1. Prepared by: Kaushik Pramanik,PMP, PGDOL (Oxford), PGDFI (LSE), MTech (IIT), BME
Hard & Soft skills of Program Director

2. Key Hard Skills of Program Director
Sound understanding of corporate and business policies, strategies.
Visionary and capable to translate business strategies into meaningful program and
project deliverables.
Design and implementation of the program governance strategies.
Engaging sponsoring group to develop vision statement for transformation.
Take the lead to develop program brief and strategically aligned blue print.
Sound understanding of strategy execution frame-work.
 Develop program management plan, resource management strategy, monitoring &
controlling strategy, risk management strategy and stakeholder management strategy.
Design of program organization structure and establishment of program board.
Managing top, key and high impact stakeholders and sponsors.
Establishment of Program team, project team with necessary skills, resources and
experience.
Line management of core program team.
Developing and implementing stakeholder engagement strategy.
Showing visible leadership during communication with sponsoring group and
stakeholders. Be the chair person in steering committee meeting.
High impact leadership to execute the program across divisions and regions.
Ensure program is always aligned with proposed benefits and benefit management
strategy is in place.
 Provide direction to the program and project team to achieve the vision of the program.

3. Key Soft Skills of Program Director
Self-awareness
High-impact decision making capabilities
Learning agility
Emotional intelligence
Resiliency
Building relationships at all levels
Politically savvy
Motivating and engaging others
Building and leading effective teams
Creating a culture of trust and respect
Effective Communication
Listening capabilities
Inspiring others to achieve the goal.
Entrepreneur characteristics
 Negotiation
Conflict resolution
Social intelligence
Life long learning