Managing as Project Champion


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Target Audience
Expected Duration
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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 point 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 deliver on 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 skillful 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

Managing as Project Champion

  • appreciate the importance of being a project champion.
  • apply the characteristics and behaviors of a project champion, rather than a project manager, to a given situation.
  • apply the criteria that describe the roles of the project champion when presented with a real life situation.
  • identify the key partnership roles that interact with a project champion.
  • identify strategies for managing a project team.
  • recognize the critical importance of coaching the content specialist.
  • identify guidelines to use when selecting a content specialist for a project team.
  • in a given scenario, apply the guidelines for coaching a content specialist.
  • identify the items to consider in establishing accountability of a content specialist.
  • recognize the importance of effective communication in clarifying project outcomes.
  • apply the techniques for establishing mutual outcomes to a given scenario.
  • choose methods to communicate project information appropriate to specific situations.
  • apply techniques for effective team meetings to a given scenario.
  • apply knowledge of effective processes to help solve team problems in a given scenario.

    • Course Number:
    mgmt_04_a04_bs_enus