Course	Project Sponsorship
Audience	Project Managers, Sponsors, Senior Team Members
Series	Part of our Masters Series
Format	Public Seminar
Duration	2 Days
Date	November 8-9, 2007
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Why Should I Take This Course?

	Project Sponsorship Audit: Take this quick audit and see how well your organization stacks up in Sponsorship Effectiveness
	Ask Cadence Special with Randall Englund: Special edition podcast with seminar leader and author, "Do you know where your Sponsor is?"
	Excerpt from Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success
	"A Word from our Sponsors" Interview with Randall Englund, by Karen Klein.
	Managing Executives: Many project managers miss the opportunity to manage executives, by Alfonso Bucero.
	Project Sponsorship Survey: Take our 5-question survey on your project environment

All projects need an executive sponsor. Upper management support for projects consistently surfaces as a critical success factor. However, organizations often do not spend the time to understand what sponsorship is, why doing it better is important, and how to improve sponsorship performance. The Cadence Project Sponsorship seminar is designed to teach participants how to create an environment that achieves greater project prosperity as a result of excellence in project sponsorship.

Course Overview:

As a project sponsor, this seminar provides you with the knowledge, tools, and practices to be more effective in your sponsorship role. Get clear understanding about your roles and responsibilities to ensure that all projects achieve successful outcomes. As a project manager, this seminar provides you with the critical understanding of your sponsor's needs, and will help you create an effective sponsor relationship on your projects. This seminar is most effective when project managers and project sponsors attend together to prepare a joint action plan for project success.

 Course Outcomes:

• Understand what sponsorship is all about

• Define how sponsors impact project success

• Discover how to obtain the right sponsor

• Identify what sponsors need to know and “teach the old dog new tricks”

• Keep sponsors involved

• Extract learnings from case study examples

• Reap benefits from executive communications

• Make organizational culture work for you

• Explore the power of feedback

• Achieve excellence in project sponsorship

This Course Focuses On:

• Project Sponsorship: Why sponsorship is necessary? What is the value?

• Sponsor Responsibilities: Definition and Objectives, Problem Escalation, and Asking Questions

• Obtaining a Sponsor: Criteria, Negotiation, and the Project Sale

• Sustaining Sponsorship: Proactivity, Support, and Review

• Relationships: Steering Committees, Culture, Values, Execution and Feedback, and The Balanced Scorecard

• Sponsorship Development: Positioning and Curriculum

About the Seminar Leaders

Alfonso Bucero, PMP, is an independent consultant and founder, partner, and director of BUCERO PM Consulting in Spain. He is the author of Project Management - A New Vision, along with numerous papers in the field. Read more...

 

Randall L. Englund, NPDP, CBM, was a senior project manager at the Project Management Initiative at HP, a Project Office leading the continuous improvement of project management across the company. Currently, he is an executive consultant, preparing organizations on project culture. Read more...

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