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Refining Your Business Skills

Posted by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

Deborah Bigelow Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in business management and handles the operational and administrative functions of PM Solutions. Ms. Bigelow Crawford also serves as Co-CEO of the PM College®, PM Solutions' training division, where she is responsible for the fiscal management and quality assurance of all training and professional development programs. Prior to joining PM Solutions, she served as the Executive Director of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and was instrumental in providing the foundation and infrastructure for the exponential growth that the Institute has maintained over the last 10 years. In addition, she served as the Executive Director of the PMI Educational Foundation. Over the last decade, she has authored numerous articles in PM Network, Chief Project Officer, and Optimize magazines. Ms. Bigelow Crawford is also co-author of the book Project Management Essentials. She has presented a variety of papers as a speaker at international symposia and conferences, and is a member of the National Association of Female Executives and the Project Management Institute.

<p>PM College has officially released a refined  Business Skills curriculum.</p><p>We are excited about the official launch of the Business-Driven PM curriculum! After refining the course contents based on input from students in pilot courses, we are ready to help organizations develop project managers with their fingers on the pulse of business.</p><p>This innovative new program was developed with input from real-life business leaders at global Fortune 500 and mid-size organizations. Leaders from more than 10 companies in the education, energy, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and retail sectors were represented at an inaugural pilot of the program held by PM College last year at Franklin University. The curriculum was again pilot-tested this year. The result was the four courses (<a href="http://www.pmcollege.com/content/business-driven-project-manager-training-program">see full descriptions here</a>) now offered. All of these courses touch on strategically aligning projects,&nbsp; evaluating the projects from a more holistic perspective, working with and engaging stakeholders, and understanding and communicating the business value of projects, programs, and portfolios.&nbsp;</p><p>Business savvy is increasingly a part of the project manager role. (For more background on this issue, <a href="http://www.pmcollege.com/content/white-papers">see our updated white paper here</a>.) What used to be two overlapping circles representing the art and the technical side of project <br />management is now more correctly drawn with a third, overlapping circle: business skills. Integrating art, science and business, today's project manager role has far more responsibility ... and also, more opportunity for advancement.<br />that are needed by today’s project managers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130417006068/en">Here's the news story</a> about the release. Questions? Just give us a call.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves /> <w:TrackFormatting /> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF /> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark /> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning /> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents /> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math" /> <m:brkBin m:val="before" /> <m:brkBinSub m:val="&#45;-" /> <m:smallFrac m:val="off" /> <m:dispDef /> <m:lMargin m:val="0" /> <m:rMargin m:val="0" /> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup" /> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440" /> <m:intLim m:val="subSup" /> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr" /> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--></p>

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