Culture Change Training: Focus on Strategic Initiatives

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

  Leadership   PMO   Strategy  

When leadership is driving an effort to prioritize strategic initiatives, the PMO must support the workforce training that helps align the culture to that goal. This should include participating in the development of the training and complementary messaging, even designing and developing PMO-specific content.

Even if your organization already has a strong change culture, you have to make sure that the focus is on strategic initiatives. The PMO has a significant interest in this culture change being successful. It will suffer from any misalignment between leadership goals and projects being pushed by the divisions of the organization.

Here are some key topics you should make sure are in the training content…

First Things First: Leadership Support

Senior Leadership
At the very beginning of any training of this type, you have to establish the fact that this focus has cascaded down from senior leadership. Senior leadership develops the strategy and must speak to certain details in this area from their perspective. This is a necessary first step to getting buy-in from those in the reporting chain.

Some good practices for you to consider:

• Include leaders in a supportive video or put their photos on a slide with their personal message in support of the changes.
• Include leaders to represent all affected …

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