Project Leadership Guidelines for Success

This workshop is intended for senior and emerging leaders accountable for sponsoring and overseeing strategic project initiatives in an organizational context.  It is ideal for an organization’s entire senior leadership team. 

• Grow your knowledge about how projects fail and what makes them succeed
• Build the conditions needed for project and team success
• Establish accountability to drive better project outcomes 
• Provide the project tools needed to achieve positive results
• Use monitoring techniques to gauge project performance
• Keep projects aligned with the delivery of business benefits

Building Conditions for Success: Seeing the Big Picture

• Key project management concepts and how they impact success
• Getting the larger context first with Project Key Assessment Factors
• Using Project Key Performance Measures to analyze project performance and improve outcomes

Organizing for Success: Roles and Relationships

• Project organizational structures – which to use
• Relationships between the project steering committee, project and sustainment sponsors and the project management core team
• Establishing accountability through effective project leadership

Planning for Success: Tools that Drive Results

• Project management approaches and their affect on benefit realization
• Planning factors and their impact on success
• Ensuring the right tools are being used

Guiding Principles for Success: Learning from the Past

• Why projects fail and what makes them successful
• The 12 Project Key Performance Indicators: healthy and unhealthy signs
• Using a dashboard of oversight and early warning systems

Special features

You will engage in team exercises based on selections drawn from participants’ own upcoming strategic initiatives, and receive guided feedback from the workshop leader.

As part of the workshop, you will receive PMI® Professional Development Units (PDUs).