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edXThe Program Manager – Applying Power Skills and Digital Enablers to Create Continual Change
32 studentsADVANCEDEnglish
Korshub's take
Leadership in a Change-Driven Enterprise
The future splits organizations into two classes: those built for continuous change and those that fail. Program managers straddle both: keeping current operations stable while shepherding multi-project transformations.
This advanced course builds your power skills—communication, stakeholder navigation, cross-functional leadership—then pairs them with the digital tools that free you to create value instead of fighting logistical fires. You'll learn leadership styles that hold alignment through ambiguity and how to prioritize stakeholder engagement so transformation doesn't collide with daily work.
A course for leaders who accept that stability is temporary.
About this course
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.
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