PM Skills: Expanding Focus and Alignment

Expand your project vision and alignment skills. Learn to maintain focus, adapt strategies, and align teams with project objectives. Elevate your project leadership by ensuring everyone is on the same page, driving collective success.Course Duration:3 hoursCredits:CEU Credits: 1AMA PCM CEU Credits: 0PDU Credits: 10HRCI Credits: 10SHRM Credits: 10CFRE Credits: 0ATD CI Credits: 10ACE Credits: 0 Course Description A project consists of many moving parts—people, resources, materials, and timelines, just to name a few. All of these parts connect and influence each other, and, as the project leader, it's your job to ensure that all of the parts come together in the right way to achieve a specific goal. But, as many project leaders know, it's never as simple as moving from point A to point B; projects are messy and nonlinear, so leaders need tools that will help them align project elements and see the bigger picture. Systems thinking provides a framework for better understanding the complex and ever-changing parts of a project. This methodology helps you think of your project as an interrelated part of the larger puzzle that your organization will use to meet its objectives. It allows you to look beyond the boundaries of your project to see how factors outside those boundaries interact with the things inside (and vice versa). And it helps you expand your focus to see how your project results fit into the overall scheme of your organization. Learning Outcomes Define systems thinking Identify key system elements Differentiate between open and closed systems Recognize positive and negative feedback loops Identify strategies for visualizing complex systems Describe methods of assessing a project system Recognize common system elements Identify system leverage points Recognize the key elements required for effective leadership and project coordination in complex systems Testimonials