Michael Nir, President Sapir Consulting US

Michael Nir, President Sapir Consulting US

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  • Construindo Times Eficazes (Building Highly Effective Teams)

    Brasport

    UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS!
    Allan Rocha, Ricardo Vargas and Michael Nir are bringing to Brazil the best seller that will teach you how to transform a group of people in a high performance team.
    The book presents, among other things, the 9 duties of high-performance teams:

    1. Goals and clear plans
    2. Effective communication
    3. Positive relationships among members
    4. Clear roles and responsibilities
    5. Mutual trust
    6. Effective decision…

    UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS!
    Allan Rocha, Ricardo Vargas and Michael Nir are bringing to Brazil the best seller that will teach you how to transform a group of people in a high performance team.
    The book presents, among other things, the 9 duties of high-performance teams:

    1. Goals and clear plans
    2. Effective communication
    3. Positive relationships among members
    4. Clear roles and responsibilities
    5. Mutual trust
    6. Effective decision making
    7. Development and Promotion of the Diversity
    8. Successful Conflict Management
    9. Recognition of the work and development of opportunities

    Other authors
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  • Construindo Times Eficazes (Building Highly Effective Teams)

    Brasport

    UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS!
    Allan Rocha, Ricardo Vargas and Michael Nir are bringing to Brazil the best seller that will teach you how to transform a group of people in a high performance team.
    The book presents, among other things, the 9 duties of high-performance teams:

    1. Goals and clear plans
    2. Effective communication
    3. Positive relationships among members
    4. Clear roles and responsibilities
    5. Mutual trust
    6. Effective decision…

    UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS!
    Allan Rocha, Ricardo Vargas and Michael Nir are bringing to Brazil the best seller that will teach you how to transform a group of people in a high performance team.
    The book presents, among other things, the 9 duties of high-performance teams:

    1. Goals and clear plans
    2. Effective communication
    3. Positive relationships among members
    4. Clear roles and responsibilities
    5. Mutual trust
    6. Effective decision making
    7. Development and Promotion of the Diversity
    8. Successful Conflict Management
    9. Recognition of the work and development of opportunities

    Other authors
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  • Building Highly Effective Teams

    Brasport

    UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS!
    Allan Rocha, Ricardo Vargas and Michael Nir are bringing to Brazil the best seller that will teach you how to transform a group of people in a high performance team.
    The book presents, among other things, the 9 duties of high-performance teams:

    1. Goals and clear plans
    2. Effective communication
    3. Positive relationships among members
    4. Clear roles and responsibilities
    5. Mutual trust
    6. Effective decision…

    UNDERSTAND THE SECRETS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS!
    Allan Rocha, Ricardo Vargas and Michael Nir are bringing to Brazil the best seller that will teach you how to transform a group of people in a high performance team.
    The book presents, among other things, the 9 duties of high-performance teams:

    1. Goals and clear plans
    2. Effective communication
    3. Positive relationships among members
    4. Clear roles and responsibilities
    5. Mutual trust
    6. Effective decision making
    7. Development and Promotion of the Diversity
    8. Successful Conflict Management
    9. Recognition of the work and development of opportunities

    Other authors
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  • Agile Revolution

    Agile Project Management - Achieve more - Practical Advice - Agile Revolution


    It is impossible to overstate the severe set of the challenges caused by the overly administrative linear development approach and specifically the waterfall methodology.

    From:
    Agile Project Management : Agile Revolution

    Waterfall methodology is part of the Linear, scope driven life cycles family of approaches. As it is the manifestation of the command and control organization, it is highly…

    Agile Project Management - Achieve more - Practical Advice - Agile Revolution


    It is impossible to overstate the severe set of the challenges caused by the overly administrative linear development approach and specifically the waterfall methodology.

    From:
    Agile Project Management : Agile Revolution

    Waterfall methodology is part of the Linear, scope driven life cycles family of approaches. As it is the manifestation of the command and control organization, it is highly prescriptive. Almost all organizations using the methodology have a similar set pf processes, mostly based on the PMBOK® (more on that later).
    Agile is an approach for managing software product development according to the guidelines set in the Agile manifesto. There are several methods and processes for implementing the Agile approach.

    ..It is 2014 I think to myself, and still businesses believe that having a 110 page project delivery methodology is a prudent approach to plan engineering customer facing projects and products. Failure is written all over the pretty waterfall deployment approach and the numerous templates, work instructions, procedures, processes, decrees and change approval committees.
    When I did introduce Agile concepts, I wasn’t surprised that most didn’t recognize the term. Indeed, while the software industry has been undergoing a paradigm shift; other industries’ projects managers and the respective project community, have been ignorant of the benefits imbedded in Agile approaches.....



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  • Influence and Leadership Building Rapport in Teams, A practical Guide

    Michael Nir

    ***Great influence guide - Amazon Best Seller - Updated Edition***

    Simple -Project Management: Influence and Leadership includes 3 Proven Fundamentals to unlock the secrets of Leadership, Influence and Stakeholder communication management!

    ***Updated and Advanced Edition***
    Imagine that you master the magic of influence and are able to successfully lead and manage stakeholders. Imagine that you have a clear path of how to accomplish it.
    I have some good news and some bad…

    ***Great influence guide - Amazon Best Seller - Updated Edition***

    Simple -Project Management: Influence and Leadership includes 3 Proven Fundamentals to unlock the secrets of Leadership, Influence and Stakeholder communication management!

    ***Updated and Advanced Edition***
    Imagine that you master the magic of influence and are able to successfully lead and manage stakeholders. Imagine that you have a clear path of how to accomplish it.
    I have some good news and some bad news: The good news is that with the 3 proven fundamentals in this practical book you can quickly learn how to influence without authority.
    The bad news is that you have missed many opportunities by not reading this book so far.
    * After you read Project Management: Influence and Leadership you will easily manage and lead stakeholders.
    I apologize to you, as only now have I had the time to put all this knowledge in writing, don't waste anymore time - read it now!
    * With the knowledge in Project Management: Influence and Leadership at your disposal, you will possess the secret formula that eludes so many others - the recipe to unveiling the mystery of Leadership and INFLUENCE WITHOUT AUTHORITY
    * Distilled by the author in Project Management: Influence and Leadership and unearthed on its digital pages are the proven steps for your success. A quick read with promising results - terrific value.

    Everyone has to work with stakeholders

    * Absolutely relevant situational leadership models which contain valuable Scientifically-Proven, tested approaches to leadership - by this book - you will learn a lot!
    * After you start using the various techniques given by me, you will be amazed at the quick change to your leadership style and ability to influence in a wide range of situations!

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  • The Agile PMO - Leading the Effective, Value Driven, Project Management Office

    Michael Nir

    Powerful Advice - An Amazon Bestseller

    The Revealed Secrets of the Shocking Truths about Global PMO Colossal Failures and how to Work around them.

    ** Uncovered Truths How to avoid a tactical PMO - in which MBA graduates fill the role of secretaries - I know you are asking now - how can it be possible that companies pay 100K $ salaries for administrative work, aren't you? - Read the book and know the answer
    ** What are the signs of a process obsessed PMO - in which the project…

    Powerful Advice - An Amazon Bestseller

    The Revealed Secrets of the Shocking Truths about Global PMO Colossal Failures and how to Work around them.

    ** Uncovered Truths How to avoid a tactical PMO - in which MBA graduates fill the role of secretaries - I know you are asking now - how can it be possible that companies pay 100K $ salaries for administrative work, aren't you? - Read the book and know the answer
    ** What are the signs of a process obsessed PMO - in which the project managers are cringing under the whip of the PMO and how to set them free!
    ** Limited Vision When the PMO is in love with the lavish tools - and promotes death by SharePoint - what do you do?
    ** The Ultimate Program Life Cycle inflicting PMO - do you know how to recognize it and provide REAL VALUE

    Best business: The Agile PMO provides answers NOW to all these challenging questions. You will learn to recognize and avoid the PMO traps
    Research has proven that most PMOs will be disbanded and flushed away in two years after rollout - make sure yours doesn't
    ** Join me in this journey to making your emerging PMO not only endure but also lead project and portfolio growth and be value driven:
    ** The PMO is a mediating function it enables visibility where there is none, unity where there is disparity, transparency where there is ambiguity, and global breakthrough where there is only local analysis.
    ** Over the years I have seen too many PMOs blunder and fail due to various misconceptions in the roll out and implementation. The main cause is that PMOs do not learn how to create true and substantial value for stakeholders from the portfolio perspective, and hence lose budgeting and are terminated
    ** in this proven guide I will provide practical guidelines with the assistance of a case study on how to create and increase value of a PMO in an ever changing environment.
    ** Ultimately, after reading this guide you'll know what to do, in order to successfully and reliably lead your Agile PMO.

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  • Building Highly Effective Teams How to Transform Teams into Exceptionally Cohesive Professional Networks - a practical guide

    Smart Concise Empowering - An Amazon Bestseller

    ** Leadership: building highly effective teams is a breakthrough practical guide to creating more powerful teams! Updated advanced edition **

    The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial…

    Smart Concise Empowering - An Amazon Bestseller

    ** Leadership: building highly effective teams is a breakthrough practical guide to creating more powerful teams! Updated advanced edition **

    The ongoing challenges of creating the magical bond between team members in small and big endeavors can be elusive. What more, in the last few decades it has become increasingly challenging, since we have been moving from emphasis on social skills and communities to technical and managerial skills, as a result the lore concerning the magic of teams has been lost.
    Leadership: building highly effective teams, provides you with the much needed practical advice on how to create an effective collaborative team environment.

    You will learn to:
    ** Identify the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of leading virtual teams
    ** Define key strategies for leading effective virtual teams
    ** Recognize what virtual team members need and expect from virtual team leaders
    ** Employ key techniques to build trust;
    ** Effectively apply technologies for working on a virtual team.

    Praise for
    Leadership: building highly effective
    teams


    I am researching virtual team performance since 2008 and Michael's book is an excellent quick start guide for any leader of a virtual team. Using story-telling methodology and just giving the right amount of theoretical information blended with hands-on advice makes this guide easy to read. The transfer of the wisdom of the book on real virtual teamwork is possible. A must read for every member of a virtual team.

    Ralf Friedrich, President, Coaching Center Dieburg, GeProS

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  • Silent Influencing - Employing Powerful Techniques for Influence and Leadership

    Michael Nir

    Become an Influencer and Leader Today! - Amazon Bestseller

    ** Updated advanced edition**

    Are you tired of not getting your message across?
    Are you not being heard by the people in your life? Does your boss ignore you and your spouse disregard what you think? Then this practical book is THE guide for you. It will enable you to change how you interact with others and teach you to positively influence and lead everyone around you in a non-manipulative way.
    Personal Growth:…

    Become an Influencer and Leader Today! - Amazon Bestseller

    ** Updated advanced edition**

    Are you tired of not getting your message across?
    Are you not being heard by the people in your life? Does your boss ignore you and your spouse disregard what you think? Then this practical book is THE guide for you. It will enable you to change how you interact with others and teach you to positively influence and lead everyone around you in a non-manipulative way.
    Personal Growth: Silent Influencing includes proven techniques and an easy-to-implement approach that leads to results. If you implement these techniques, you will succeed at being more influential throughout all aspects of your life.

    In the many workshops, consulting engagements and projects lead by author Michael Nir, he observed over and over that lack of talent, professionalism or abilities are rarely the barrier to success. Rather, success is hampered because of these elements:

    * Teams aren't functioning due to lack of leadership
    * Managers are dictating instead of cultivating
    * Partners are talking rather than listening
    * Conflict is mismanaged and negotiations are unnecessarily prolonged
    * Although face-to-face interactions are increasingly vital in our virtual world, we don't know how to optimize them
    * Lines of command tend to be blurred and accountability isn't properly defined

    Personal Growth: Silent Influencing will teach you these important skills that address the issues above:

    * The ability to streamline to achieve win/win decisions
    * How to mollify power plays and overcome resistance
    * Accentuation of the proper courses of action in any situation
    * Tips to maintain awareness in tricky high-stakes meetings

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  • Agile Product Owner Secrets Valuable Proven Results for Agile Management Revealed

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    Achieve more - Practical Advice - an Amazon Best Seller


    Proven Professional Advice for the Agile Scrum: The Agile Product Owner
    ****Updated and Advanced Edition****
    If you are like me you have probably ran into the same challenges with Agile. Based on my consulting and workshop experiences I am giving away these exclusive findings that would make an Agile breakthrough for You.
    You know it is the truth? don't you? You have witnessed it yourself in your company! I will…

    Achieve more - Practical Advice - an Amazon Best Seller


    Proven Professional Advice for the Agile Scrum: The Agile Product Owner
    ****Updated and Advanced Edition****
    If you are like me you have probably ran into the same challenges with Agile. Based on my consulting and workshop experiences I am giving away these exclusive findings that would make an Agile breakthrough for You.
    You know it is the truth? don't you? You have witnessed it yourself in your company! I will reliably guide you on what others don't tell you, the business analyst come product owner - making the product owner a powerful tool from a strategic perspective!

    Maybe you are afraid to take the first step? Aren't you? You have heard others experiences with Agile and you are unsure...let me introduce you to how it works easily and quickly. In Agile Scrum: The Agile Product Owner I am giving unique pioneering insights and secrets to unlock the magic of Agile.

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    Astonishing! I know what you are thinking - how is this never told before? Like you I was also dazzled by the powerful assertions however I quickly realized from practical and focused engagements that it just doesn't work in the pure way - in real life there has to be adjustments!
    * Agile Scrum: Agile Product Owner Secrets - Valuable Proven Results for Agile Management, Revealed is relevant for any project and product practitioner and team wishing to make use of emerging Agile High Tech concepts with Reliable waterfall tested concepts for Survival in the business
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    Simple and Genuine Concepts - Found nowhere Else




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  • Influence and Lead ! Fundamentals for Personal and Professional Growth

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    Fundamentals for Personal and Professional Growth - Bestseller


    I have been writing extensively business and personal books for self-help, team motivation leadership and personal growth. These are proven and tested, based on cumulative professional experience from consulting engagements given to global clients, and on the many workshops and seminars I've delivered on various topics. I decided to write Personal Coaching: Influence and Lead ! as a stand-alone bonanza, practical book for…

    Fundamentals for Personal and Professional Growth - Bestseller


    I have been writing extensively business and personal books for self-help, team motivation leadership and personal growth. These are proven and tested, based on cumulative professional experience from consulting engagements given to global clients, and on the many workshops and seminars I've delivered on various topics. I decided to write Personal Coaching: Influence and Lead ! as a stand-alone bonanza, practical book for you to use.
    Personal Coaching: Influence and Lead ! - A Surefire field guide for individuals and teams, Genuine and proven!

    *** Learn the power of a support coalition to further your goals and support your endeavors, differentiate between the naysayers and the supporters.

    *** Do you know whom to address in an Important presentation? Do you talk back at the people sitting in the last rows? I am sure you do! Is it a mistake? Read Personal Coaching: Influence and Lead ! and know the answer!

    Ace your next meeting and interview

    Change the stories you tell with Personal Coaching: Influence and Lead !


    The biggest most challenging obstacle we have to change is?

    *** If you answer Yourself - you are correct!
    *** You want to know how to change your self-fulfilling convictions? Don't you? I am sure you do!
    *** Powerful concepts of the influence the narratives have your life!

    Liberating yourself from your stories is an extremely powerful exercise!

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    ************* Once you have read Read Personal Coaching: Influence and Lead !, you will have access to tested concepts that immediately increase performance and ultimately make your life much easier. Thanks again for buying and striving to learn and better yourself.*************

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  • Marketing the Impossible Personal and Professional Five-Step Success Model, Entrepreneurs motivational books

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    Be all that you can be - Motivational books- an Amazon Best Seller


    Learn how to use the Five Step model for personal and business success
    I have been living the dream of doing whatever I want for nine years!
    Can you?
    No, actually you can't. Only gifted people like me can.
    I am just teasing you. Of course, you can do it. This is what Motivational books: Marketing the Impossible is all about.

    How to be your own boss, rich and successful? How do make the bold move…

    Be all that you can be - Motivational books- an Amazon Best Seller


    Learn how to use the Five Step model for personal and business success
    I have been living the dream of doing whatever I want for nine years!
    Can you?
    No, actually you can't. Only gifted people like me can.
    I am just teasing you. Of course, you can do it. This is what Motivational books: Marketing the Impossible is all about.

    How to be your own boss, rich and successful? How do make the bold move ahead?

    *** You don't need to have lots of money to start
    *** Learn the Powerful, Magical secret of the Five Steps

    How to use the Five step model to get AMAZING results in your business and personal life?

    *** People tell you not to follow through on your dreams, learn how to ignore them. How do you learn to listen to the right people?
    *** In Motivational books: Marketing the Impossible I have given a step by step model, based on an extensive COACHING AND CONSULTING experience

    Want to know how to market the impossible TWICE EFFECTIVELY

    *** Stephen Covey (7 habit) communicates with a SIMPLE but EFFECTIVE model to change how people operate. I have revealed this POWERFUL secret of the process and where the model fits.
    Motivational books: Marketing the Impossible
    Includes Five steps to move you away from the comfort zone to CHANGE
    *** I have shown why it is dangerous for you to remain in the comfort zone- I have busted the safety of the Comfort Zone
    How do you maintain direction from start to end?

    *** PERFECT - time to start with the actual work!
    *** How do you believe in yourself?
    *** What are the stories you have to let go off?
    *** What is UnProjecting and why is it important?
    *** What do you do with DELAY fish?

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  • Six Secrets of Powerful Teams: A practical guide to the magic of motivating and influencing teams

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    Practical Team and Personal Development - Amazon bestseller


    ** A Breakthrough Practical Guide to Creating More Powerful Teams! Updated advanced edition **

    This amazing practical book will help you uncover the magic of powerful teams. Creating a strong bond between team members can be elusive, whether in small or large endeavors, at work or in your personal life. But in Effective teams: Six Secrets of Powerful Teams, team management expert Michael Nir will strip away the…

    Practical Team and Personal Development - Amazon bestseller


    ** A Breakthrough Practical Guide to Creating More Powerful Teams! Updated advanced edition **

    This amazing practical book will help you uncover the magic of powerful teams. Creating a strong bond between team members can be elusive, whether in small or large endeavors, at work or in your personal life. But in Effective teams: Six Secrets of Powerful Teams, team management expert Michael Nir will strip away the mystery and teach you concrete methods that make team management easier for you and more rewarding for everyone concerned.

    Effective teams: Six Secrets of Powerful Teams explores:

    *Specific behaviors that are found in teams and advice about how to handle them as they occur - not later when they have already produced problems
    *Two core team scenarios that will help you understand your particular team's dynamics
    * Valuable proven team management guidelines and practical tips for how to implement them
    *Simple Gestalt psychological concepts and their practical application in teams
    *Powerful yet fundamental Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) concepts and their relevance to team interactions

    The information in Effective teams: Six Secrets of Powerful Teams will:

    * Help your team perform better as a unit
    * Teach you how to effectively motivate your team
    * Guide you to be an effective leader in a variety of diverse situations
    * Provide team conflict resolution tools

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Projects

  • Agile PMO Keynote

    - Present

    Conclusive research findings show that approximately %50 of PMOs are disbanded in two years. Yet, we repeat the same mistakes in our PMO implementations – wasting money, resources and most important – wasting time. In this presentation we focus on the value driven PMO as an integrator, enabler, differentiator, and change agent in business, development and the organization in general.
    We analyze the essential model for PMO value enablement which answers:
    • What is the strategic role of…

    Conclusive research findings show that approximately %50 of PMOs are disbanded in two years. Yet, we repeat the same mistakes in our PMO implementations – wasting money, resources and most important – wasting time. In this presentation we focus on the value driven PMO as an integrator, enabler, differentiator, and change agent in business, development and the organization in general.
    We analyze the essential model for PMO value enablement which answers:
    • What is the strategic role of the value driven PMO in business;
    • How to ensure effective streamlined delivery;
    • How to effectively select and prioritize opportunities;
    • How to manage resource allocation.
    Key take away – a PMO must deliver value to the organization constantly. Value isn’t templates, tools and processes rather it is the ability to finish the right projects faster!

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