Project
RedShift Project Program
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Project leadership and alignment allows space, sharing and flexibility and defeats rigidity, control and withholding. It requires communication and relationship building skills and makes good use of user-friendly, simple, social collaboration tools.
What
- Re-frame and communicate process and goals so that everything continually re-connects to the ability to definitively answer, at each stage and milestone, the following question: is what we are developing, what is wanted and needed – nothing more, nothing less?
- Project evaluation, recommendations, communications facilitation and mentoring to align with business case, stake holder objectives and end-user needs and requirements; and to increase the probability of project success.
- Communication with project team ensuring "no surprises" because the right questions are asked.
- Re-focusing on the the business case and re-directing efforts on the desired results path.
- Stakeholder communications that gets buy-in, participation, support and willingness to change.
"Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes."
- John W. Gardner
Why?
- Program Directors: Not understanding stakeholder expectations and end user needs, is resulting in paralysis, costly revisions, resistance, fear of change and non-compliance.
- Project Leaders: Not asking the right questions means you're managing from the "what you don't know you don't know" knowledge zone.
- Project Managers: You find yourself so buried in spreadsheets, documentation, charts, meetings and email that you lose the big picture and purpose.
- Internal Communications: Different divisions have different project perspectives leading to insecurities, trust break-down, politics and power plays.
- Projects fail when change leadership, communications programs and alignment are missing or ignored. A red flag could be excessive early reliance on plans and functional specifications and minimal concern with the impact on people and culture.
- When buried in too much detail, project teams lose their sense of purpose and understanding of the business case for doing the project.
- Technical and business language barriers prevent clear communication and shared understanding with stakeholders, who then get blindsided when targets are missed and desired results are not achieved.
- People will tirelessly resist what they don't understand.
How
- The more tangible you can make it, the better the likelihood they will get it.
- So put the business and technical jargon, charts and diagrams aside and get the team focused on the end user experience.
- Stories, pictures, prototypes, user-interface screens...all are useful for bringing a project to life and getting people on board.
- Ground the project in reality instead of burying it in laborious detail.
Fees
Short Program - 20 Hours - 2 Week Period - $2500
Long Program - 40 Hours - 4 Week Period - $4000
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Project leadership and alignment allows space, sharing and flexibility and defeats rigidity, control and withholding. It requires communication and relationship building skills and makes good use of user-friendly, simple, social collaboration tools.