Live Webinar – April 14th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

The Project Sponsor’s role on a  project is the single most critical predictor of project success!

That said, many if not most Project Sponsors have no idea what they are supposed to be doing.

Imagine Captain Pickard from Star Trek – “Make it so!”

That’s the extent of the contribution for most organizational Sponsors. It’s up to you as the Project Manager to cultivate the Project Sponsor.  For you project to be successful, you must make sure the Project Sponsor is successful.

In this webinar, Lou will share with you research and strategies that will help you influence up.

After attending, you’ll be able to:

• Leverage the fact that Trust is Bi-directional and grow both ends
• Identify and implement critical pre-requisites prior to cultivating your Sponsor
• Clarify and build a strong knowledge of what a Project Sponsor expects and needs from both a business and personal position
• Clarify and build a strong base with knowledge of what strengths and blind spots you bring to the relationship

As always, you will learn, share, draw, comment, laugh and grow with this new session from Lou Russell.

Presenter: Lou Russell (LinkedIn profile) is President and CEO of L+EARN and Russell Martin & Associates. Lou delivers learning experiences that are fun, flexible, fast and measurable. She believes that learning and earning go hand in hand and focuses on faculty development, retention and recruitment of students, project management, leadership and organizational learning opportunities. Lou is the author of The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook and IT Leadership Alchemy, Project Management for Trainers, Training Triage: Performance-Based Solutions Amid Chaos, Confusion, and Change, and her newest book 10 Steps to Successful Project Management. A popular speaker, Lou addresses national and international conferences such as the Career College Association, ACCET, Training 2008, Project Management Institute, Project World, LotuSphere, ASTD and the Society of Information Management (SIM).

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholders

• 10.1 Plan Communications Management
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.2 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Cultivating A Project Sponsor