Develop Your Skills as a Program Manager

Now that you've mastered project management, you're ready for the next challenge: program management. From leadership to strategic business and cross-functional skills, this learning path can help you acquire the skills to become an exceptional program manager.

Explore and develop key program management skills.
Get technical know-how that applies directly to the role.
Master your leadership and communication skills.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: What Is Program Management?
-Learn about the basics of program management, exploring how applying the roles, approach, and activities can add value to your organization.

Course 2: Program Management Foundations
-Learn how to succeed as a program manager. Get specific guidance on managing program phases, carrying out a transition, closing a program, and more.

Course 3: Leadership Foundations
-Learn what it takes to lead with confidence, integrity, and agility. Explore the critical skills and competencies that drive value in organizations and inspire top performance.

Course 4: Communication within Teams
-Learn how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams. Discover how to establish a team charter, communicate in different settings, and more.

Course 5: Essentials of Team Collaboration
-Learn clear and proven strategies for effective team collaboration. Discover specific activities and techniques to improve communication and avoid common mishaps.

Course 6: Negotiation Foundations
-Learn core negotiation skills to get win-win outcomes every time.

Course 7: Project Manager to Project Motivator: Unlock the Secrets of Strengths-Based Project Management
-Learn to use your influence as a project manager for great project results. Discover the difference between managing and motivating and learn to build a culture of appreciation.

Course 8: Managing Resources Across Project Teams
-Learn the fundamentals of resource management, and discover how to plan your resource requirements for a number of projects all competing for the same resources.

Course 9: Project Management: International Projects
-Learn techniques for improving collaboration and communication in settings where team players are separated by culture, language, and distance.

Course 10: Creating a Program Strategy
-Learn how to create a program strategy that aligns with corporate objectives, define a program vision statement, and determine the target operating model for the program.

Course 11: Project Resource Management
-Define, acquire and manage the right resources at the right time. Tune in to get tips, guidance, and a step-by-step process for managing resources through the project life cycle.

Taught by

Michael Boyle, Claudine Peet, Hubbert Smith, Chris Croft, Bonnie Biafore, Bonnie Biafore, John Riopel, John Riopel, Bonnie Biafore, John Riopel, Robbie Kellman Baxter, Sam Yankelevitch, Dr. Shirley Davis, Brenda Bailey-Hughes, Daisy Lovelace, John Ullmen, PhD, Mike Figliuolo, Britt Andreatta, PhD, Lisa Gates and John H. Johnson