How to be a Great Executive Sponsor
This three-hour course provides key tips and techniques for becoming an actively engaged, and impactful, Executive Sponsor of projects and programs. It will explain not just what your role is, but the very specific actions you can, and must, take to increase your project's probability of success.
This three-hour course provides key tips and techniques for becoming an actively engaged, and impactful, Executive Sponsor of projects and programs. It will explain not just what your role is, but the very specific actions you can, and must, take to increase your project's probability of success. And, it will highlight the key personality and other traits that are found in successful Sponsors. Regardless if you're sponsoring an Agile software development project, a construction megaproject, or any other type of project in between, this course will help get you 'hit the ground running' and being an 'impact player' on day one. Various activities and discussions will acquaint you with this important role and what you need to do to become a great executive sponsor.
What you Will Learn
At the end of this program, you will be able to:
Define project success so everyone is 'singing from the same sheet of music'
Immediately apply the ten key attributes of a great sponsor on your project
Recognize great sponsorship and determine if you're the right fit for the role
Practice Sponsorship over the course of the project life cycle by engaging in very specific actions and activities
Be a better investment manager by analyzing the behaviors of successful activist investors
Foundation Concepts
The quantifiable benefits of being an actively engaged Sponsor
Sponsor defined
Clarence Kelly Johnson and the SR-71 Blackbird: An example of the power of Sponsorship
Defining Project Success
Project success: More than meeting the triple constraints
Benefits management: The Sponsor's focus
The Investment - Life-cycle vs. the Project Life-cycle
The three questions Sponsors need to ask to define project success
10 Key Attributes of a Great Sponsor
10 Key Attributes of a Great Sponsor
The Makings of a Great Sponsor
The most important skills and competencies of an executive sponsor
What great Sponsors do and when
Four Things a Great Sponsor Can Learn from an Activist Investor
The story of Outerwall, Inc. and Glen Welling of Engaged Capital, LLC
Sponsors and Activist Investors
Sponsorship of the 2nd Avenue Subway in Manhattan: A classic textbook example