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Setting project objectives

Setting project objectives

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Setting project objectives

Setting project objectives is a critical step. Once they're established, you can use these objectives as a guide throughout the rest of your needs analysis. Really good project objectives are connected to organizational goals. Let's say you've been asked to create a training program on running effective meetings. The project objective might be to give some people meeting management tips. But why is the project really important. If successful, it could help participants run shorter, more effective meetings that result in getting more work done. A training project that provides new skills is good, but a project that leads to a better job performance is great. When you have your initial meeting with project sponsors, you can uncover their objectives and tie them to organization goals by using a set of probing questions. I've supplied a set of sample project sponsor interview questions that can be found in the exercise files. The questions are based on the training impact map. That was…

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