Queen's Project Leadership Program

Managing Projects to Exceed Objectives and Minimize Risk

This intensive, 2-day session will enable you to create an optimal project environment and to effectively lead a project organization. Project Management has become much more integrated with day-to-day operations. All areas of the firm must be familiar with the leadership tactics that drive well-run, progressive project environments.

Location	Date
Calgary	Dec 8 to Dec 9, 2009

Fees

$1950 (plus GST)

The program will enable you to:

• Create an effective project strategy and environment
• Strengthen the links between project teams and the rest of the organization
• Manage risk and accelerate projects to meet or exceed objectives
• Increase project visibility with key stakeholders across the organization

Who attends?

This program is designed for managers and executives who are charged with leading projects and project groups in an organizational or global environment.

Personal Benefits

The Program will provide concepts and tools to enable you to make more informed, fact-based management decisions.

• Become a more effective project team leader
• Manage project organizations to meet or exceed expectations
• Implement best practices to overcome project obstacles and manage risk
• Increase project visibility across the organization

Organizational Benefits

• Complete major projects on time and on budget
• Create organizational synergies
• Establish an execution culture that permeates the entire organization
• Know when and how to kill projects

Program Structure and Content

Topics

The Program is built around three themes

Creating an Effective Project Environment

• Understanding risks and uncertainty and using appropriate project management approaches to deal with them
• Creating high-performance project teams and establishing an execution orientation that permeates the entire organization
• Managing the surrounding organization influences, including organizational structure, politics, culture and policies

Leading the Project Execution Environment

• Aligning project governance with business objectives
• Implementing a flexible and iterative approach
• Keeping projects on track and gaining top management support
• Evaluating project status and knowing when and how to kill projects

Managing the Global Project Environment

• Understanding the enterprise environmental factors that influence the project environment
• Recognizing the obstacles in the international business environment and design an effective global project communication infrastructure
• Transferring project resources to operations through lessons learned, effective implementation and training

Session Leaders

Dr. Kathryn Brohman - Queen's School of Business

Kathryn Brohman joined Queen's School of Business from the University of Georgia. She is an authority on project management net-based customer service systems and data strategy. Her work has been published in numerous journals including the Harvard Business Review. She has been very active in her professional career, consulting with several leading organizations including Bank of Montreal, UPS, Delta Airlines, and the Canadian Football League.

Mr. Barry Cross - Queen's School of Business

Barry Cross is an expert on innovation, execution and project management. He joined Queen's School of Business after 17 years in the automotive and manufacturing sectors with Magna International, DuPont and Autosystems Manufacturing, where he worked with a number of clients including GM, Chrysler and Ford's Premier Automotive Group. He led many key strategic initiatives including nearly 30 product launches and offshore relationships in Asia, Latin America and Europe. His speaking and consulting clients include Shoppers Drug Mart, LG, Canada Post, Enbridge and Export Development Canada.