This team federation training equips project managers, leaders and transformation drivers to move from a paper project to a collective dynamic. Over two days, you structure your narrative, anticipate blockers, identify supporters and build an embarkment plan. Useful as soon as mobilizing beyond direct perimeter, in project mode or transformation.
A well carried project is fifty percent of success, the rest is execution
For project leaders in French speaking Switzerland, the challenge is no longer just file technical quality but the ability to durably embark stakeholders. The course relies on your real project and offers a complete canvas: narrative, stakeholders, communication plan, steering rituals. Format with workshops, role plays and final presentation.
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Carrying a project today is no longer just delivering on time. It also means embarking teams, sponsors and users over time. This course offers an outfitted approach for those who want to upskill on this dimension, in addition to project or business expertise. In Geneva and Lausanne, many project leaders and transformation drivers come to work on this subject to move from delivery to adoption.
A project without narrative is a file. A project with narrative is a story teams can retell. The course works on narrative ingredients (situation, challenge, vision, first step) and offers an applicable canvas. An often skipped step yet decisive.
Not all actors have the same influence and levers. The course offers a mapping grid (interest, power, posture) and a fine reading of supporters, opponents and undecided. An often rushed step yet decisive on project trajectory.
Every project meets blockers: change fear, perceived load, priority conflict, link to past failure. The course details classic blockers and offers grids to prepare answers, rather than improvising in tense meetings. A discipline that secures the trajectory.
The embarkment plan goes beyond communication. It integrates rituals (meetings, individual points, seminars), tools (dashboards, shared spaces) and embarkment milestones (first pilot, first visible success). The course offers a complete reusable canvas.
Initial engagement erodes if nothing maintains it. The course works on rituals that anchor over time: stage celebration, user feedback, visible micro reorientations. A dimension often neglected by technical project leads, yet decisive at six months.
Project leaders, transformation drivers, change managers, technical leads with transverse project dimension, growing SME founders, program managers. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, pharma industry and public sector.
You structure a federating narrative in less than an hour for your ongoing project, map your stakeholders with a clear grid, anticipate major blockers with prepared answers, build a complete communication and embarkment plan. You leave with your project effectively reworked under these angles and a quarterly action plan.
Transformation studies have documented it: a technically successful but poorly embarked project produces less value than a technically modest but well embarked project. This training positions itself precisely on the human dimension of project management, where many technical project leads have never been explicitly trained.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over two days with a senior transformation consultant. Format with concise theory, workshops on your project, framing role plays and presentation. Group confidentiality is explicit.
An ERP project leader moving from endured deployment to embarked deployment. An HR lead succeeding the implementation of a new evaluation system thanks to a clear narrative. A founder securing his board’s adhesion on a strategic pivot through fine mapping. The course addresses these three cases with brought projects.
This training combines well with persuasion (course 14555) for argumentation techniques, change management (course 14833) for large-scale transformations, and transversal leadership (course 14839) for piloting without authority. Many project leaders enroll in one of these courses.
Project leadership has shifted from technical mastery to embarkment capability. The most successful project leaders today are those who combine solid project methodology with genuine ability to engage stakeholders. The course addresses this shift, equipping you for the human dimension that increasingly determines project success.
In many transformation projects, the leader operates as cultural translator between sponsors, technical teams and end users. Each speaks a different language, with different priorities and time horizons. The course addresses this translation work, often the hidden core of project leadership effectiveness.
This translation responsibility is often the difference between projects that land smoothly and projects that land technically but never truly take.
Concrete techniques to operate this translation include glossary work, parallel meeting tracks, and bridge-building roles within the project team.
For which project type?
Any project involving multiple stakeholders: transformation, tool deployment, organizational change, transverse project.
Need certified PM?
No, the course is useful to any project leader, certified PMP, PRINCE2 or not.
Difference with change management?
Change management addresses large scale transformations. This targets projects of any size with practical embarkment focus.
Is personal project confidential?
Yes, group confidentiality is announced and held.
Does it integrate hybrid teams?
Yes, hybrid or distributed team piloting specifics (asynchronous, multi-sites) are integrated in exercises.
What follows?
For more, ITTA proposes courses on persuasion, change management and transversal leadership.
How to handle stakeholder turnover during a long project?
The course addresses this common situation: a key sponsor leaves, a stakeholder changes role, a contributor reassigns. Specific techniques to re-onboard new stakeholders quickly without restarting the entire engagement journey.
How to handle resistance from senior stakeholders?
The course addresses senior stakeholder dynamics specifically, with techniques for upward influence, sponsor alignment and managing political dimensions of transformation projects.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Côtes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
