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Rescue My Project: The First 30 Days
The recovery keynote. What to actually do when the project is already on fire.
Everyone wants the playbook for the project that's already burning. Brian has run that playbook for 30 years, and he built Rescue My Project™ around it. This keynote takes the audience inside the first 30 days of a real rescue: how you run the assessment when nobody wants to talk, how you make the brutal continue-reset-stop decision, and how you get the first wins that buy the team room to recover. It's the assessment-to-recovery arc Brian uses in the field, told through war stories where the numbers do the persuading.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
- The first-30-days arc: assessment, project decision, first wins
- How to run an honest assessment when the team is in self-protection mode
- The continue, reset, or stop decision, and how to make it defensibly
- Why handing the team the playbook beats keeping them dependent
FORMATS
45-minute keynotePairs with 50 Shades as a prevention-plus-recovery half dayFull-day workshop from the RMP instructor material
SAMPLE OUTLINE
- 01The open: a critical project on fire, and the call that brings Brian in
- 02Day zero: running the assessment when no one wants to talk
- 03The project decision: continue, reset, or stop, and how to defend it
- 04First wins, and why they buy the team room to recover
- 05The consultative-training handoff: the playbook on the way out
- 06What changes in 30 days, and what doesn't
- 07Close: the rescue mindset, and your first move tomorrow