Empowering Management to Drive Project Success

The Challenge
Projects drive strategy. When strategic initiatives succeed, the enterprise moves forward. But when they fail, the entire strategic plan can be placed in jeopardy. Project success depends on many factors, not the least of which is the input, guidance and work of the Management Team. Unfortunately, the extent to which management has impact on final project outcomes is often poorly understood.

The Solution
The impact of management in projects is significant. It is generally accepted that management is responsible for defining business strategy and then funding the projects required to accomplish that strategy. But management's role in projects goes much further, and includes:

Building support in the organization for effective project practices
Maintaining an effective balance of project and operational work
Using capacity planning to manage the project pipeline
Ensuring that project staff have appropriate tools and training
Providing constructive project oversight

Those managers who sponsor projects have additional, and very important, responsibilities such as:

Defining the project's long-term Business Value
Getting the right people involved in the project
Providing adequate resources and time for the work
Ensuring that quality in deliverables is sufficient for realization of Business Value
Supporting and guiding their projects

This advanced workshop for managers clearly defines management’s role in driving project success, presents actionable best practices that manager’s can immediately implement, and provides ample opportunity for managers to apply these principles to their own, real world initiatives. The workshop includes an actual, hands-on assessment of current management level project practice.

Who should attend
Empowering Management to Drive Project Success will benefit anyone who wants to get the most out of every project dollar, including CEO, CFO, COO, CIO, other Senior Executives, PMO/COE Director, Functional Managers and Executives with project responsibility, Portfolio Managers, and anyone who uses projects to execute Business Strategy.

Learning Objectives – Understand the following:

The strategic importance of projects and programs
Nature of project success
Obtaining Business Value from projects
Why management’s role in projects is critical
How management can foster a supporting project environment
Special role of the Project Sponsor
Four factors that optimize long term project value
Steps a Sponsor can take to support their project investments
Management Best Practices that support projects
Conduct a management level project practice assessment

Learning Approach

A highly experienced instructor will use an interactive lecture format, group discussions and other techniques to drive home the essential points of this material.
This workshop includes a brief management level project practice assessment. This assessment provides each participant with insights about how to improve use of management best practices in their own organization.
We will build on your prior experience in this topic, while providing you with a structure and vocabulary to use in future projects.
You will receive a Student Guide which will help you follow the material, take notes and retain what you learned so that you can apply it on your job.

Why should I take this workshop?

Empowering Management to Drive Project Success provides managers at all levels with steps they can take to ensure that their projects are a success. Attendees should be able to make immediate use of the practical steps presented in this workshop.
Take this workshop and learn what you can do to ensure that your projects deliver the intended Business Value.

Every course and workshop in our Project Training program is fully customizable. We offer virtual delivery of the training program you need. Call us: +1.919.495.7371.

All of our courses are fully compliant with the latest release of each relevant standards document such as the PMBOK® Guide, Standard for Portfolio Management, BABOK® Guide, and others.

Course Information

Course ID: 1732
Duration: Half Day
Class size: 6 to 40
Includes:
· PMP® certified instruction
· Student Guide
· Participation Certificate
· 3 PDUs

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Pricing Information
On-site discounts are available.

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