Project Managers looking to take their career to the next level need to acquire additional strategic project management leadership skills that prepare them for senior leadership positions. This strategic project management course is designed to give experienced PMs exposure to three critical areas of business that will help them demonstrate their ability to lead organizations effectively: Strategy and Strategic Thinking, Communicating Like a Leader, Business Acumen – Thinking Beyond Projects.
Benefit by attending with participants from other regions in Canada! Delivered simultaneously by select University Executive Education Network partner schools: Schulich Executive Education Centre, Carleton University - Sprott School of Business, Memorial University - Gardiner Centre, Saint Mary's University - Sobey School of Business, University of Victoria - Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Winnipeg
Top Reasons To Choose This Program
Gain familiarity with the strategic planning process
Discover mechanisms for choosing the right course of action
Learn key business mindset questions to ask
Acquire critical thinking skills using proven leadership tools and techniques
Understand the art and science of making and communicating decisions
About This Program
Today’s organizations are looking for tomorrow’s leadership team and project managers make great leaders!
As an experienced PM, the next step in your career could very well take you to the senior leadership level. This three-day strategic project management course will give participants a solid understanding of the three key elements that PMs need to embrace to enhance their strategic project manager leadership skills. Participants will come away from the program inspired to reach to the next level with a new road map for their careers – their own professional strategic plan to guide them on the journey to their next professional step.
Benefit by attending with participants from other regions in Canada!
Delivered simultaneously by select University Executive Education Network partner schools:
Schulich Executive Education Centre
Carleton University – Sprott School of Business
Memorial University – Gardiner Centre
Saint Mary’s University – Sobey School of Business
University of Victoria – Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
University of Winnipeg
Top Take-Aways
Familiarity with the strategic planning process
Increased awareness of the factors that guide and impact strategic thinking
Strategic options and mechanisms for choosing the right course of action
Key business leadership mindset questions to ask
Systematic ways to identify and assess key business problems and opportunities
Critical thinking skills using proven leadership tools and techniques.
Improved efficiency and effectiveness when planning and implementing change initiatives
Communicating with authority
How to “pre-read” and present to audiences of all sizes
Understand the art of science of making and communicating decisions
Adapt a ‘story-telling’ approach to influencing people
Who Should Attend
The strategic project leadership course is designed for individuals with prior experience in the discipline of project management, including, project management professionals, graduates of the Masters Certificate in Project Management and other similar programs and current PMPs.
Learn the tools and frameworks for strategic decision-making. Cultivate a systematic way of thinking that enables you to develop comprehensive answers to key questions.
Strategy vs. Business Model
The Strategic Management Process
External and Internal Environment Analysis
Choosing the Right Strategy(ies)
Session 2 - Developing Your Business Acumen – Thinking Beyond Projects
Develop a CEO mindset that considers a wider scope. Learn the essential concepts, tools, techniques and skills needed to manage the entire business.
Taking an inventory of your business acumen
Identifying the business problem/opportunity
Techniques to think strategically and critically
Planning and implementing change
Session 3 - Leadership in Action
Leading effectively (colleagues, clients, and stakeholders as well as leadership, staff and management) is the key to taking your business initiatives to higher success levels.
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21 HRPA-CPD Hours
This program has been approved for CDP hours under Section A of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Log of the Human Resource Professionals Association (HRPA). Be sure to note the program ID number on your CPD log. For more information about certification or continuing professional development, visit the HRPA website at www.hrpa.ca/hrdesignations_/Pages/Continuing-Professional-Development.aspx