Strategic Project Leadership®

Dynamic Adaptation + Business Leadership

3 Days Intensive Course

Background - Our Approach
Managing execution of strategic initiatives as a “project” is a critical activity for almost all organizations’ success. It’s a key capability that most organizations are struggling to get it and inspite of investments in training and development, most strategy execution initiatives and projects today are still not achieving their business objectives although some do go on to achieve their time and budget objectives.

Based on experience, observations and research by our experts academicians, practitioners and implementers, our experience has been that the traditional approach to managing projects is mostly focused on trying to meet time and budget goals, and is often decoupled from changes in the environment or the business needs.

Project Management Academy along with The Technological Leadership Institute has therefore designed a program, which uses the “Linking Learning to Performance” approach to Project Management. This program is a combination of traditional project management education together with a modern, research based and industry proven Strategic Project Leadership® Framework.  The framework address the ways to deal with the reality i.e. most projects today are, uncertain, complex, changing viz. highly impacted by the dynamics in their business environment.

What is Strategic Project Leadership®Strategic Project Leadership® (SPL) is a new, integrated approach to managing strategic projects that combines four important aspects of modern projects: traditional project management knowledge for operational excellence, strategic focus on initiatives business results, dynamic adaptation for dealing with uncertainty and change, and the human elements of project leadership. This approach is helping organizations to deal with their strategic projects in a flexible and adaptive way; and more important, it focuses those projects on creating value, competitive advantage and winning in the marketplace.

This model is building and improving existing project management processes to increase the chances of project success.

Learning Objectives – What will you gain in this course

• Development of the core competencies of project management. Competency Framework
• Implement a dynamic and adaptive project management methodology
• Build a strategic, business-focused approach for planning, organizing, and running projects for business results.
• Focus on your responsibility as a project leader of people, not just a manager of processes and activities.

Organization Outcome:
Organizations can leverage this hands-on program and expertise of the faculties and facilitators, for a team of its manager and functional leaders can develop their project definitions, initiation, strategy, spirit and implementation plans. Some of the strategic initiatives among others that can benefit from this program:

• Launching a Mission Critical Business Initiative – New Products/Services/Market Entry
• Rolling out their next technology led operational and business process improvement initiative
• Definitions and High level plan for a complex transformation initiative
• Recovery Plan for bringing a troubled project back on track

Topics Covered:

1. Introduction
• The Project Leader’s Total Responsibility – The “Mini CEO” concept
• A focus on Project Success – Strategic Success and Failure Criteria
• The concept of Strategic Project Leadership®

2. Dynamic Adaptation
• Expect Change
• One Size Does not fit All
• The Diamond Approach

3. The Business Focused Approach
• The five planning elements of Strategic Project Leadership®
• Building the Project Strategy and Spirit
• The 12 principles of Strategic Project Leadership®

4. Human Side of Project Leadership
• Your transition from a team member to project manager and leader
• Your responsibility to lead, motivate, and inspire
• Team-building, communication, and coaching roles
• Your responsibility for self development and growth

Who Should Attend:
Senior Managers/Leaders with 10 to 15 years of experience. Participant should be currently responsible to lead and deliver a strategic initiative for their organization.  Ideal participants are organized sponsored and or have permissions from their organization to attend and apply their learning’s on a live project.  It’s highly beneficial for an organization if a team of 3-4 core members responsible for a major strategic initiative come together for the program.

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