Leadership for Strategic Execution (Stanford Advanced Project Management)

The Graduate School USA, in collaboration with the Stanford Center for Professional Development, now offers a Certificate Program in Advanced Project Management (Stanford Advanced Project Management - SAPM).

Leadership for Strategic Execution
As the capstone course in the Stanford Advanced Project Management curriculum, this course addresses the crucial role that leadership plays in achieving better organizational performance in today's dynamic global environment.
Organizations stand or fall on their ability to execute strategy effectively. Has your company already tried implementing initiatives like Six Sigma, BalancedScorecard, ERP,JIT, TQM, CMM, BPM, CRM, OPM3, or other spoonfuls of management alphabetsoup —without seeing effective results? Perhaps your long-term strategies aren't getting the sustained leadership that they need to succeed because of the urgencies of day-to-day business.

Leadership for Strategic Execution is an intensive, three-day course that helps develop skills in critical areas of providing leadership to teams of people who translate strategy into effective results. The concepts presented are reinforcedthrough simulations, videos, demonstrations, structured exercises, andgroup laboratories.

You obtain a clear understanding of the leadership role and how best to use it strategically. You learn how you can be an effective leader, whether for making strategic decisions, translating strategy, assessing risk, establishing sponsorship, or managing change within your organization. Leave the course - and the program - with an in-depth appreciation for the critical context leaders must provide to create the optimum level of performance through portfolio, program, and projectmanagement.

This course is designed for all professionals who are responsible for strategic management: mid- to senior-level managers, project, program, and portfolio managers, and team members. This course has no prerequisites, but completing Converting Strategy Into Action course is highly recommended.