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Let Strategic Management Group, Inc. help transform your company into a confident, decision-making organization that builds shareholder value and supports your overall strategy through our Project Leadership products and services.

SMG's Project Leadership simulation puts you in the driver seat of organizational transformation. As you experience the key business challenges of project leadership, you will make strategic business decisions that impact profitability and determine your success. As you problem-solve your way through the interactive, business scenarios, you will practice and apply the critical behaviors and skills that will enable you to build and motivate high performance teams, deliver shareholder value and support organizational strategy.

The Project Leadership™ simulation will empower Project Leaders to:

• Understand and apply project leadership best practices
• Develop a market-focused approach to profitability
• Make effective, strategic business decisions
• Build and motivate teams
• Align performance objectives with organizational strategy
• Allocate resources for maximum productivity and profitability
• Balance the diverse needs of projects, teams and departments
• Apply collaborative, conflict resolution principles to team-building
• Create a synergistic team vision

The Project Leadership™ solution is designed for both new and experienced Project Leaders in organizations seeking to:

• Grow revenue and reduce costs through project leadership development
• Communicate the significance and impact of each role on organizational profitability
• Translate the key challenges of project leadership into strategic market-focused decision-making
• Leverage the drivers of project profitability
• Maximize operational efficiency and excellence
• Build effective, collaborative teams
• Create and deliver more customer and shareholder value

PEAT® - The Project Environment Assessment Tool®
Assess, analyze and solve problems in your organization’s project system with PEAT®. Based on the book, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, co-authored by Dr. Robert J. Graham, PMP, and Randall L. Englund, this tool was created with “best in class” benchmark data compiled from best practices companies around the world. PEAT® is a must for organizations seeking to strengthen their project system for optimum performance, productivity and profitability.

Using PEAT® in conjunction with our project management process, SMG will work with your organization’s senior managers and project leaders to:

• Assess the present state of the project environment
• Determine the strengths and weaknesses of the project system
• Analyze organizational and individual performance
• Diagnose performance problems
• Develop a portfolio of performance initiatives
• Identify best practices to strengthen the project system
• Develop a program for system change
• Set measurable objectives and milestones

Dr. Graham is an independent management consultant and senior associate with SMG. Englund, formerly with the Hewlett-Packard Company, was a project manager and a consultant on HP's Project Management Initiative team. In addition to Hewlett-Packard, the following “best in class” organizations have provided their benchmark data: 3M, Boeing, Chevron USA, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NCR.

The Tools & Techniques course materials and modules provide participants with the skills to put together a Work Breakdown Structure, create a Network Diagram, identify risks on their projects, and formulate a Roles and Responsibilities Chart.

The Business Skills for Project Managers simulation, course materials and modules teach project managers to think outside the constraints of their project and consider "big picture" issues such as how their projects impact the company's growth and profitability.

The Leading Project Leaders simulation, course materials and modules help upper managers understand the importance of providing a supportive environment for project leadership. Topics such as portfolio management and selecting the right projects for the portfolio are covered in this senior-level workshop.

The Understanding Project Management CD-ROM provides the necessary skills new project managers need in order to understand and apply the process of project management. Understanding Project Management introduces users to the differences between project & process work, the role of the project manager on the team, and the tasks involved in the Five Phases of Project Management.