Aligning Work with Strategy

Aligning Work with Strategy sensitizes participants to the mindset necessary to think and act strategically as they lead and execute work in their organizations. Attendees focus on the mutually supportive skills of translating the larger organizational strategy to their own work and architecting their own strategies for executing this work. Additionally, participants learn the importance of having a strategic frame of reference that maintains alignment of strategy with the critical domains of work and people to enable effective execution.​

Learning objectives

• Describe global trends that make today’s work environments different.​
• Explain the importance of translating and aligning project-based work to organizational strategy.​
• Identify areas of misalignment in your organization and team that impede strategic execution. ​
• Utilize a framework model to identify domains that must be aligned to improve chances of project and program success.​
• Assure that project-based work success serves the goals of the organization.​
• Architect the alignment of necessary elements for strategy execution.​
• Translate the organization’s strategy to the work of the department, team and individual.​

Behavioral competencies

• Being resilient​
• Business insight​
• Courage​
• Drives vision and purpose​
• Global perspective​
• Instills trust​
• Manages ambiguity & complexity​
• Organizational savvy​
• Resourcefulness​
• Situational adaptability​
• Strategic mindset​
  

Skills

• Commercial acumen​
• Organization design and development​
• Performance management process design​
• Policy development and implementation​
• Project benefits management​
• Project business acumen​
• Project strategy creation and alignment​
• Strategic planning​

PDUs

• Onsite instructor-led: 3 days - 21
• Virtual instructor-led: 3 days - 21
• Digital/E-learning: 21