The execution of strategies in the changing world of work is going through an evolution. This transition is getting faster and more complex. Tomorrow’s leaders and program managers have not been created yet. At the center of their creation is developing the adaptive mindsets that see opportunities in chaos, connect and unite hearts, and apply focused resilient execution that achieves meaningful benefits faster. The future program managers are going to possess big picture, strategic and integration capabilities and a crystal-clear focus on value. They must be able to achieve this across a set of the moving components of change initiatives.

As leaders, program managers must connect teams of teams, across multiple projects, to discover and deliver sustainable business solutions and create with their teams the next practices. Accomplishing efficient and effective program work for their organization requires integrative thinking and can be overwhelming without the frameworks, program management tools, and skills that this program management certificate provides.

This certificate takes a global perspective and brings life to the principles and practices of successful program management. This enables professionals and their organizations to experience the potential this discipline brings to the way people work. Program participants learn the understanding of how the strategic plans and organizational cultures become more execution aligned and how to enhance the experiences encountered by their customers and other stakeholders.

A multitude of capabilities around managing and leading change, integration aptitude, strategy execution, and relentless focus on achieving customer centricity and value, will be demonstrated.

What you'll learn

• Learn the day to day role of programs as the vehicle for delivering business objectives and change, understand the connections between programs and projects in organizations’ ecosystems, and how to lead scaling the changes that drive businesses forward.
• Be the Future Leader and Capabilities Integrator for your team, practice the mechanics of planning for, owning, and sustaining program benefits, and shift how you think long term and connect business opportunities to the strategic landscape.
• Strengthen the Strategy Execution mechanisms, with a holistic solution design that aligns programs components, and project managers with the strategy.
• Build collaboration and transparency to remove execution obstacles that affect the speed and quality of decisions.
• Develop the foresight to create program plans with focus on value, the mindset, skills, and abilities that result in the aspired-to program’s outcomes and benefits.