The Executive Soft Skills Workshop

 

Day One

  • Establishing Our Leadership Vision
  • Leading Our Teams to Success
  • Assessing Our Potential to Succeed
  • Mastering Our Program Strategy

Day Two

  • Clarifying All Expectations
  • Mapping Our Road to Success
  • Making the Transition from Technology to Business Solution
  • Inspiring Our Program Team
  • Questioning and Answering

 

 

FOCUS: MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

Duration: Two Days

Workshop Description

We designed this workshop to guide your transformation to Enterprise Program Management. We clarify the impacts of management vision on team success and provide an innovative framework for executive success in leading complex enterprise systems projects. We assess program level Executive Leadership from the strategic perspective as a dynamic process enabled by emerging management thinking and group practice. We progress from vision building and team assessment to design an executive charter to implement an enterprise systems solution for optimum results. We assess the rationale driving the Program Management approach as an action lever for reducing unnecessary project conflicts, closing responsibility gaps, enhancing team performance, and improving profitability of the technology transition solution. We explore the hidden environment roadblocks and address the organization and psychological issues which negatively impact team work in the organization environment.

Objectives

The objective is to develop an Executive Level, management team-based path and strategy to succeed given the constraints of culture, project history, complexity, costs, technology, time, expectations, resistance, and under-conceptualizations.

  • Crystalize the Program Vision and Mission to Manage Upward.
  • Develop a Leadership Strategy for Team Success.
  • Assess the Program’s Potential to Succeed.
  • Master the Program Strategy and Plans.
  • Clarify all Program Expectations.
  • Map the Management Road to Success.
  • Transition from Technology Thinking to Business Success.
  • Inspire Teams to Excel in a Cross-Functional Program Environment.

You Will Learn How To

Become an Exceptional Leader and Program Manager by:

  • Articulating a Workable Vision to Put the Program on a Business Basis.
  • Clarifying the Program Mission and Producing a Realistic Charter.
  • Improving the Performance of the Team and Leadership Processes.
  • Identifying All Expectations of Program Stakeholders.
  • Paving a Realistic Road to Success in a Multicultural Work Environment.
  • Leveraging the Leadership Capacities to Improve Group Performance.
  • Developingwerful Program Management Socialization Techniques by.
  • Identifying the source of team success.
  • Balancing the sources of power, influence, and change to avoid hidden conflict.
  • Resolving intergroup conflict for better results; dynamics.
  • Differentiating the expectations of leaders from team members.
  • Integrating leadership facilitation, managerial combination, and corporate culture.
  • Managing communications to overcome the Group Think Tragedy.
  • Linking corrective emotional experience to project plans to obtain expected results.

Form exceptional groups, teams, and systems to achieve the highest level of performance attainable by:

  • Assessing the Current Situation for Action.
  • Linking the Program to the Corporate Business Strategy.
  • Identifying and Leveraging the Program’s Primary Advantages.
  • Assessing the Range of Cultural Diversity in Teams.
  • Defusing Potential Team Problems.
  • Opening the Window of Opportunity.
  • Identifying the CSFs and CFFs of Each Team.

Who Should Attend

  • The Senior Executive Manager of the Enterprise Program.
  • The Top Senior Managers Reporting Directly to the Senior Executive/Program Manager.
  • Other Personnel Invited by the Senior Executive Manger Including Those Concerned with Program Strategy, Vision Building, Chartering, Mission Management and Maintenance.
  • Project Managers Responsible for Improving Project Productivity
  • The Senior Senior Executive Manager of the Enterprise Program.

Day One: Building Our Framework for Success

Module One: Establishing Our Leadership Vision

  • Defining Our Enterprise Program
  • Identifying the Impacts to Our Management Life
  • Understanding Our Brave New World
  • Assessing the Business Rationale Compelling the Program
  • Assessing Our Business Rationale
  • Assessing Our Expanded Team Rationale
  • Assessing What We Can Do For Our Team
  • Assessing What Our Team Can Do For Us
  • Assessing What Executive Management Can Do For Us
  • Finalizing Our Executive Vision for the Program
  • Communicating Our Charter Up, Sideways, & Down

Module Two: Leading Our Team To Success

  • Identifying the Motivations of Our Teams
  • Designing Success Strategies for Our Teams
  • Defining Expectations Both Ways
  • Identifying The CSFs of Each Team
  • Defining the CFFs for Each Team
  • Building Confidence Here, There, & Everywhere
  • Determining the Readiness for Change
  • Determining My Management Style
  • Determining My Leadership Style Following to Lead

Module Three: Assessing Our Potential to Succeed

  • Assessing the Current Situation for Action
  • Opening Our Window of Opportunity
  • Leveraging Our Primary Advantage
  • Leveraging Our Direct and Indirect Opponents
  • Focusing Our Schedules, Constraints, & Budgets
  • Linking to the Corporate Business Strategy
  • Assessing Our Success Potential

Module Four: Mastering Our Program Strategy

  • Defining the Systems Strategy for Today’s Business Climate
  • Assessing the Business Environment
  • Moving from the Old 7-S Competitive Model to the New
  • Determining Our Role in Corporate Strategy Building
  • Visualizing the Backup Strategy Just-in-Case
  • Workshop Exercises

Day Two: Paving Our Road To Success

Module Five: Clarifying All Expectations

  • Solving the C-A-T-W-O-E Problem
  • Wisely Managing Upward on a Business Basis
  • Assessing the Expectations from Above
  •  Protecting Our Right to Succeed
  •  Managing the Conflicting Expectations of Nearly Everyone
  • Making the Best of Our One Big Chance

Module Six: Mapping Our Road to Success

  • Understanding Immediate Versus Deferred Recognition
  • Mastering the Law of Program Success
  • Uncovering the Hidden Agenda All Around
  • Expecting No Free Lunch
  • Pacing the Years to Glory
  • Listening to Your Feelings
  • Assessing Your Authentic Capabilities
  • Realizing Software is not Hardware

Module Seven: Making the Transition from Technology to Business Success

  • Mastering Our Life by Controlling Time
  • Living Our Governing Values to Experience Professional Fulfillment
  • Shattering Our Comfort Zones to Leap-Frog Failure
  • Living Our Beliefs on the Job
  • Aligning Our Beliefs with Program Reality
  • Leading To Fail
  • Mastering The Five Myths of Superior Management

Module Eight: Inspiring Our Program Team

  • Sharing Success, or Encouraging Failure
  • Excelling in the Cross-Functional Program Environment
  • Nurturing the Ten Golden Rules of Failure
  • Establishing the Value of Leadership
  • Learning from the Admiral Perry Folly to Overcome Leadership Shortsightedness

Module Nine: Questioning and Answering