Business cases are often the only basis for making a decision about where to spend money and effort in projects and programmes. This course informs you about how to build and critique business cases for maximum strategic benefit.
The ability to health check projects, to provide assurance of their success, is a valuable skill for anyone relying on projects to deliver into their programme or portfolio. This course provides programme managers with a consistent approach to project health checks.
Engaging stakeholders well is the cornerstone of programme success. This course will help you to place the objective identification, evaluation, engagement and management of key stakeholders at the centre of your plans.
Most programmes now outsource parts or whole projects in order to get the best solution. However, this contractual element brings additional complexity for the programme manager. In this master class you will learn the additional disciplines and experiences necessary to successfully run or supply into contractual projects.
The abilty to correctly identify and manage the resources in your portfolio is the key to success. This two day master class exposes you to the complex people aspects of managing portfolios. It examines how you should manage, influence, lead and direct each of the major stakeholder groups and make the most effective use of the people involved.
The success of a programme is not truly felt by the organisation until the change is embedded. This key techniques course shows you the differences between 'real' and 'fake' change in an organisation and how to embed change so it sticks.
Coaching allows you to address a particular development need, programme challenge or personal concern in a safe one-to-one environment. The learning and outcomes of the coaching session are immediately applied to your current programme allowing you to show immediate value from the investment and addressing any barriers to application in the live project environment.