Project Management for Sponsors

Engage sponsors to understand and appreciate their role in supporting the project.

Sponsors are the key stakeholder in nearly every project. Yet project sponsors often go through their careers without knowing what sponsorship means, except perhaps to approve the budget. However, engaged sponsorship is a differentiator between project success and failure.

Participants will obtain a more comprehensive perspective of the:

  • Art of managing projects
  • Role of sponsorship in project management
  • Relationship between the project sponsor and project manager
  • Critical questions and activities a sponsor perform--throughout the project lifecycle--to ensure delivery of quality projects on time, within budget, and ahead of the competition

At-a-glance

Delivery: Instructor-Led Training
(Virtual or On-site)

Course Length: Virtual: 4 hours; On-site: ½ day

Professional Development Units (PDUs): 4 (2 Ways of Working, 2 Power Skills)

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Key Outcomes

  • Describe the foundations of a project management culture
  • Articulate the value of project management as it relates to the organization
  • Identify the characteristics of managing projects from a strategic perspective
  • Define the role and responsibilities of an effective Sponsor
  • Contrast the Sponsor role with the Project Manager role
  • Describe the typical life cycle of a project
  • Perform appropriate sponsor actions in support of the project lifecycle
  • Identify the questions and concerns a project sponsor should express during each portion of the project life cycle

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