Technical Program Management (TPM) Professional Bootcamp

What is covered?

Professional Communications

• Develop verbal and nonverbal communication styles by applying verbal and nonverbal skills in various speaking situations; videotaping and viewing one’s performance; critiquing one’s style; and receiving diagnostic evaluations.
• Use techniques, such as cognitive restructuring, to reduce speaker apprehension.
• Increase effectiveness in informative and persuasive message development using audience analysis, principles of organization, principles of Aristotle’s rhetoric, language devices, and supporting material (examples, narratives, testimony, and facts and statistics).
• Critically evaluate messages in terms of various criteria for effectiveness.

Foundations of Data Science and Analytics

• Identify and assess the opportunities, needs and constraints for data collection, measurement, tracking, analysis, security, reporting and overall management within a strategic organizational context
• Describe the business issues that data science and analytics can address and resolve
• Identify the methods by which data can be collected, stored, secured, analyzed, interpreted, forecasted, visualized, reported and applied in a business environment
• Assess the most common challenges and issues that arise in the management of data

Organizational Leadership and Decision Making

• Examine multiple viewpoints for differing frames of reference, perspectives, and orientations to the same situation.
• Employ leadership, team-building and decision-making concepts; examine how teams make high-stakes decisions in stressful situations, why individuals and teams make flawed choices and how leaders shape the context and the process through which teams make decisions.
• Critically reflect on leadership style and your own experience within a team and its leadership.
• Understand the role of leaders in setting strategic focus and direction.

Negotiating and Conflict Resolution

• Develop a systematic plan to negotiate with colleagues, bosses, clients, other stakeholders, and external groups of all kinds, by: analyzing characteristics of a negotiation situation; analyzing positions taken during negotiation; analyzing cultural differences and assessing how they influence negotiations; and using culturally responsive negotiation strategies.
• Assess how people communicate during negotiation and manage mood/emotion accordingly.
• Apply strategies for conflict management, managing different levels of conflict and utilizing components of a conflict resolution strategy.
• Improve negotiation communication.
• Recognize three major sources of power that exist: information and expertise, control over resources, and one’s position in an organization or network.

What is the schedule?

Who Should Attend?

The participants should have an Engineering degree and at least 5-7 years of experience in technology industry. The participant should be passionate about solution engineering, system design and effective communication. This course is also recommended for Development/Test Leads to contribute at a higher level in their technical projects.

Upon successful completion of this course you will receive certificate as well as a chance to get in the TPM Masters boot camp, which builds on top of this TPM foundation knowledge.

Hope to see you building your career one brick at a time!

 Education Team, NWITP