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Leading Project Teams for Strategic Results

Leading strategic projects effectively requires a combination of skills: designing and executing strategies, managing relationships and evaluating results. The most successful project managers balance these contrasting capabilities while balancing competing demands within the organization.

This engaging and highly interactive two-day program is designed for experienced project managers who strive to become more effective in conveying vision, coping with complexity and energizing people to achieve important goals.

This two-day program will help you build essential project management skills.

(NOTE: This program has limited seats so please register early. If the program session becomes full, you will be notified if you must be placed on the waitlist.)

What You Will Learn:

You’ll learn ideas and techniques you can apply right away, including:

  • How to energize teams and lead projects that deliver results
  • Strategies for motivating and communicating effectively with teams and managing conflict
  • Understanding how to ask the right questions upfront
  • Skills to develop and implement comprehensive project plans, performance outcome measurements and project closing and learning
  • Tactics and practices that build and maintain stakeholder support
  • Methods for establishing and effectively managing contractual relationships

Who Should Attend:

  • Those aspiring to be more effective project leaders.

Length of Program

2 Days

Continuing Education Units

1.5 Units

Cost

$1,980
Cost includes tuition, instructional materials, continental breakfast and lunch (all days).

Location

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, TN

What Participants Say

This program gives a concise review of key elements to make future projects successful and provides valuable instruction that goes beyond PM methodology in leadership and strategy.

[This course] is a MUST DO for project leadership.

The interactive framework of the course really allowed me to learn from my classmates.

Scheduled Dates

Tue, Jun 25 to Wed, Jun 26, 2013

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Meet Your Instructor

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Nancy Hyer

Associate Professor of Operations Management; Associate Dean of Academic Programs

Nancy Hyer is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. Nancy earned her MBA and Ph.D. from Indiana University and holds a BS from the University of Richmond. At Owen, Nancy teaches executive and MBA classes focused on project management and process improvement. Nancy has also taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has won executive program, Executive MBA, and MBA teaching awards, and both school and university-wide awards for excellence in undergraduate education. She won the 2009 best paper award from the Journal of Operations Management for a study co-authored with a faculty member from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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Karen Brown

Professor of Operations and Project Leadership at Thunderbird School of Global Management

Karen Brown is a member of the faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, and a visiting professor at the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai, where she spends two months each year. She is currently on an educational leave of absence from the University of Washington. In addition to her role as a faculty member teaching M.B.A. and E.M.B.A. classes, she has consulted and led seminars for numerous private- and public-sector organizations, including Boeing, PACCAR, POSCO Steel, Mosaic, Emerson Electric, Sony, Philips, Seattle City Light, Seattle Public Library, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and the Army Corps of Engineers.