Course description
Managing and Leading Projects Across Organizational Boundaries - Achieving Project Success in Complex Environments Through Collaborative Skills: On-Demand
Significant projects today are performed by teams of people from multiple organization units and, often, multiple companies. When project managers, team leaders or technical professionals seek collaborative relationships across organizational boundaries, they often encounter a daunting array of challenges.
These challenges must be dealt with effectively across business, political, team, interpersonal and personal levels to successfully meet project objectives. The goal of this course is to provide participants with a framework for improving project performance by successfully navigating through the turbulence of organizational cultures.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
Among those who would benefit from this course are:
- Project managers, project component leads or project team members
- Program and portfolio managers
- Anyone who needs to get work done in the context of a complex organizational culture
- Technical managers
- Business unit managers
- Executives
This course is highly relevant to people in virtually any industry, function or discipline involved in projects where they must reach across organizational boundaries (i.e., departments, functions or business units) for collaboration, resources or support and who have little or no formal authority to do so.
Prerequisites
Basic project management training or equivalent experience
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What You Will Learn
You'll learn how to:
- Assess an organizational culture’s challenges and adapt your interpersonal skills and political acumen to meet them
- Apply basic tools and techniques for building relationships and gaining influence across organizational boundaries
- Plan a tailored, systematic approach for gaining support, resources and collaboration from individuals in organizations where you have no formal influence
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introductions
- Course structure
- Course goals and objectives
Foundation Concepts
- Overview of key course concepts
- Managing and leading: the balance and evolution
- Managing and leading projects versus ongoing work
- Organizations defined and a project manager's outlook across the structures
- The Path to Competency in Managing and Leading Projects Across Organizational Boundaries (MLPAOB)
Organizational Cultures and Behaviors
- Overview of organizational culture and behaviors
- Organizations and change
- Organizational grassroots changes
Political Acumen
- Overview of role and impact of political acumen
- Role of politics in organizations
- Political behaviors
- How to improve your political acumen skills
Building Relationships
- Strategies for building relationships
- Balance emotion with reason
- "Try to understand"
- Inquire, consult and listen
- Reliability and building trust
Gaining Influence
- Overview of gaining influence
- Step 1: Determine influence needs
- Step 2: Assess influence assets
- Step 3: Plan approach
- Step 4: Implement plan
- Step 5: Manage progress
Planning and Implementing Your Approach
- Overview of Implementation Approach and Continuous Improvement (IA&CI)
- Enhancing Primary MLPAOB skills through:
- Identifying and sampling auxiliary MLPAO skills
- Practicing MLPAOB skills
- Self-reflection: developing a personal action plan (optional - time permitting)
Summary
- What did we learn, and how can we implement this in our work environments?
Course delivery details
- Access your courses anytime, anywhere, with a computer, tablet or smartphone
- Videos, quizzes and interactive content designed for a proven learning experience
- 120 Days access. Take your courses on your schedule.
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