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How to Successfully Lead a PMO

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Overview

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Discover best practices for leading a new PMO. Explore ways to communicate more effectively, demonstrate the benefits of the PMO, lead strategic initiatives, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Steering your growing PMO
1. Leading Projects
  • Managing the standards, governance, and execution
  • Overseeing projects, programs, and portfolios
  • Working with risks, issues, and change requests
2. Leading Strategy
  • Aligning the PMO with organizational goals
  • PMOs leading strategic initiatives
  • Annual budget, work intake, and project portfolio prioritization
3. Leading Change
  • PMO as the change management facilitator
  • Overcoming organizational resistance to change
  • Challenge: Engaging challenging stakeholders
  • Solution: Engaging challenging stakeholders
4. Leading Communication
  • Importance of storytelling and leveraging storytelling tools
  • Showcasing the benefits of PMO
  • Challenge: Presenting to executives
  • Solution: Presenting to executives
5. Leading the Team
  • Hiring for your growing team
  • Retooling and upskilling
  • Building a community for your team
  • Challenge: Hiring your next project manager
  • Solution: Hiring your next project manager
Conclusion
  • Conquering your PMO challenges

Taught by

Hussain Bandukwala

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