Project management for Executives
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1 Day Workshop
A fast-paced overview of project management approaches, concepts, tools and processes tailored to Executives
Executives provide high-level governance to ensure that correct processes and standards are followed across organization and projects, meeting required quality standards.
Workshop delivers understanding of what is required of Executives to support and ensure that projects will meet their goal, specifications, criteria, customer demands and company profitability goals.
Workshop Benefits
Projects savings: costs & time - 50%
Perform pro-active project sponsorship
Effective risk management on projects
Sound executives decisions on projects
Workshop Outline
Project Management Overview
Project Management Essentials
Project Management Roles and Communication
Creating a Project Management Culture
Organizational information
Dates: 2018
Place: Bratislava
Price: 190,- EURO without VAT / 1 day
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Workshop is designed to show how Executive level can support and help project managers to be successful and avoid potential failures throughout the whole project cycle.
Workshop provides Executives and project sponsors with essential understanding of project management beyond the basic tools and processes involved.
As business environments are getting more complex - VUCA world, organizations are challenged with coping a seemingly unlimited supply of new projects and requirements with fewer available resources.
Benefits and Key outcomes - takeaways
Participants will:
Understand key concepts and processes of project management
Able to effectively oversight key project phases
Perform pro-active project sponsorship; support required changes and innovations associated with projects
Provide high-level governance to ensure that correct processes and standards are followed across organization and projects, meeting required quality standards
Ensure alignment of projects objectives and company goals and strategies
Support project management value for organization and ensure appropriate company resources are effectively utilized
Make sure that all risks associated with projects are being addressed and appropriate measures taken at all levels of organization
savings on your projects:
Time up to 50%
Costs 20 - 30%
you can save up to 40 business days per year with efficient implementation
KEY OBJECTIVES:
Understanding fundamentals of key project phases and associated risks and key success factors
How project management creates value to the organization / Stages of organizational project management maturity
Key characteristics of managing projects from a strategic perspective
Understanding of the various roles and responsibilities of executives and project managers throughout the project life cycle
Critical role in achieving overall company goals and results
KEY OUTCOMES:
How to align regular business processes and routines with disruptive project management dynamics, environment and requirements
Support project management value for organization and ensure appropriate company resources are effectively utilized
Make sure that all risks associated with projects are being addressed and appropriate measures taken at all levels of organization
How to react in times of project crisis and how to avoid them by taking proactive business decisions
KEY CHALLENGES:
In the last few years, project management has shifted from a tools, process and methods oriented approach to a complex, social and behavioral, context and technical competency-based discipline
Project management in VUCA world requires ability to deal with complex portfolio of changes, short product life cycle, cost efficiency and cross-functional expertise
Complexity of projects has to deal with company processes and systems, fast communication, huge data flows, vast stakeholders influences and fast changing business environment
Sound and effective software project management support:
under privileged conditions, you can get the COMM-PASS Project Management Tool - more information
Unique executive experience of project management
Projects are becoming extremely challenging due to increased product complexity and the need for cross-functional expertise
Project management methodologies provide flexible structure to plan and manage activities, time, resources and costs with minimizing risks
Increase your awareness of behavioral decision-making biases that come to play in project settings and environment
Better utilization of Project Management fundamentals - More effective project planning and Human Behavior
Understand how to perform a quality assurance role on projects in your organization
Practice active sponsorship and advocacy for a project management initiative - Describe the value that project management provides to the organization
Key role of Executives
Critical factor is how Executives use their time, resources and influence in order to ensure successful oversight of project programs, portfolios or singular projects
Executives possess enormous power to create and influence environment in which projects can thrive. Utilizing executive power and position allows to take simple actions that can generate cross-company consequences and results.
Successful project management requires much more than technically oriented leadership, it requires business oriented leadership accompanied with project and human resources leadership in order to meet high standards of project goals, time, resources, cost, quality and scope requirements.
Key topics of Project management for Executives:
GET TO KNOW AND EXPERIENCE standard procedures, principles and selected tools of project management (designed for Top managers and executives)
1. Project Management Overview
Framework, concepts and characteristics of a project
Purpose and the benefits of project management
2. Project Management Essentials
Definition of key phases of project management
Initiation
Planning
Executing
Monitoring / Controlling
Closing
Project priorities and potential resources conflicts
Effective risk management on projects
Innovations, effectiveness and change management on projects
3. Project Management Roles and Communication
Roles of the executive, project sponsor, and project manager
Quality assurance, deployment overseeing, sponsorship and advocacy
Effective communication on Executive level, information matrix
4. Creating a Project Management Culture
Foundations of a project management culture
Mutual cooperation between project environment and organizational structures
Strategic view on project management maturity
Who is the workshop designed for?
TOP Managers and Executives
TOP manages and executives who want to deepen and refresh their knowledge in project management
TOP managers and executives who are running project management team, or who are responsible for making change happen in their organizations
TOP managers and executives seeking inspiration and new ways of effective quality management with the resources deployed efficiently
Key Challenges in project management - Highlighted areas:
Challenges and key risk factors in creating a Project Management Culture
Project managers are challenged to deliver results with multi-national and multi-location project teams, keeping high morale, motivation and goal orientation across all project phases
How to make sound executives decisions in complex and uncertain project environment
Nowadays project management plays critical role in achieving complex changes, innovations and operational excellence in demanding business environment
Big picture - importance to keep complex project management programs aligned with particular projects and finally with overall company structures and strategies
Direct benefits and project management savings
Duration of training - workshop:
1 day / 9:00 - 17:00 /
Contact:
Workshop Project management for Executives is led by:
Ing. Peter Minárik, Project Management Expert
email: minarikp@commpass.sk
mt: +421 905 852 231
Nearest terms:
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Place of realization:
Bratislava
location will be specified
Price:
190,- EURO without VAT / 1 day per person
we have 10 seats for the participants
knowledge level: introductory workshop
Preferred price when ordering for multiple subscribers
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Support COMM-PASS Live:
selected individual groups of participants are provided with privileged participation conditions
students and graduates looking for a job
volunteerism - expert volunteers, volunteers
mothers on maternity leave
working seniors
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When to attend a workshop:
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