Advanced Project Leadership: Navigating Corporate Structures - 2.0 hours/PDUs (Category A)

Advanced Project Leadership - Navigating Corporate Structures

Overview/Description

Target Audience

Expected Duration

Lesson Objectives

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Overview/Description

Advanced Project Leadership: Navigating Corporate Structures teaches the project managers how to understand the corporate environment, in particular as it relates to high-profile projects. First, you will learn how to identify different types of stakeholders, and how they may influence the project. You will learn how to deal with stakeholders Hidden Agendas. You will also learn about project sponsors, and how their position in an organization's structure affects their responsibilities towards a project. You will also learn how to help the inexperienced sponsor be successful. Finally, you will learn how to execute projects in a Functional Organization, the most prevalent and difficult environment for project management.


Target Audience

Project managers who are responsible for managing all aspects of a project from start to finish. They will be responsible for managing multiple projects, and maximizing utilization of resources to achieve the project goals. It is recommended that individuals take the first course in the series or have equivalent knowledge.


Expected Duration (hours)

2.0


Lesson Objectives

Advanced Project Leadership - Navigating Corporate Structures

Identify characteristics of various types of stakeholders

Identify benefits of stakeholder analysis

Identify the steps to perform stakeholder analysis

Identify strategies to deal with stakeholders with hidden agendas

Define a project sponsor

Identify the three levels of sponsorship within a company

Identify responsibilities of strategic, tactical, and operational sponsors

Identify the impact that the type of organization can have on project sponsors

Identify ways to help project sponsors be successful

Identify the structure of a functional organization

Identify advantages of project management in a functional organization

Identify potential issues for project management in a functional organization

Identify ways to handle project management challenges in a functional organization

Identify strategies to use when assigned to the project after it has started

Identify the structure of a projectized organization

Identify advantages of project management in a projectized organization

Identify potential issues of project management in a projectized organization

Identify the steps to move toward a projectized organization

Course Number:
en_US_41525_ng