Training Bite Size Workshops
For more information about the following workshops, please contact Sue Tan.
- Designing Programmes
- Balancing Risk
- Problem Analysis
- Impact Analysis & Change Readiness
- Stakeholder Management
- Scoping
Designing Programmes
This workshop provides a practical guide about:
- How to review Strategy and define the ‘future view’ of the organisation.
- How to ‘shape’ Projects and Change Activities to move from the ‘current view’ to the ‘future view’.
- How to integrate new Projects and Change Activities with existing Projects and Change Activities to remove duplication, overlap, design conflicts and double claiming benefits.
- How to identify, brief and enlist the Stakeholders.
- How to do initial Benefits and Cost estimation.
- How to initiate the Programme by setting up the right teams (Stakeholders; Change Agents; Operations; Suppliers, Programme Team).
- How to manage the integration of all Projects and Change Activities throughout the lifecycle of the Programme.
Balancing Risk
This workshop provides a practical guide about:
- How to evaluate all risks (Programme; Project, Stakeholder; Programme team; Suppliers; Operations; Design; Delivery; Embedding, Costs, Benefits, etc).
- How to do Scenario Planning to estimate the likelihood that a risk may happen.
- How to Reality Check through socialising and sound boarding that a risk is real.
- How to rate, categorise and design risk remediation tactics.
- How to enlist Stakeholders, Operations and Suppliers to ‘own’ risk remediation.
- Tactics to prevent real risks from being ignored or ‘buried’.
- Effort versus risk. How much time, effort and money to put into risk remediation.
Problem Analysis
This workshop provides a practical guide about:
- How to take any problem and analyse symptoms, causes, issues and core issues to solve the right problem.
- How to develop high level options to solve any problem.
- How to evaluate each option in the wider context (Strategy; Feasibility; Sponsorship; Stakeholders; Customer Interests; Technical Feasibility; Competitors; Suppliers, etc).
- How to form recommendations, sound board and enlist Stakeholders and Influencers.
- How to widen the opportunity for Change and assess Re-engineering opportunities.
- How to identify high level Benefits and Costs and create the Cost Benefit Analysis.
- How to solve the whole problem, communicate for comprehension, understand the different perspectives and use effective ‘group thinking’.
Impact Analysis & Change Readiness
This workshop provides a practical guide about:
- How to assess all aspects of a planned Change (Barriers, Implementation, Critical Changes, Gap Analysis, Benefits).
- How to understand the Operational view of any proposed Change (Sub Process, Job/Role, Systems, Delivery, Performance, etc).
- How to assess Operational Change Readiness and interpret the assessment.
- How to develop Change Tactics to prepare the Operation for any Change.
- How to balance Change Tactics with cost, time and quality to identify Critical Change Tactics.
- How to integrate Change Tactics with Programme and Project Plans.
Stakeholder Management
This workshop provides a practical guide about:
- How to identify Stakeholders.
- Knowing when a Stakeholder is not a Stakeholder.
- What Stakeholders need to provide the Programme or Project team.
- Understanding Stakeholder behaviour.
- What to do when a Stakeholder is not doing their part.
- How to manage conflict between Stakeholders.
- What to do when Stakeholders will not listen to critical feedback.
Scoping
This workshop provides a practical guide about:
- How a problem is presented.
- Identifying Key Players.
- Interview & Facilitation techniques.
- The right questions to ask.
- Interpreting findings.
- Validating information.
- Common early errors.
- Developing the Detailed Scoping Statement.
- Forming and making recommendations.