FIVE-DAY PAIRED COURSE
Persuasion and Influence Skills for the Project Manager
The art and science of persuasion and influence
- Exploring your project management influence challenges
- Building your credibility as a project manager
- Learning and using a practical process for persuading and influencing
- Identifying and working with your project stakeholders
- Assessing your persuasion and influencing skills
Influencing effectively at your organization
- Understanding organization dynamics and politics and how they impact your project
- Mapping project stakeholders
- Uncovering people’s needs, interests and agendas
- Finding common ground with agenda linking
- Individual application of persuasion and influence communication with sponsors, stakeholders and team members
Project Management Capstone
Project initiation
- Review business case for project
- Meeting with project sponsor and key stakeholders
- Developing a project charter
- Defining the project scope with a scope statement
Project planning
- Writing a statement of work (SOW)
- Constructing the work breakdown structure (WBS)
- Planning a project using MS Project
- Building time and cost estimates
- Developing the project schedule (network diagram)
- Assigning resources
- Cost/schedule optimization
- Presenting estimates and plan to project sponsors
- Baselining the project
Project execution and control
- Updating the plan with actuals
- Managing change requests
- Determining impacts to other projects
Project closure
- Completion and submission of all project deliverables
- Conducting post-project reviews
- Capturing lessons learned
- Instructor evaluation and feedback
Schedule: Five-day paired course
Days 1 and 2 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. First course
Day 3 — 8:00 a.m. – noon End of first course
Day 3 — 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Start second course
Day 4 — 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Second course
Day 5 — 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. End second course