Leading Project Managers

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  • Define the leader’s role in each phase of the project life cycle
  • Outline reasons for project successes
  • Use key performance indicators to monitor ongoing project progress
  • Support project managers and project teams through coaching, mentoring and rewarding success
  • Select the tools and techniques of project management that will help your teams be successful

The leader of project managers must bring order and rationality to a chaotic environment, identify opportunities to influence the direction of projects and lay the foundation for project managers to succeed. In addition, the leader of project managers must be skilled at managing project portfolios, allocating resources, reviewing projects and communicating appropriately. Above all, the leader of project managers must know the right questions to ask!

In this highly facilitated course, you will learn soft and hard skills and approaches that lead to organizational success in the “management by projects” environment. You also will get expert perspectives and review best practices on issues critical to those who lead project managers. You’ll enjoy lively debate and stimulating conversation that reinforces what you know and what you’ve learned.

This course provides you with a new way of thinking about the best way to lead people in an organization that uses a project management approach. It is a “must-have” for anyone responsible for leading and managing project managers.

  • The Leader of Project Managers (LPM) Role in the Project Life Cycle
  • Managing the Stage Gate process
  • The project environment
  • The role of management in each phase of the life cycle
  • Defining project success within the organization
  • Organizational factors affecting project management
  • Knowing the organization's project management process
  • Managing in a Multi-Project Environment
  • The importance of rank ordering projects across the organization
  • Managing multiple project issues
  • Resource allocation
  • Issue resolution
  • Resource pool considerations
  • Project Initiation
  • Project selection
  • Project charter
  • Project funding
  • Stakeholder considerations
  • Financial tools
  • Understanding margins
  • Leading and Managing Project Managers
  • Challenges of leading and managing project managers
  • Identifying, developing, evaluating and retaining project managers
  • Rewarding success
  • The LPM's Role in Project Planning
  • Risk management
  • Cost estimates
  • Schedule development
  • Resource allocation
  • Communications management
  • Project plan review
  • Project plan approval
  • Managing Relationships
  • Communicating across the organization
  • Managing expectations
  • Management styles
  • Mentoring/coaching
  • Conducting effective meetings
  • Supporting project managers of virtual teams
  • Supporting diversity and cross-cultural teams
  • Conflict/resolution
  • The LPM's Role in Project Implementation
  • Project manager and team performance
  • Asking the right questions
  • Management oversight
  • Determining if earned value is the project performance measuring tool to use
  • Project reviews
  • Project audits
  • Understanding signs of trouble
  • Project recovery and turnaround
  • Change management
  • Project Close
  • Early termination
  • Project end evaluation
  • Lessons learned

"The course is entirely pertinent to my current job and I have already been able to take advantage of what I have learned by initiating some action plans for my project."

Karen Scott, PMP
General Motors


" I absolutely love ESI courses. Always worth the time and investment! I've learned something new everytime."

Elise Labre, Senior Project Manager
Baxter Healthcare

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Detailed Schedule Information Mar 05 - 06, 2012 Public Classroom Arlington, VA
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