3196 - PM Skills®: Expanding Focus and Alignment
Course Description
A project consists of many moving parts—people, resources, materials, and timelines, just to name a few. All of these parts connect and influence each other, and, as the project leader, it's your job to ensure that all of the parts come together in the right way to achieve a specific goal. But, as many project leaders know, it's never as simple as moving from point A to point B; projects are messy and nonlinear, so leaders need tools that will help them align project elements and see the bigger picture.
Systems thinking provides a framework for better understanding the complex and ever-changing parts of a project. This methodology helps you think of your project as an interrelated part of the larger puzzle that your organization will use to meet its objectives. It allows you to look beyond the boundaries of your project to see how factors outside those boundaries interact with the things inside (and vice versa). And it helps you expand your focus to see how your project results fit into the overall scheme of your organization.
Students have 90 days from the day they are granted access to complete this course.
Please note: Access to this course will be granted as soon as possible but may take up to 1 business day.
Credits:
- 3 PMI PDUs:
- 0.75 Ways of Working PDUs
- 1.25 Power Skills PDUs
- 1 Business Acumen PDUs
- 0.3 IACET CEUs
- 3 HRCI Credits
- 3 SHRM PDCs
- 3 ATD CI Credits
Learner Outcomes
After this course, you will be able to:- Define systems thinking
- Identify key system elements
- Differentiate between open and closed systems
- Recognize positive and negative feedback loops
- Identify strategies for visualizing complex systems
- Describe methods of assessing a project system
- Recognize common system elements
- Identify system leverage points
- Recognize the key elements required for effective leadership and project coordination in complex systems