, and drive up a ramp alongside the building. Turn right at the 4-way Stop sign. Pay visitor parking is on the other side of the building at that intersection.
  3. Walk across the courtyard to the left end of the set of offices (building 5109, also known as Skyline 6). Take the elevator to the 8th floor.

From Washington DC or National Airport:

  1. Take I-395 South towards Richmond.
  2. After the Glebe Road and Quaker Lane exits, take Exit 5 for Route 7, King Street, West. You will go through 10 traffic lights that are very close together.
  3. Turn left onto South George Mason Drive. Skyline Tower is the 26-story light blue glass building.
  4. Make a right at the second intersection, or parking lot entrance, and drive up a ramp alongside the building. Turn right at the 4-way Stop sign. Pay visitor parking is on the other side of the building at that intersection.
  5. Walk across the courtyard to the left end of the set of offices (building 5109, also known as Skyline 6). Take the elevator to the 8th floor.

From Dulles Airport:

  1. Take the Washington Dulles Access Road towards Washington.
    Take 495 South towards Richmond
  2. After passing exits for Tyson’s Corner, I-66, Route 50, Braddock Road and I-95 South, take I-395 North (left exit) towards Washington.
  3. Take Exit 5, King Street, West. You will go through 10 traffic lights that are very close together.
  4. Turn left onto South George Mason Drive. Skyline Tower is the 26-story light blue glass building.
  5. Make a right at the second intersection, or parking lot entrance, and drive up a ramp alongside the building. Turn right at the 4-way Stop sign.
  6. Pay visitor parking is on the other side of the building at that intersection.
    Walk across the courtyard to the left end of the set of offices (building 5109, also known as Skyline 6). Take the elevator to the 8th floor.
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