Management and Leadership

Making the Vision Real: How to Drive Change and Deliver Results

• Traditional Classroom: 1/2-day
• Virtual Instructor-led: One 3-hour session or Two 90-minute sessions

Leaders drive strategy and change within an organization. However, developing a strategic plan is only part of the process. Guiding its execution and nurturing a culture of adaptability and accountability is what really delivers the results. In this session we will cover how strategy helps identify change opportunities, the tactics needed to deliver change results, and how a project-oriented approach can be used to execute strategy and deliver the desired change outcomes. At the end of this session you will have built your tactical and strategic skills to drive change using a structured and project-based approach and deliver the results needed within your organization.

Target Audience

This course is designed for project managers, mid-level managers, leaders, team leads, and anyone working on projects.

Learning Objectives

• Describe factors that contribute to both project success and project failure.
• Articulate the business value of project management.
• Define stakeholder management and its connection to project success.
• Explain a process for prioritizing risks on a project.
• Apply project management skills in a fictionalized case study.
• Transform strategy into meaningful results through project management best practices.

Course Outline

Introduction and Objectives

The Basics

• The Situation
• Power of Projects

Stakeholder Management

The Scope Story

• The Opportunity
• The Solution
• The Work
• Case Study Application
  • Business Opportunity, Project Goal, Major Project Deliverables, Expected Business Outcomes

Making It Real: Delivering Results

• Driving Change and Delivering Results
• Group Breakout Activity: Driving Action, Instilling Accountability
• RAAID Model

Project Best Practices: Applying What Works

• Planning the Work
  • Case Study Application
• Scope, Schedule, Risk, and Change Management
• Project Communication
• Completing Change and Measuring Results

Summary and Next Steps

MDV1594b-3 Course Code