Business Skills for Project Managers: Improve Your Focus, Credibility and Success

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
12 Jul 2026 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register
01 Nov 2026 Riyadh, KSA $ 3,900 Register

Business Skills for Project Managers: Improve Your Focus, Credibility and Success

Introduction

This intermediate-level course goes beyond the basics of project management to deliver higher levels of management performance for you, your project sponsors, your boss, and your organization. Use business practices that drive projects like thriving businesses, to superior bottom-line results. Connect with executives by speaking their language. Think, decide, and act like a CEO – and develop your own credibility and success.

Objectives

    • Effectively engage upper management by associating projects to business goals, values and performance factors
    • Be recognized for creating corporate shareholder value
    • Generate consistent and positive, bottom-line results
    • Elevate your career with business-enabling skills
    • Credibly communicate with business executives
    • Realize practical solutions to real-work projects

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

Project managers, managers, and professionals who understand the basics of project management.

Course Outline

  • How to address company growth, shareholder value, market share, profitability, cost-containment and other primary business drivers
  • To align your project to financial, marketing and strategic goals
  • To support other corporate strategies and enable strategic competitive advantages
  • How to connect your project to high impact interests of your corporate customers
  • Leveraging the key elements of accounting, finance and economics
  • Marketing and promotion of your project in relation to other corporate projects
  • To combine logic and creativity towards innovative corporate results
  • The value of advancing the corporate benefits of organizational change
  • Management of corporate resources as if you are the CEO

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