Business Skills for Project Managers: Improve Your Focus, Credibility and Success
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Business Skills for Project Managers: Improve Your Focus, Credibility and Success Course
Introduction:
In this intermediate-level course, we transcend the fundamentals of project management and delve into advanced techniques that will elevate your management performance. By adopting business practices that emulate successful enterprises, you will unlock the potential for superior bottom-line results, not only benefiting yourself but also your project sponsors, your superiors, and your organization as a whole.
One of the key aspects we will focus on is connecting with executives by effectively communicating in their language. By understanding and speaking the language of business leaders, you will bridge the gap between project management and executive decision-making. This strategic alignment will enable you to gain their support, secure necessary resources, and elevate the profile of your projects within the organization.
Throughout the course, we will encourage you to think, decide, and act like a CEO. By embracing a CEO mindset, you will develop a broader perspective, make informed decisions, and take actions that align with the overall strategic direction of your organization. This shift in thinking will not only enhance your credibility as a project manager but also contribute to your personal and professional success.
By the end of the course, you will have acquired the tools and knowledge to effectively manage projects with a business mindset. You will be equipped to drive projects with a focus on delivering exceptional results and maximizing value for your organization. Moreover, you will have developed the skills to navigate the corporate landscape, gain executive buy-in, and establish your reputation as a trusted and influential project leader.
Join us in this course to take your project management skills to the next level. By adopting business-driven practices, speaking the language of executives, and embracing a CEO mindset, you will enhance your credibility, achieve greater project success, and contribute significantly to the overall success of your organization.
Course Objectives:
- Effectively engage upper management by associating projects to business goals, values and performance factors
- Be recognized for creating corporate shareholder value
- Generate consistent and positive, bottom-line results
- Elevate your career with business-enabling skills
- Credibly communicate with business executives
- Realize practical solutions to real-work projects
Who Should Attend?
Project managers, managers, and professionals who understand the basics of project management.
Course Outlines:
- How to address company growth, shareholder value, market share, profitability, cost-containment and other primary business drivers
- To align your project to financial, marketing and strategic goals
- To support other corporate strategies and enable strategic competitive advantages
- How to connect your project to high impact interests of your corporate customers
- Leveraging the key elements of accounting, finance and economics
- Marketing and promotion of your project in relation to other corporate projects
- To combine logic and creativity towards innovative corporate results
- The value of advancing the corporate benefits of organizational change
- Management of corporate resources as if you are the CEO