Project Management: TRAINING

Identifying Your Project Management “Angels”

Broadway producers call their financial backers “angels,” patrons who believe in the potential for the planned production and who are willing to provide support and act as benevolent guiding influences. In your project management training effort, you too will need a few angels—some to sponsor and fund the undertaking and some to provide a benevolent guiding influence and mentor you as you prepare to roll out your first workshop. Angels show up in unexpected places, so don’t be surprised to find some of your most valuable sources of ideas and guidance outside the normal lines of the org chart. Of course, start by looking for angels in a few of the most likely spots:

• Your HR department. HR staff are ...