More Project Performance Secrets

In More Project Performance Secrets, you'll learn ...

• Identify eleven reasons project performance fails to match the strategic potential
• Develop an effective blueprint for a pre-project presentation to executives with the greatest potential for success
• List five sure-fire ways to insure a proposal fails
• Identify three essentials for a successful proposal

Overview

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Credit: 3 CPD

Length: 0 pages

How many projects meet 100% of the performance expectations that were identified during the strategic planning process? Is even hitting 90% realistic or is the number closer to 80%? How about 70%?

An article in the July 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance, identified many reasons why companies typically only realize a little more than 60% of their strategies' potential value. This course builds on that article to help project leaders make sure they get the most performance out of the strategy which led to their project.

We will take a "here's-the-problem, here's-a-solution" approach to help students of this course not repeat common project mistakes and maximize the potential of their project's performance.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify eleven reasons project performance fails to match its strategic potential.
• Develop an effective blueprint for a pre-project presentation to executives with the greatest potential for success.
• Analyze five surefire ways to ensure a proposal fails.
• Evaluate three essentials for a successful proposal.
• Apply two different kinds of proposals.
• Specify ways to justify a proposal by saving time or money.
• Select and use "strong" words and phrases that will increase an executive's confidence in the project's potential as presented.
• Explain the budget impact of the proposal.
• Devise a strategy to overcome organizational silos that may block a project.
• Differentiate among strategies to overcome other organizational effects that may block project execution.
• Conduct a pre-project "postmortem" to identify potential challenges to the project.
• Calculate the effectiveness of three methods of brainstorming and collecting ideas from a group.
• Describe how to rapidly generate and rank a list with a group.
• Design a new strategy for dealing with project vendors that can help remove execution obstacles.
• Assess the three components essential for productivity.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.