Introduction
This training course develops the strategic, technical and leadership capabilities required to translate organisational priorities into successful project outcomes. Projects increasingly serve as vehicles for implementing strategy, improving performance and delivering organisational change. Project professionals therefore need more than traditional planning and control skills: they must understand the wider business context, make sound decisions, influence stakeholders and create the conditions in which project teams can perform successfully.
This highly practical training course integrates strategic planning, business performance, project governance, project management and leadership into one coherent approach. Participants progress from understanding organisational strategy and identifying improvement opportunities through project initiation, planning, execution, review and closure. Alongside these disciplines, they develop emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder engagement, leadership presence, team development and mentoring capabilities. This creates project leaders who can manage delivery while maintaining focus on business value, people, relationships and sustainable organisational results.
This training course will highlight:
- Connecting organisational strategy with project priorities
- Integrating project management and leadership capabilities
- Leading business improvement and organisational change
- Strengthening project governance, planning and control
- Developing high-performing teams and stakeholder relationships
Objectives
At the end of this training course, participants will learn to:
- Align projects with organisational strategy and performance
- Lead projects through initiation, planning and delivery
- Apply effective project governance and control
- Develop high-performing project teams and relationships
- Integrate strategic, technical and leadership capabilities
Training Methodology
This training course will use a highly interactive and participative approach combining facilitator presentations, structured discussions, practical exercises, project scenarios and case-based activities. Participants will integrate strategic planning, project management and leadership concepts throughout the programme, applying them to project decisions, stakeholder challenges, delivery issues and team situations. The methodology will encourage practical application, reflection and transfer of learning to participants' own project environments.
Both existing programmes specify interactive adult-learning approaches, with the strategy/project review course using case studies, videos, discussions and practical project simulations and the leadership course emphasising interactive and participative learning.
Organisational Impact
The Organisation will have the following benefits:
- Stronger alignment of projects with strategy
- Improved project governance and decision-making
- More effective project planning and control
- Stronger project leadership and accountability
- Improved stakeholder and team collaboration
- Greater organisational learning from projects
Personal Impact
At the end of this training course, participants will gain:
- Greater strategic and commercial perspective
- Stronger project leadership capabilities
- Improved judgement and decision-making skills
- Greater emotional intelligence and self-awareness
- More effective stakeholder communication skills
- Increased confidence in leading teams
Who should Attend?
This training course is designed for professionals responsible for leading, managing, supporting or assuring projects and organisational change. It is particularly valuable for experienced technical and project professionals seeking to broaden their contribution from managing project activities to leading projects within their wider strategic and business context.
This training course will greatly benefit:
- Project Managers and Project Leaders
- Programme Managers and Project Sponsors
- Project Engineers and Technical Specialists
- Project Controls and Assurance Professionals
- Functional and Operational Managers
- Business Improvement and Change Professionals
- Project Support and Governance Professionals
- Professionals preparing for project leadership roles
Connecting Strategy, Business Performance and Project Leadership
Understanding what the organisation needs and how project leaders create value.
- Connecting vision, mission and strategy to project priorities
- Business performance management and the Balanced Scorecard
- Key project terms and the project lifecycle
- Moving from project manager to project leader: integrating technical and relational skills
- Expanding strategic perspective and considering the wider business context
- Developing self-awareness and practising emotional intelligence
- Applying a structured thought process to improve decisions
- Establishing leadership credibility and executive presence
- Defining project success: delivery, business outcomes, team performance and client value
Leading Business Improvement, Change and Project Initiation
Turning an improvement opportunity into a justified project with clear ownership.
- Lean project management: value, waste and continuous improvement
- Business Process Re-engineering: principles, benefits and appropriate applications
- Re-engineering stages: analysing current processes and designing future processes
- Process mapping and identifying opportunities for innovation
- Leading organisational change and responding to resistance
- Project governance, roles, responsibilities and decision authority
- Identifying stakeholders and understanding their expectations
- Developing the business case, project mission and initiation documentation
- Using strategic thinking and thought leadership to challenge assumptions and build support
- Stage Gate 1: reviewing the justification and readiness to proceed
Planning Delivery and Building a Successful Team
Creating a credible delivery plan and the conditions for people to succeed.
- Developing an integrated project management plan
- Defining requirements, scope, deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Translating scope into activities, dependencies, schedules and milestones
- Planning resources, responsibilities and team coordination
- Identifying, assessing and responding to project risks
- Improving decisions under uncertainty and balancing competing priorities
- Understanding the objectives of project leadership and the limits of formal authority
- Developing teams through emotional intelligence, trust and clear expectations
- Recognising talent and using mentoring to develop future project leaders
- Stage Gate 2: reviewing the plan, delivery readiness and team capability
Leading Execution, Communication and Performance Control
Keeping delivery on track while maintaining confidence, commitment and relationships.
- Reviewing delivery from requirements through implementation
- Monitoring business and project performance against agreed measures
- Project reporting and Earned Value Management
- Conducting project reviews and audits
- Managing project changes and their implications for delivery and benefits
- Maintaining stakeholder engagement and productive client relationships
- Communicating decisions, concerns and corrective action clearly
- Understanding how body language is perceived by others
- Aligning body language with the message and making a positive first impression
- Establishing leadership presence through confidence, warmth and empathy
Integrating Leadership, Closing Projects and Sustaining Results
Bringing the skills together and ensuring that learning and value continue beyond delivery.
- Integrated simulation: applying strategic, technical and relational skills
- Making decisions that balance business priorities, client needs and team results
- Sustaining emotional intelligence and constructive relationships under pressure
- Coaching, mentoring and developing future leaders
- Confirming acceptance, handover and operational readiness
- Project closure and transition of responsibilities
- Post-project reviews and evaluating results against success criteria
- Capturing lessons learned and translating them into improvement actions
- Reviewing business outcomes and assigning ownership for ongoing benefits
- Personal action planning: expanding perspective and committing to people, relationships and performance
- Upon successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates. Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
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