E-learning course – Leading a steering committee – 1.5 hours
Lead your project committees with impact to secure your deliverables, decisions, and decisions.
Leading a steering committee is more than just an information meeting. It’s a true strategic lever for the operational and political success of your projects. This course offers you clear, actionable, and immersive skills development to speak with impact before a steering committee, align sponsors, and obtain decisive decisions.
This course targets project managers, PMOs, project directors, as well as executive committee members involved in project governance. It answers key questions for professionals:
How to run a project committee that is concise, strategic, and engaging? How to create buy-in? How to make the right decisions at the right time?
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Be clear about the roles and challenges of a steering committee
- Structure your preparations in a rigorous and action-oriented manner
- Present the progress and risks in a powerful way
- Ask the right questions to prompt decisions, arbitrations, and directional alignment
- Lead solution-oriented discussions, even in moments of tension
- Adapt your posture according to the types of sponsors or CODIR
A course structure designed for anchoring and immediate implementation:
Module 1 – Effectively manage your project committees
You will become fully aware of the strategic importance of the steering committee in the success of a project. This module will help you identify common mistakes to avoid and the levers to transform these meetings into real drivers of engagement and management.
Module 2 – Mastering the fundamentals of Steering Committees
Project governance frameworks, member roles, decision-making dynamics: this module lays the foundations for rigorous and shared management.
Module 3 – Implementing best practices in the field
Techniques for structuring an effective agenda, visually presenting project progress, addressing sticking points, and engaging your stakeholders in the action.
Module 4 – Adopting context-specific management
Adapting your communication and posture according to the profile of the sponsor or the Executive Committee, depending on whether the project is in the start-up phase, drifting, or in a crisis situation.
Module 5 – Interactive simulator: Presentation to a Steering Committee
You take on the role of a project manager presenting the project’s progress to management. Your goal: to obtain key decisions, feedback, and arbitrations by asking the right questions at the right time.
Module 6 – Final Mega Quiz
A final stage of active revision to anchor learning and validate mastery of the subject.
An essential training course for anyone who wants to make the steering committee not a constraint, but an act of strategic management.
