8 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Align leaders around capabilities to produce desired outcomes and adapt projects and outcomes to changing conditions.
8 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Align leaders around capabilities to produce desired outcomes and adapt projects and outcomes to changing conditions.
Course overview
Exceptional project leaders understand a critical truth: projects don't exist in a vacuum. They thrive when deeply aligned with the organization's operational capabilities and strategic objectives. This isn't just about delivering outputs; it's about understanding the tangible business outcomes your projects are intended to achieve and becoming a true strategic business partner.
Imagine having a clearer understanding of the fundamental building blocks of your organization. Knowing these capabilities empowers you to:
Communicate more effectively with stakeholders across all levels, using a shared language of business value.
Make more informed project decisions, prioritizing initiatives that directly contribute to desired goals.
Pivot quickly and confidently when faced with changing market dynamics or organizational needs.
Manage project resources more effectively, ensuring they're focused on activities that drive the most significant impact.
This isn't just another theoretical course. We'll equip you with actionable strategies to connect the dots between your organization's essential capabilities and your projects. You'll learn how to ask the right questions to uncover these critical links and ensure your work is always aligned with the bigger picture.
You will benefit from over 6 hours of direct interaction with experienced faculty and participate in a lab that leans on GenAI to enhance your understanding of business capabilities to better define and scope your projects.
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Project Managers who recognize that projects don't exist in isolation and are interested in addressing the bigger picture.
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Business Analysts who have a project focus and are interested in bridging the gap between business needs and project execution.
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Leaders at all levels who provide the necessary resources, guidance, and support to enable project teams to achieve their objectives.
A strategic lens:
Enhanced communication:
Improved decision-making:
Effective resource management:
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
3 live sessions • 22 lessons • 2 projects
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Mar
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Mar
24
Will Nicholson
Derval Kennedy
Outcome-orientated pragmatic leader with a steady track record helping teams, leadership, and organizations grow, scale, and transform. Her 20+ years of expertise in Business Architecture, Information Technology, and Data Architecture, Business Analysis, Agile Project Management and Change Management gives Amber a well-rounded view of transformation. She brings a culturally diverse perspective and insights to address individual leader needs and takes delight in making others shine.
A business maker, learner, and coach with a keen interest in helping individuals, teams and organizations realize their performance aspirations. After leaving Engineering and Information Technology, Jim found his work/playground in a place where people, process, technology, and business can align to produce amazing results. Jim has led Teaming, Leadership Alignment, Leader Development, Organization Design, Business Transformation, Strategy Clarification programs for organizations in Europe, The Americas, and Asia.
Curiosity has led Rich into some exciting business innovations such as the balanced scorecard, capability modeling, and new growth platforms. Along the way, he has collaborated with some great people from academia, consulting and client companies. He has authored three books: Measure Up!, Corporate Renaissance, and The Capable Company. In the field, he has led numerous business transformation projects and has been running Strategy to Execution workshops for leaders at all levels.
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Cohort 2
$750
Dates
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6 to 8 hours
Tuesday, Wedneday and Thursdays (June 10 and 11)
10:00m - 12:00pm EST
Live session includes working labs on use of GenAI in aligning projects to close capability gaps.
Note:
Some prework and intersession work is encouraged.
Creating Organization Flexibility with Real Options
Assessing projects that close capability gaps can benefit from Wall Street thinking. View Projects as “real options” — projects interacting with each other over time to maximize results. This approach helps leadership teams understand not only which projects to invest in but when to make the investment.
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Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Join an upcoming cohort
Cohort 2
$750
Dates
Payment Deadline