How to get Fired at the C-level goes beyond the constraints of a book.
To that end the author offers some focused workshops, keynote presentations and insightful supporting education to help organisations achieve the success in strategic change that they desire, and to help C-level executives understand the challenge and benefit from the opportunity.
This is all about bringing a reality check to your executive team, and help can be found right here.
If your organisation or team needs a short sharp executive ‘scare’ session (or reality check) then Peter Taylor can deliver this, customised for your organisation, your executive team and the time available.
If you need to take it to the next level of detail, then the author offers two specific workshops based on his book.
Both can be customised to suit your audience’s needs and indeed, a fully customised engagement can be proposed if you feel your organisation requires something very specific in order to help you look at what you should be considering and doing to make sure your change, your projects, your organisation and you are still around for the foreseeable future.
Workshop 1: Executives – stop failing your projects!
Yes! You read that right – not ‘Executives – stop your failing projects’ but ‘Executives – stop failing your projects’.
The report Why good strategies fail: Lessons for the C-suite published by The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited in 2013 stated in its conclusion that there was a need for increased C-suite attention to implementation (and therefore projects). It said, ‘Leadership support is the most important factor in successful strategy execution, yet a substantial number of survey respondents indicate that the C-suite is insufficiently involved’.
This is why I make the loud and bold challenge that executives are failing their projects and why I strongly believe the situation needs to stop – now!
The workshop will explore the true value of your strategic change portfolio (projects) – which will probably be bigger than you think – and will explain why it, you and your organisation are at real risk of failure (and wasting a lot of that financial investment).
What you should do about this critical situation is, of course, explained simply. The two key actions you need to take to avoid strategic change failure will be introduced, making this undertaking far less onerous than it would have been had you attempted it solo.
Workshop time 1 to 3 hours[1]
Participants C-level executives and senior project leaders
Workshop 2: Two key actions you need to take to avoid strategic change failure
If you are concerned about strategic change failure, and by association your portfolio of projects, then there are two key actions that can dramatically de-risk this potential situation.
Step 1: Strategies for project sponsorship
It is stated in the Standish Chaos Report, amongst many others, including PMI’s ‘Pulse of the Profession’, that the sponsor is the person who is ultimately responsible for the success (or failure) of the project, who represents the business and the business change. And yet, there is a chasm in many organisations between this statement and the reality of the professionalism and associated investment in development of those active sponsors.
We will explore the current challenges of project sponsorship maturity and offer some techniques for creating an effective sponsorship community as one of the two foundations of project success.
Step 2: Building the best PMO
Here will explore the true value of a good PMO in guiding project success and supporting the sponsor community in the management of the portfolio of project change.
We explore what is meant by a balanced PMO, a design developed by Peter, as well as presenting a new working model for project management excellence with the project academy concept.
This all adds up to a critical second foundation for project success.
The workshop will be an interactive experience with first-hand case study insights and the opportunity to spend some time with one of the world’s most experienced PMO leaders.
Workshop time 2 to 3 hours[2]
Participants C-level executives, senior project leaders, sponsors and PMO leaders
The workshops are standalone but related and follow the journey from strategy investment through to the key foundations of change/project success.
Also available are keynote presentations based on this book, on project sponsorship and PMO leadership.
Peter Taylor
Known as The Lazy Project Manager, Peter Taylor is a project management office (PMO) expert.
He is currently leading a global team of more than 200 project managers acting as custodians for more than 5,000 projects around the world from Kronos Inc., a billion-dollar software organisation delivering workforce management solutions.
Peter is also the author of eighteen books, including the number 1 bestselling project management book, The Lazy Project Manager. In the last four years he has delivered more than 200 lectures around the world on his mission to show people how to work smarter, not harder in their quest for career success.
www.thelazyprojectmanager.com and http://tailwindps.com/how-to-get-fired-at-the-c-level/
[1] Workshop timing can be customised to the availability of the audience – the shorter workshop focuses only on the high-level issues with minimal interaction time permitted, the longer workshop allows for a ‘deeper dive’ and with audience interaction and discussion
[2] Again, here the workshop timing can be customised to the availability of the audience – with the longer workshop allowing for some audience interaction and discussion
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