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Leadership Development
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Project Management
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Fine-tune your approach to projects or fill in knowledge gaps with Systemation’s project management courses
Business Analysis
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No project can succeed if you don’t know what the business issue is and what solution will address it. That’s business analysis 101.
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Why Systemation?
For more than 50 years, we’ve been in the business of getting work done. From our vantage point working inside hundreds of leading organizations, initially focusing on leadership development, project management, and business analysis, we’ve discovered the secrets of managing all work better. So let them raise the bar. We’ll help you stay above the fray.
If you hear leadership development, project management, and business analysis training and think hefty textbooks and dense, theoretical jargon, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. We know results are what matter. So we focus on helping you fine tune your approach and building the essential knowledge and skills to make an immediate impact—on your work, your projects, your credibility, and your organization’s results.
Leadership Development
Leadership at its core is about: an individual leader, with a team of employees leveraging a set of resources, following a vision crafted to satisfy a key area of accountably within a company, in an environment of constant change and complexity.
A leader must first have a vision that sets the direction for where the organization is going. Often their responsibilities are provided by someone higher in the organization. But how they achieve that vision is up to the leader’s discretion.
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It is not possible for the leader to achieve the vision without their team of people contributing to the effort. This single statement describes the hardest part of being a leader, getting a group of individuals to follow their lead.
Getting people to follow the leader involves three domains of influence. One is aligning people’s focus. Two is motivating and inspiring their team to chase the vision. Three is creating a work environment that recognizes the staff’s contribution and builds a culture that empowers people in their roles.
Next for the leader is making sure day-to-day operations are as effective and efficient as it can be. That comes when the value the organization provides to internal or external customers is top of mind for every team member and process and tools support that value creation. Also, when forecast demand drives the organization’s planning and budgeting, as well as how it’s staffed and organized. Nothing ever goes as planned, so the leader must know when actual results are not meeting what was planned and engage in problem solving to resolve the discrepancy.
Lastly, leaders must drive accountability for results and follow through with performance management actions. They also must invest time and energy in the employee’s development by helping them gain additional responsibilities and experience.
Project Management
Project management is a multi-faceted job requiring skills for initiating, planning, execution, control and closing of projects. Systemation’s project management training targets each of these areas. We’ll give you the know-how and expertise the job requires.
First, the project charter helps you think through the planning of initiatives and budgets for the year and establishes clarity around roles, responsibilities, milestones, and other expectations. Once a project is initiated, the next step is creating and managing the project plan that will set context and define how the project will be executed and controlled through to completion. This is a living document that tracks time, cost, and scope baseline, a skill our project management training will help you master. Defining and managing project scope—which includes features, functions, and desired quality of the product or service—at the outset is critical. The project approach then describes the strategies the team will apply to get to the desired result.
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Risk management focuses on how to handle potential project struggles. The work breakdown structure is a dynamic document that provides the foundation, framework, and structure for nearly everything that happens in project planning. From this, the Gantt chart is created, depicting the project schedule.
Finally, project team management is an essential responsibility throughout the life of the project, one you will conquer with our project management training. Because project managers often lead without authority, they must be able to build relationships to get things done, enable the team to do its best work, and manage the flow of skills required.
These responsibilities are both individual and interconnected. Especially in today’s project-intensive organizations, there is no one without the other. All are essential aspects of the job.
Business Analysis
Systemation’s business analysis training courses are designed to make you better at recommending solutions that will enable the organizational changes necessary to deliver value to stakeholders. It encompasses six key responsibilities.
First, the business analyst develops a compelling business case to get approval to move forward. The most effective business cases are clear and simple, articulating business need, solution scope, stakeholder concerns, estimated time and cost, and overall ROI.
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Because business analysts have to interact with wide-ranging stakeholders to move projects forward, stakeholder analysis is critical. This process creates insight into varying motivations, interests, and perspectives to determine the best way to involve and engage each stakeholder to meet project needs.
Our business analysis training is more than evaluating numbers. Every project has users, and the business analyst is responsible for getting their input, typically through use cases and user stories. The use case describes specific actions and behaviors, while the user story, which is more conceptual, provides context for the use case.
To make sure the project’s end result is what the business needs, the BA develops business requirements. These set context and ensure the project’s scope is aligned to meet the business purpose. Both functional requirements and non-functional requirements must also be defined to identify what the product/service should do (functional requirements) and how it should work (non-functional requirements), something our business analyst training will help you to achieve.
Finally, the business analyst must verify that what’s ultimately delivered satisfies the users’ requirements and works in the environment it’s designed for. The only way to do that is through user acceptance testing.
As these responsibilities demonstrate, business analysts are essential for helping an organization continually improve and achieve its goals.
Teaching vs Facilitating
Most educators agree with the statement that “individuals differ in their general skills, aptitudes, and preferences for processing information, constructing meaning from it, and applying it to new situations.” Why is it, then, that so many training and education professionals employ a teaching philosophy that emphasizes the “teacher” as a deliverer of information and the “learner” as simply the receiver of information?
Few things are more important in training than how content is imparted to students, and as such is it important to underscore some key differences between teachers and facilitators.
Teaching tends to emphasize delivery of information to the learner without regard for learning preferences, the needs of the learner, or the transfer of learning to the job. Facilitators, on the other hand, create an environment where students are encouraged to interact and engage the whole mind and body in the learning activity, and this links critical thinking with real-life application. In order to be successful, project managers and business analysts must learn in an active, encouraging and stimulating environment.
Adult learners require facilitators to increase knowledge and change behaviors. This is what brings about true performance improvement.
About Systemation
Systemation is a results-driven training company that optimizes the performance of individuals and organizations by instilling current best practices, processes, and techniques across the enterprise. With unparalleled expertise in Leadership development, project management, business analysis, and agile development, we help transform the way people perform to maximize overall businesses success.
