Today, organizations are faced with many challenges. Continuing changes require non-ending adaptation, flexibility, and agility. This all happens at a blinding pace, often making transition difficult. Leaders are constantly seeking ways to better lead all types of change, and even get ahead of the curve. Their quest…. to gain and sustain a competitive advantage.

The methodology offered by Leading Solutions Group and Strategic Directions provides a system for change. There are Six Components™ of a Performance-Driven Business™.

What does it do?
It speaks to all levels in an organization and tells everyone what their role is or will be. In many instances it even tells the individual what to do, when and how to measure success.

It allows the organization to...

• Know how to train people
• Identifies what knowledge is core to the organization
• Provides what can be outsourced or automated
• Prepares for technology to gain speed and accuracy while retaining human competitive advantage
• Imbeds a continuous improvement mindset into its structure and culture
• Is a systemic methodology considering all areas and how each affects the other
• Creates change agents from within the working community
• Bridges from one silo of business to another until the plan allows for solid integration

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Changing to a Performance-Driven Business™ improves strategic execution, creates a sustainable competitive advantage, and positions the company to leverage whatever it needs to be successful.

þ PDB 101™ Workshop

Performance-Driven Business™101 is designed as a one and a half day, instructor-led course that introduces participants to the concepts of being a Performance-Driven Business™. Based on the observable business needs of clients, this workshop is designed to teach the importance of business delivery processes, leading change in a systemic environment, and the Six Components™ of a Performance-Driven Business™.

This course is designed for newly formed process development teams and their management.

Benefits of the PDB 101™ Workshop

• Creates a clear sense of direction for changes an organization is preparing to undertake
• Participants gain a sense of cohesiveness based the use of a common language
• Motivates a commitment to the organization's goals with the knowledge that a roadmap exists to achieve success

Benefits of a Performance-Driven Business™

• Improvement activities are linked to key organizational objectives
• Increases communication and understanding across departmental functions
• Links individual performance to strategic goals
• Provides a detailed roadmap to consistently repeat the desired results

Overview
Successful projects do not happen by fate; however, many organizations often leave the outcomes of key projects to chance by relying on the individual expertise of project managers and teams. As organizations place increasing emphasis on team-based project initiatives to deliver value to their customers, employees and shareholders, the importance of delivering project on-time, in-full and to budget plays and increasing role in contributing to the organizations overall success. However, without a common methodology to organize, manage and deliver projects, these organizations find it difficult to manage or predict successful project outcomes.

The Performance-Driven Project™ (PDP) Workshop is designed as a 1 to 2 day, instructor-led course that provides participants with an integrated and standardized process for managing projects of all types and scale. Based on the observable business needs of clients, this workshop is designed to teach the importance and benefits of utilizing a common project management methodology, integrating project management with other business processes, and developing the Six Components of a Performance-Driven Project™.

Course Objectives:

• Learn what projects are, how they are derived, and how they impact an organization.
• Understand the concepts and components of a Performance-Driven Project™ and the benefits of incorporating into the project management process.
• Understand project management as a process, define the major phases of a project and practice applying these steps to organize, manage and deliver a project
• Learn how to develop the project scope and effectively deal with scope changes while gaining expertise and applying project management skills required to monitor, control and report project status throughout the project lifecycle.
• Gain skill in applying standard processes and methods that compliment your organization's needs.

The Performance-Driven Project™ Workshop
The Performance-Driven Project™ Workshop provides the core knowledge base that course participants will leverage to create a standardized methodology that combines generally accepted project management practices with the activities that make their projects unique. Subject-matter-experts (SME's) will work collaboratively to create details of their Performance-Driven Project™ process, which provides all project stakeholders with a common process of operation, view of progress and expectation of results throughout the project lifecycle.

Module 1: Projects in Organizations
The workshop begins with establishing a shared mindset of project parameters.

Module 2: Six Components of a Performance-Driven Project™
Participants explore the 6 Components of a Performance-Driven Project™.

Module 3: APECS - The Process of Project Management
The APECS Model is built upon five standard and distinct phases of the project lifecycle.

Participants navigate the APECS Model through application of the newly acquired project management skills in a variety of exercises that simulate a project environment.

Module 4: Project Management Toolbox
Standardized sub processes are learned to enable project teams to undertake these activities with a common, predictable and reproducible methodology.

Course Options
Leading Solutions Group will work collaboratively to ascertain the optimal level of pre and post workshop support required to deliver the desired future state project management process. Our solutions are customized to the unique needs of each client, and include, but are not limited to:

• Pre-workshop current state assessment
• Pre-workshop data collection and analysis
• Post Workshop tools and templates
• Supplementary training programs
• Implementation planning and execution
• Ongoing consulting, mentoring and support

Benefits of the Performance-Driven Project™ Workshop:

• Provides a common methodology for managing projects efficiently and effectively
• Reduces project cycle time while improving control of execution, cost and on-time delivery of projects to customer
• Provides all project stakeholders, including customers, with a real time view of project work flow, status and problem identification
• Improves capture and management of changes that occur during the project lifecycle, and allow for mitigation of change impacts.
• Provides a detailed roadmap to consistently repeat the desired results
• Provides a baseline for future process development and improvement