The Manager as Project Champion


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
Albert Einstein said, The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.Are you a person who can drive a project on the outside, and hold yourself responsible from within? Can you be the force, the influence and the leading person who holds the keys to ultimate success? That's what it takes to be a project champion. This is not a course about the technical skills associated with project management. It's a course about what motivates people to achieve well-defined project objectives. How do you engage and fully focus those involved in an important development effort? You must be equipped to teach, support, let go and get out of the way! You must also be a skilful negotiator, as well as a person who empowers others to solve their thorniest problems. To lead a championship effort, you must become an effective project champion.

Target Audience
Department directors, managers, supervisors, coaches

Expected Duration (hours)
3.5

Lesson Objectives

Defining "The Champion"

  • recognise the benefits of developing the skills to be an effective champion.
  • choose the characteristics that distinguish project championship from project management.
  • identify the criteria that describe the roles of the project champion.
  • identify the key partnership roles that interact with a project champion.
  • identify strategies for managing a project team.

    • Subject-Matter Experts as Champions

  • recognise the critical importance of coaching the subject-matter expert.
  • identify guidelines to use when selecting a subject-matter expert for a project team.
  • select information to include when coaching a subject-matter expert.
  • identify the items to consider in establishing accountability of a subject-matter expert.

    • Outcome-based Communication Strategies

  • recognise the importance of effective communication in clarifying project outcomes.
  • identify steps of the process to discover mutual outcomes.
  • choose methods to communicate project information appropriate to specific situations.
  • identify techniques that contribute to having effective team meetings.
  • develop an effective step-by-step process to help solve team problems.

    • Course Number:
    MGMT8114