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Leading Project Managers: A Guide to Success
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Provider:
ESI International
Topic(s):
Leadership & Management > Project Management
Who Should Attend?
Managers of project managers with a basic understanding of project management
Full Seminar Description
In this highly facilitated workshop, you will learn the soft and hard skills and approaches that lead to managerial success in the management by projects environment. You also will get expert perspectives and review best practices on issues critical to those who manage project managers. 2 days. Fee per person: $1645 .Class Length: 2 Days
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Learn How To
- Define the leader’s role in each phase of the project life cycle
- Outline reasons for project successes
- Use key performance indicators to monitor ongoing project progress
- Support project managers and project teams through coaching, mentoring and rewarding success
- Select the tools and techniques of project management that will help your teams be successful
Course Synopsis
As organizational hierarchies give way to dynamic, cross-functional project teams, senior managers find themselves challenged with adopting a “new economy” approach to managing project managers. The leader of project managers must bring order and rationality to a chaotic environment, identify opportunities to influence the direction of projects and provide the means for project managers to succeed. In addition, the leader of project managers must be skilled at managing project portfolios, allocating resources, reviewing projects and communicating appropriately. Above all, the leader of project managers must know the right questions to ask!.In this highly facilitated course, you will learn soft and hard skills and approaches that lead to organizational success in the “management by projects” environment. You also will get expert perspectives and review best practices on issues critical to those who lead project managers. You’ll enjoy lively debate and stimulating conversation that reinforces what you know and what you’ve learned..
This course provides you with a new way of thinking about the best way to lead people in conjunction with the underlying process of project management. It is a “must-have” for anyone responsible for leading and managing project managers.
Course Topics
- The Leader of Project Managers (LPM) Role in the Project Life Cycle
- Managing the Stage Gate process
- The project environment
- The role of management in each phase of the life cycle
- Defining project success within the organization
- Organizational factors affecting project management
- Knowing the organization's project management process
- Managing in a Multi-Project Environment
- The importance of rank ordering projects across the organization
- Managing multiple project issues
- Resource allocation
- Issue resolution
- Resource pool considerations
- Project Initiation
- Project selection
- Project charter
- Project funding
- Stakeholder considerations
- Financial tools
- Understanding margins
- Leading and Managing Project Managers
- Challenges of leading and managing project managers
- Identifying, developing, evaluating and retaining project managers
- Rewarding success
- The LPM's Role in Project Planning
- Risk management
- Cost estimates
- Schedule development
- Resource allocation
- Communications management
- Project plan review
- Project plan approval
- Managing Relationships
- Communicating across the organization
- Managing expectations
- Management styles
- Mentoring/coaching
- Conducting effective meetings
- Supporting project managers of virtual teams
- Supporting diversity and cross-cultural teams
- Conflict/resolution
- The LPM's Role in Project Implementation
- Project manager and team performance
- Asking the right questions
- Management oversight
- Determining if earned value is the project performance measuring tool to use
- Project reviews
- Project audits
- Understanding signs of trouble
- Project recovery and turnaround
- Change management
- Project Close
- Early termination
- Project end evaluation
- Lessons learned
Professional Development Units
PDUs: 15.0
Sponsor Background:
In 1989, ESI and The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management initiated the Project Management Professional Development Program as a corporate training program for one of the world's leading telecommunications companies.As the demand for project management expertise increased, ESI began offering public courses.
To date, more than 250,000 students from 50 countries around the world have benefited from the courses. As a result, our Project Management Professional Development Program has achieved the distinction of being the world's most comprehensive education program for building project management knowledge and skills.
Discounts and Payment Policy
Receive 10 percent off your registration when you sign up for two or more classes or you register yourself and a friend for the same course at the same time. You must sign up for the courses at the same time and pay in advance. Course discounts do not apply toward The Project Advantage course, the PMP Exam Preparation course or any e-training course.
In case of a course cancellation, substitutions can be arranged. Double Deal discounts cannot be applied to any past classes and are not applicable to e-training courses, the PMP Exam Preparation course or The ProjectAdvantage.
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