IMPACT Driver Training and Certification

Why Your Project Managers Need This Program

In short, because your business is counting on it.

Tangible results you can expect:

  • Greater ROI for projects creating more organizational value
  • Stronger communication focused on driving business outcomes
  • Launch your Marketing initiatives faster to increase revenue

Chaos is nothing new to project leaders that have been at the center of it all for decades. But managing change is even more challenging when uncertainty is compounded, and directives are switching regularly. With change and uncertainty as the only constant, business leaders will rely on project managers even more to manage the changes necessary to keep them moving forward toward an uncertain future.

This demand requires project leaders to shed the traditional project management role and shift gears toward a more agile and nimble operating model that accelerates IMPACT on every project while harnessing the power of a digital future offering endless possibilities.

Typical PM Training Focus

  • PM “Mechanics”
  • Scope, Schedule, Cost
  • Tools + Templates
  • The “Consistency Straitjacket”
  • Maybe tossing in some Agile techniques

IMPACT Driver Workshop Focus

  • Business objectives
  • Maximizing bang for the buck
  • Driving the cadence of value delivery
  • Promoting a “How might we…?” mindset
  • Applying iterative techniques with purpose

Guiding Your Journey

Shifts We’ll Teach to Support Your Company’s Growth

We understand that our job is to solve business problems, not project problems. We create an environment and team that is dedicated to leveraging the best of project management to meet the needs of the business, understanding that emphasis is on the business solution and the outcome we are helping the organization achieve.

There are even better ways to define project success than the triple constraint (time, scope, cost) and Earned Value Management (EVM). We will develop metrics and mechanisms for ensuring we are achieving the business goals – the OUTCOMES INTENDED for each project, not just the outputs.>

There’s a lot more to project management than waterfall methodology, or any other implementation methodology, and we will focus on finding the best way to implement each project, all projects across the portfolio, and ensure that we will not fall victim to methodology wars to the detriment of achieving successful project outcomes.

People are not resistant to change, they are resistant to having change done to them. We learn new ways to bring people with us through the change process so that we can create the necessary alignment to accelerate business change.

Our job is to facilitate effective and transparent communication, removing overhead and administration for project communication so that stakeholders have the information they need to make educated and informed decisions in a timely manner. We will educate, inform, and help build project management understanding and capability across the organization.

The PMO and project management (regardless of methodology) is the key to helping an organization deliver on its strategy. We will embrace our role as Strategy Navigator™ for the organization so that we can accelerate the return on investment for every project.

IMPACT Driver™ Certification

Elevating your execution teams to help you achieve your most important strategic goals faster and with greater ROI.

PMO Strategies is pleased to offer our exclusive IMPACT Driver™ Certification program designed to elevate and differentiate project managers from the broader project community as having the skills and leadership capabilities necessary to help the organization achieve a greater IMPACT For all of their strategic goals

Ideal Audience

The IMPACT Driver™ Certification Program is designed with YOU in mind.

  • Project Managers
  • Program Managers
  • Agile Leaders
  • PMO Practitioners
  • Change Leaders

Requirements

  • IMPACT Driver™ Workshop
  • Complete 10 targeted on-demand training programs in the IMPACT Inner Circle Membership
  • Pass scenario-based final exam with at least 90%

Why PMO Strategies?

Typical Approach

Most PM training is overly focused on consistency, as if just being consistent will unlock unspecified “efficiencies.” In contrast, the IMPACT Driver workshop is focused on effectiveness, introducing much higher-powered ways to drive IMPACT.

Our Approach

The overarching theme of this training is IMPACT, or how to get more “bang for the buck” for every project. In contrast, most PM training is more focused on the “how,” almost completely omitting the “why”—the business objectives.

Typical Approach

With consistency as the lower-powered focus, PMOs are typically trained to enforce compliance with standards. In contrast, the IMPACT Driver workshop focuses on unleashing the power of PMs and project teams to drive getting to better business outcomes not just perfecting outputs.

Our Approach

This program builds on prior training, such as PMP preparation based on the PMBoK, and shows PMs how to know when and how to use the tools they have learned to accelerate the PM process instead of slowing it down by applying an “every tool in the toolbox” approach to projects.

Typical Approach

The ROI for most PM training is minimal, if not zero or even negative, when there’s a heavy focus on process that slows everyone down. In contrast, the typical ROI on the IMPACT Driver workshop is 5X or higher.

Our Approach

Typical PM training is overly focused on either predictive/waterfall or agile/iterative approaches. In contrast, the IMPACT Driver workshop teaches a more practical “best tool for the job” approach – putting common sense into common practice.

How Can We Help You Make a Bigger IMPACT?