Sponsor Maxims

Jim Johnson talks on Executive Sponsorship at ESI’s PMO Executive Summit on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 – 11: 00 am – Noon @
Charing Cross Hotel, The Strand, London WC2N 5HX

Sixty-0ne percent (61%) of successful projects were managed by organizations with a highly skilled to skilled executive sponsors. Seventy percent (70%) of failed projects are managed by organizations with moderate to poor executive sponsor skills.  Executive management support is the number one factor of project success.  Improving both the executive sponsor and the project manager’s bonding skills will increase project success.  Measuring and benchmarking executive sponsor and project management bonding skills is the first step in improving them. In this talk, Jim Johnson will present almost two decades of research on Executive management support skills and the effects it has on project outcomes.

In this talk you will learn:

• What is the role of the executive sponsor?
• What is the bonding role of the project manager?
• What are executive sponsor skills?
• What are the project manager bonding skills?
• How to measure and benchmark executive sponsor skills?
• How to measure and benchmark PM bonding skills?
• How to improve and manage executive sponsor & PM skills?
• Why should you care about them?