This course is offered in association with Canadian Management Centre (CMC)
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description and outline.
description and outline.
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Course Description
Train your mind to be more strategic and start making a difference in your organization!
Developing the strategic thinking competency is critical for both your business and leadership success. The ability to think strategically will help you make better decisions as a Project Manager, and is critical to being successful in the position of Program or Portfolio Manager.
This course will equip you with a framework as well as tips and techniques that can be applied to your daily workplace reality. As a result of attending, you will leave as a stronger and more confident strategic thinker.
Course Features
- Self-assessment providing insights into your strategic thinking strengths and areas for improvement
- Discussion touch-points to maximize the sharing of knowledge among participants
- Group activities applying creative brainstorming techniques
- Role play activities to reinforce techniques and behaviours in a safe environment where feedback and coaching are provided
Who Should Attend
- Project Sponsors
- Project Managers
- Program Managers
- Portfolio Managers
- Anyone who wants to advanced their career and prepare for more strategic roles
Course Materials
- Course workbook
- Certificate of completion
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the importance of thinking and leading strategically in your daily work
- Recognize how strategy lives within an organization
- Identify your strategic thinking strengths and areas for improvement
- Understand the four steps required to think strategically and learn to embed the 4-step framework into your daily work life
- Apply best practices to stop and reflect on the big picture before acting
- Articulate clearly the link between your business challenge and the overall strategy
- Use best practice techniques for thinking through a problem before acting
- Learn how to innovatively reframe when brainstorming
- Recognize actions you can take to strategically plan for your implementation
- Apply what you have learned to scenarios and/or your real-life situation
- Develop awareness of the skills required to think strategically in the workplace
- Strengthen your ability to explain how your decisions and actions align with your organization’s strategy
- Expand your toolbox of ways to creatively brainstorm solutions
- Recognize how to lead people more strategically
- Increase your competitiveness in the workplace
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.