355: The Strategy Gap Your PMO Must Close Now

About this episode

This episode discusses how PMO leaders can support strategic planning and facilitate the execution of organizational strategy.

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen You have been told to “execute the strategy”, But does your organization even has one? If strategy looks like a list of competing priorities, you are not the problem. In this episode, I’m talking about how PMO leaders can support strategic planning. Strategy belongs to executive leadership. PMOs can facilitate the process that creates plans people can actually act on. That means addressing the elephant in the room: What matters most? What should we stop doing? What has to happen first? What You’ll Learn: • How to move the conversation from project lists to outcomes. • Why PMOs are natural planning facilitators. • How organizational visibility improves prioritization. • The questions leaders must answer before strategy becomes execution. This also ties directly to the strategy lifecycle I teach inside T he IMPACT Engine Book. Strategy moves through definition, translation, execution, and realization. Today’s focus is the beginning, where clarity is built before delivery starts. Press play to hear how PMO leaders can guide strategic planning conversations…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Barnard

Topics covered

• strategic planning
• PMO leadership
• organizational visibility
• project prioritization
• strategy execution

Keywords

• PMO
• strategy gap
• business acumen
• planning facilitators
• project outcomes
• executive leadership
• prioritization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PMI

Books & works: The IMPACT Engine Book

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