The Program Manager – Applying Power Skills and Digital Enablers to Create Continual Change

This course is a part of Program Management: Enabling Value Driven Change, a 4-course Professional Certificate series from edX.

The future of business is change-focused. Multiple facts are disrupting tomorrow’s organizations and if they are not change-ready, they will fail.

The ratio of changing the business to running the business will be much higher in future organizations;

Programs success is now clearly centered on stakeholder satisfaction;

The skills revolution is here to stay

In this course, you will get the skills you need and learn how to become a changemaker possessing strong communication skills and soft skills to build a culture that continuously aligns the program team members to the NorthStar of a given organizational transformation journey. As a great leader, you will understand different leadership styles and how to work in a cross-functional way across multiple projects contributing to a program’s vision. Over four weeks, you become a better leader by understanding the critical role of program stakeholders and ways to prioritize your engagement strategies. In addition to learning the mix of power skills for operating in future organizations, you will balance that learning with the role of digitalization in time management and changing where program managers will be spending their time to create the most program value in the future.

What you'll learn

• How to use effective leadership to create the culture for change-making, the attributes for a healthy “change culture, setup
• Program Stakeholders’ analysis and engagement and sensing approach refinement across the program life cycle
• The Power Skills, coupled with problem-solving and how to master these skills to drive effective decision-making and future success of program managers
• The importance of a good leader connecting various stakeholders to the big picture while excelling in team building to balance the demands of the short term and the various program/project roles using mentoring amongst other key skills
• Explore the value proposition of the leadership qualities within project management to become program professionals
• Where digitalization is heading in affecting success metrics, the role of program managers and the human and connected future of work