The Center for Strategic Leadership Professional Certificate for Leading as a Business Analyst Foundations over a trimester. This will divide the academic year into three sessions: fall, winter, and spring. Each trimester is approximately 8 intensive weeks.

This provides you with the opportunity to develop your own leadership and management styles. We provide you with live virtual workshops, one-on-one coaching and an opportunity for an internship placement midway through the program.

You will have the opportunity to identify your core values by completing The Leadership Principle’s self-assessment and where relevant completing The Leadership Principle’s 360 Feedback survey.

At the end of this 8-week intensive online course, you will have the confidence, knowledge and practical skill required to effectively lead and manage your project team, inspire and influence your project team to deliver projects on time and on budget. Knowing how to appropriately engage stakeholders to manage the changes when working on a project, as well as resolve workplace conflict through effective negotiations and communications. Virtual online classroom sessions are conducted 3 hours per week, reading is 5 hours per week and 3 hours assignments per week.

What You’ll Learn

• The distinction between Leadership vs. Management
• Understanding your own leadership style, motivations and beliefs
• Current state description
• Clarifying business objective
• Implement solution
• Potential business value

Who Should Enroll?

Professional Certificate for Leading as a Business Analyst Foundations is designed for high potentials and newly emerging Business Analysts or those seeking to formalize their skills.

Session 1:  Personal Effectiveness and Stakeholder relationships

• Self-management and self-leadership – understanding your core values
• Persuade, influence and negotiate positively by effective communication
• Lead and manage stakeholder decision-making and critical thinking
• Develop own leadership style and capabilities
• Cognitive Problem-Solving Archetypes
• Understanding and using BA POK
• Mental Models
• Eliciting your decision-making strategies
• Understanding the Imposter Syndrome and its impact

 

Session 2:  Define and analyze the solution performance measures

• Establish the framework and strategic priorities
• Establishing the business objectives
• Implement the solution
• Measure the potential value.
• Measure how the solution aligns with enterprise goals and objectives
• Meeting current business needs
• Establishing quantitative measures
• Establishing qualitative measures from attitudes of stakeholders
• Scope of the measures could involve the solution performance versus desired value, risks, trends, accuracy and performance variance.

 

Session 3: Assess Solution Limitations and Operational Limitations

• Use the implemented solution, current statement and performance measures learning from Session 1
• Investigate issues and barriers within the scope of a solution which may prevent meeting current business needs
• Investigate issues and barriers from outside which may be prevent realising the full value of the solution
• Identify internal and external component of solution dependencies
• Investigate solution problems
• Assess business risks regarding solution limitations.
• Generate an enterprise culture assessment
• make predictions towards stakeholder impact and organisational structure changes
• Accurately assess operational limitations

 

Session 4: Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value

• Develop stakeholder networks and engagement
• Verify ongoing cost versus initial investment, opportunity cost, sunk cost and necessity of the solution, avoid waste and reduce complexity of interfaces.
• Establish agreements to resolve misunderstandings or conflicts
• Encourage participation of stakeholders to create a team culture and initiatives
• Engaging your audience and enhancing relationships – Practising the Pitch

Determine your influence and negotiation styles to create win/win outcomes