Sixth Sense Executive Presence Overview (2009 Offering Only)
Creating Personal Power
For project managers and others who facilitate change, effective communication and strong relationships with executives are critical to project success. Executive Presence is about using specific tools (skills) to build and sustain relationships with executives. Research connects the use of these skills to a project’s success. This interactive seminar will help participants develop and apply these skills immediately.
What Is Executive Presence And Why Is It Important?
Learn what it means to have an “executive presence” and how it can improve project performance. Discover how this knowledge will help you lead your team and engage the executives of your organization. Executive Presence is the ability to be self-aware, situationally aware, and to know what to do with the information that you receive from this awareness.
In this training seminar, we will also cover the following topics…
- What does the PMBOK® say about executive presence?
- Statistics tying lack of executive presence to many project failures
- Implications from PMI's recent study Researching the Value of Project Management
- Full day events - 8 PDUs
- 2 day events - 16 PDUs
Sixth Sense Disciplines Addressed
Step 1: Self- Awareness
Learn what it means to have an “executive presence” and how it can improve project performance. Measure yourself against the key criterion of executive presence. Discover how this knowledge will help you lead your team and engage the executives of your organization.
Step 2: Situational Awareness
Learn how to be sensitive to the environment around you. How can you tie projects to corporate strategy? How can you decipher what's going on in the board room and determine how it might relate to your project?
Step 3: Ability to Adapt
A PMP will pull it all together by discussing the ability to adapt and its impact on forging relationships.
Key Skills Developed
• Understanding Executive Presence
• Process for cataloging skills/capabilities
• Understanding situational awareness and how to
use to your advantage
• Ability to adapt
Other Information
This course addresses the following key process groups and knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide:
PMBOK® Guide Process Groups:
• Planning Process Group
• Executing Process Group
• Monitoring & Controlling Process Group
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas
• Project Management Integration
• Project Communications Management
• Project Human Resource Management
PMBOK is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.