• Lead project teams in achieving rapid results
• Plan projects to optimize boundary-less resources, minimize risk and achieve strategic objectives
• Improve project results in cost, schedule, and performance through greater collaboration across borders
• Understand the impact of national business cultures on decision-making processes
• Manage multiple projects successfully through effective tracking, evaluating and control

Every manager needs to learn to translate strategic initiatives into an effective project plan for implementation. In this intensive thee-day program, you will develop a project, from compelling vision to executing the project with the focus on satisfied customers and profitable business, while developing motivated project teams. We will also look at how we leverage your business vision and strategy but influencing the system for prioritizing projects and managing resources. We will cover all nine areas of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), which is an internationally recognized standard. It also addresses the challenges of complex projects and geographically dispersed multi-cultural teams working across functional and geographical boundaries.

Leading Strategic Projects-Hong Kong also covers the eight steps of successful project management including creating a project vision, strategy and measurable objectives, as well as techniques for mastering scheduling including various tools that help you to succeed (Examples: PERT, critical path networks, Gantt charts) and the overall project plan. It builds acute attention to project deliverables and management skills to bring complex projects to successful completion. We will make use of project software in the program. Please note prior project management experience is not essential though helpful.

In short, the program addresses the entire spectrum of leading large projects from planning, through risk management project control, and close.

Who Should Attend Leading Strategic Projects-Hong Kong

This program is designed specifically for managers who are keen to acquire the necessary capability of leading complex projects, which is a core leadership competence. This will especially be helpful for those who need to create a high-performance environment in the absence of direct authority over global/regional project resources. Executives seeking to develop project leadership competencies and techniques to meet the challenges of leading in an international business environment with multinational customers, colleagues, and competitors will also benefit.

You will understand unique leadership requirements in cross-border business and why many projects go wrong, as well as to assess your strengths and weaknesses as a leader of cross-border projects.

Participants from previous sessions have developed projects to:

• Launch new businesses;
• Turnaround failed projects in product and service businesses;
• Win new contracts through formation of cross-border teams;
• Develop new projects in record time

This program presents the concepts of project leadership and provides an opportunity to successfully apply the eight-step project management techniques to an actual project inside your organization. The program was created and is taught by a successful global manager who has guided many Fortune Global 500 managers in planning and implementing projects with teams from many countries.

Dynamic Project Leadership

• The sub-optimized project case
• Project management introduction
• Effective project leadership across borders
• Critical success factors in project management

Planning the Project

• Planning the project: quick start
• Defining market opportunities
• Creating vision and setting direction
• Establishing project objectives and building consensus
• Project and contract management roles and responsibilities

Managing Across Cultures

• Building cross cultural teams
• Communicating to project stakeholders
• Personal leadership styles and 360° project leadership
• Communicating across cultures and nationalities
• Team-building challenges, dynamics and communication strategies

Project Software Overview

• Applying project management to actual projects
• Project screening and selection
• Applying the 8-step process
• Project budgeting, planning, scheduling, monitoring, and variance analysis
• Configuration management: keeping project components in alignment
• Tools to redeploy scare assets, accelerate tasks, and manage projects with multiple stakeholders

Managing Multiple Projects

• Resolving organizational priorities
• Balancing resources from different locations or business units
• Assessment and management of risks: financial, technical, and legal

Project Close out

• Guiding the project to successful completion
• Post-project evaluation: wins, losses, and learning--closing out effectively

Project Presentations

The program fee includes tuition, books, instructional materials, and coffee breaks. Fee is payable in advance in US dollars and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy

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