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Attention
New York Engineers:
This
course cannot be taken to fulfill your continuing education
requirements in the state of New York since the course does not
fall under the category of "Areas of Practice" or
"Law/Ethics". For more information, check the New
York State Board Requirements.
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Overview
How many projects meet
100% of the performance expectations that were identified during the
strategic planning process? Is even hitting 90% realistic or is the
number closer to 80%? How about 70%?
An article in the July 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review,
Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance, identified many reasons
why companies typically only realize a little more than 60% of their
strategies’ potential value. This course builds on that article to
help project leaders make sure they get the most performance out of the
strategy which led to their project.
We will take a “here’s-the-problem, here’s-a-solution” approach
to help students of this course not repeat common project mistakes and
maximize the potential of their project’s performance. This course
builds on the foundation provided in the previous PDHengineer course
entitled Project Performance Secrets”
To receive PDH credit,
the student must take a multiple choice quiz of thirty (30) questions.
Specific Knowledge
or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the
following specific knowledge and skills:
- Identify eleven
reasons project performance fails to match the strategic potential.
- Develop an effective
blueprint for a pre-project presentation to executives with the
greatest potential for success.
- List five sure-fire
ways to insure a proposal fails.
- Identify three
essentials for a successful proposal.
- Identify two
different kinds of proposals.
- Specify ways to
justify a proposal by saving time or money.
- Select and use
“strong” words and phrases that will increase an executives
confidence in the project’s potential as presented.
- Identify the budget
impact of the proposal.
- Devise a strategy to
overcome organizational silos that may block a project.
- Devise a strategy to
overcome other execution blocking effects from the organization.
- Conduct a
pre-project “post mortem” to identify potential challenges to
the project.
- Identify three
effective methods of brainstorming and collecting ideas from a
group.
- Rapidly generate and
rank-order a list with a group.
- Devise a new
strategy of dealing with project vendors that can help remove
execution obstacles.
- Identify the three
components essential for productivity.
Course
Click on the following
link to the PDF document to review the course material before taking the
quiz for credit.
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Project Performance Secrets
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