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Become a Program Manager

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Overview

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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.
  • Practice technical skills that directly apply to the program manager role.
  • Master leadership and communication skills related to program management.

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

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: Organization Communication
-Learn the dynamics of successful organizational communication, so you can communicate and lead more effectively.

Course 5: Business Development Foundations
-Explore the role and goals of business development, and learn how to launch, scale, and manage a business development team, as well as how to excel as an individual contributor.

Course 6: 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 7: Data Analytics for Business Professionals
-Learn how to use data analytics to make better decisions and gain competitive advantage as a business professional.

Course 8: Negotiation Foundations
-Learn core negotiation skills to get win-win outcomes every time.

Course 9: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
-Get concrete techniques for boosting your emotional quotient (EQ) to better lead teams, work with peers, and manage up.

Course 10: Building High-Performance Teams
-Discover how to accelerate your team's performance.

Course 11: Influencing Others
-Learn how to increase your influence and visibility in your organization.

Course 12: 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 13: Learning Program Management
-Learn the essentials of program management, from planning programs to delivering results. Find out how to manage a program's scope, finances, resources, schedules, and more.

Course 14: 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 15: Program Management for IT Professionals
-Successfully manage large IT projects—from the planning stages to a project's release—by learning the basics of program management.

Course 16: 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 17: Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project
-Learn how to manage projects with time constraints and fast-track schedules with Microsoft Project.

Course 18: 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.

Course 19: Learning Microsoft Project
-Get up to speed quickly with Microsoft Project. Learn just the essentials you need to know to create projects, add tasks, assign resources, and run reports.

Courses

Taught by

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

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