Benefit from this proven system to strategically plan and execute your biggest opportunities, projects and strategic initiatives.

Strategic Project Management equips leaders and teams with powerful thinking tools and a step-by-step process for designing executable action plans for strategies at any level.

This proven process draws on the same Systems Thinking Approach_ concepts found in the Haines Centre’s ABC Approach to Reinventing Strategic Planning, and tailors them to projects and strategic initiatives.

This workshop will give you new ways to approach complex strategies, projects, issues and opportunities. You’ll learn to use a simple, yet sophisticated thinking tool called The Logical Framework—it helps teams set precise Objectives, define Success Measures and manage projects as ongoing learning systems and dynamic experiments. This workshop is ideal for fleshing out strategies (D—How do We get there?) identified during Strategic Planning using the Haines Centre’s Systems Thinking Approach™.

Learn to ask and answer four critical strategic project questions that guide you and your organization in developing a clear Logical Framework roadmap for smooth execution. Strategic Project Management offers a breakthrough process for planning and executing difficult projects or strategies, which involve multiple players and cross-functional teams. The concepts apply to diverse areas such as improving internal procedures, developing new systems, conducting technical analyses, leveraging quality improvement, implementing change initiatives and tackling situations where incremental learning is necessary to discover the best approach. This workshop draws from the breakthrough ideas in Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams (by Terry Schmidt, Wiley, 2009)

This system has assisted organizations achieve outstanding results in over 34 countries. It works– when you put it to work! After learning the concepts, you’ll develop a first-cut plan on a topic of your choice. You’ll walk away with a solid and insightful action plan you can use on the job.

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Workshop Objectives

• Answer the strategic question D. “How Do We Get There” by sharpening a cluster of linked action plans fleshed out with a robust systems thinking methodology.
• Learn to rapidly turn cross-functional task forces and other diverse groups into committed and effective teams through the Rapid Action Planning (RAP) process.
• Understand how Strategic Project Management overcomes the common difficulties that keep most strategies from succeeding.
• Learn to use a scientific approach to turn general Goals and strategies into concrete and effective project plans.
Learn a common vocabulary and powerful action tools that build consensus and common vision.
• Apply the key concepts of chunking, If-then logic, hypothesis formulation, Iceberg Model, Assumption testing, action—learning and the strategic action cycle.
• Apply the Iceberg Model of Change to Projects to build the project infrastructure and process that supports program level success.
• Learn to use the Logical Framework tool as a project-level Systems Thinking Approach™.
• Visibly align Objectives into testable strategic hypotheses that link to and support the higher strategy and key Goals.
• Elevate your focus above the tactical level to the strategic level. Develop an immediately useful action plan for a program, strategy, project, initiative, change effort or mess of your choice.

Benefits

• Synchronize strategies to impact the Qudadruple/Quintuple Bottom lines.
• Translate strategic intent into purposeful action.
• Ensure common understanding and consensus on strategic approach.
• Relate initiatives to the “big picture”—Goals, strategies and missions.
• Overcome the myopia of traditional project management.
• Eliminate preventable problems and reduce risk in advance.
• Consider all the key factors needed for success using systems thinking.
• Simultaneously build project plans and accountable project teams.
• Logically demonstrate strategic linkages and alignment up, down; and across the organization.
• Create a strong foundation for successful implementation

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What People Say About The Program

“Hits the nail on the head with fresh approaches to achieve essential goals.”
Philippe Goetschel, Director
Microsoft Corporation

“Gives you all the tools you need to jump start your projects at the speed of light.”
April Sanders, Senior Systems Engineer
Raytheon Corporation.

“Will elegantly guide your thinking about any reasonably complex goal you’re trying to guide achieve.”
David Allen, Author
Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Lots of management tools sound good in theory but are hard to apply. This approach helped our teams to start faster, think smarter, and get more done.”
Lynn Ballard, IT Security Manager
Beckman Coulter

“Gave our planners, managers, and analysts the tools and insight to successfully redirect a major process reengineering effort taking place in a rapidly changing IT landscape.”
Michael J. Greenhalgh, Supervisor
Sacramento Municipal Utility District

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