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Strategic Planning and Project Delivery

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Create comprehensive 12-month marketing plans.

  • Utilize advanced project management tools and develop cross-functional coordination strategies.

  • Manage leads and customer lifecycles using CRM.

  • Perform ROI analysis and strategic pivots and build effective brand launch playbooks.

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April 2026

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16 assignments¹

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This course is part of the AI-Driven Brand Management: Learnings from FANG and FMCG Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
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There are 6 modules in this course

This course develops the strategic planning and project management skills that enable marketers to execute complex initiatives on time and on budget. You'll master visual planning tools like Gantt charts and Kanban boards, learn to manage leads in HubSpot CRM, and facilitate effective team collaboration through post-mortems and cross-functional coordination. By the end of this course, you'll be able to build comprehensive project timelines in Asana, draft 12-month omnichannel strategies with revenue targets, and calculate ROI to recommend strategic pivots. These competencies prepare you for brand management, marketing operations, and strategic marketing roles where planning and execution excellence drive business results.

Who this is for: Marketing coordinators, brand managers, project managers, and professionals looking to enhance their strategic execution skills. Basic marketing experience is helpful but not required.

Are your launch plans a jumble of missed deadlines and unclear tasks? This module teaches you to bring structure and predictability to any initiative, regardless of the software you use. You'll learn to choose between timeline and flow-oriented methods, mastering the simple "To-Do, Doing, Done" framework that leading teams use. Through hands-on exercises, you will practice breaking a complex launch into discrete tasks, assigning owners, and setting due dates. You'll leave with a ready-to-implement blueprint and adaptable templates to create accountability, improve communication, and drive successful, on-time launches.

What's included

2 videos2 readings3 assignments

2 videosTotal 14 minutes
  • Gantt vs. Kanban: Timeline vs. Flow6 minutes
  • How to Structure Your First Launch?8 minutes
2 readingsTotal 20 minutes
  • The Power of Kanban and the Accountable Task10 minutes
  • The Mini-Blueprint Template10 minutes
3 assignmentsTotal 55 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: Organize the Jumbled Task List15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Core Concepts10 minutes
  • Brand Launch Mini-Blueprint30 minutes

Stuck in a perpetual team “storm"? This compact, 90-minute workshop provides the framework to move your team from friction to flow. You will master Tuckman’s classic model—Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing—to diagnose your team's exact stage and apply targeted interventions. The module focuses on the most powerful lever for breaking the storming cycle: absolute role clarity. Through a hands-on exercise, you will build a concise responsibility matrix that eliminates ambiguity and reduces conflict. You’ll leave with a concrete, repeatable process and a ready-to-use template to lead your team toward measurable, sustainable performance.

What's included

2 videos2 readings3 assignments

2 videosTotal 13 minutes
  • The Four Stages: A Team's Journey7 minutes
  • Choosing Your Move: From Storming to Norming6 minutes
2 readingsTotal 20 minutes
  • The Ultimate Fix: Role Clarity & Leadership10 minutes
  • How to Build a Responsibility Matrix10 minutes
3 assignmentsTotal 55 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: Draft a Mini-Matrix15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Diagnose and Advise10 minutes
  • Team Alignment Plan30 minutes

Transform your lead management from chaotic to structured and effective. This intermediate module is for marketing and sales professionals ready to master the engine that drives the sales funnel: the CRM. Using HubSpot as a practical model, you will learn principles that apply across major platforms like Salesforce and Zoho. Through hands-on, scenario-based learning, you’ll master structuring lead data and assigning critical data points like lifecycle stage, lead source, and ownership. By the end, you'll be able to prepare and categorize any new list of leads, ensuring a smooth, trackable handoff from marketing to sales.

What's included

2 videos2 readings2 assignments

2 videosTotal 9 minutes
  • The Cost of Chaos: When Lead Data Goes Wrong5 minutes
  • Decoding CRM: Lifecycle Stages and Lead Sources4 minutes
2 readingsTotal 13 minutes
  • The CRM "Big Three": A Marketer's Guide7 minutes
  • A Practical Guide to Preparing Lead Data6 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 55 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: Preparing Webinar Leads for HubSpot25 minutes
  • Structuring Trade Show Leads for CRM Entry30 minutes

In the intermediate module Manage Brand Projects, you will master the complete lifecycle of a major brand effort. Move beyond simple checklists to construct a strategic project blueprint that outlines tasks, milestones, timelines, and budget. Learn to conduct a “blameless post-mortem” to objectively assess outcomes, identify root causes, and extract actionable insights. Drawing on practices from leaders like Slack and Atlassian, you'll translate those insights into tangible updates for your team’s playbook. This module equips you to deliver projects efficiently and cultivate a culture of accountability and continuous improvement for measurable brand growth.

What's included

3 videos2 readings4 assignments

3 videosTotal 20 minutes
  • The Anatomy of a Project Plan8 minutes
  • Visualizing Success: From Tasks to Timelines6 minutes
  • The Cost of Not Learning6 minutes
2 readingsTotal 20 minutes
  • Deconstructing a Rebrand: The Airbnb Story10 minutes
  • The Blameless Post-Mortem and The Living Playbook10 minutes
4 assignmentsTotal 65 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: Drafting a Mini-Plan15 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Blueprint Components Check10 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: From Insight to Action10 minutes
  • Brand Project Management Package30 minutes

This intermediate module is for marketers, strategists, and leaders aiming to build seamless, data-driven customer experiences. Moving beyond siloed tactics, you'll learn to create a truly unified omnichannel strategy. You'll draft a full-funnel, 12-month plan by aligning audience segments with go-to-market tactics and clear revenue targets, while mastering channel-specific ROI calculations. Inspired by innovators like Sephora and Starbucks, you will analyze performance data to recommend effective pivots. The module culminates in creating a director-level strategy deck for a $2 million budget, demonstrating your ability to execute a high-impact omnichannel plan.

What's included

3 videos2 readings3 assignments

3 videosTotal 19 minutes
  • The Cost of Disconnection6 minutes
  • Building Your Strategic Blueprint7 minutes
  • How to Recommend a Strategic Pivot6 minutes
2 readingsTotal 30 minutes
  • The Anatomy of an Omnichannel Strategy15 minutes
  • From Data to Decisions: A Framework for Measuring ROI15 minutes
3 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes
  • Hands-On Learning: Q1 Performance Review40 minutes
  • Knowledge Check: Omnichannel Concepts20 minutes
  • 12-Month Omnichannel Strategy Deck30 minutes

This capstone project challenges you to integrate project management, CRM activation, cross-functional coordination, and strategic planning into a comprehensive 90-day brand launch plan. You'll create a complete playbook that could guide a real product introduction from planning through post-launch optimization.

What's included

2 readings1 assignment

2 readingsTotal 20 minutes
  • Why This Project Matters10 minutes
  • Your Project Blueprint: Requirements and Evaluation10 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 120 minutes
  • Project: Omnichannel Brand Launch Plan120 minutes

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No. The course is designed for intermediate learners, providing step-by-step guidance in marketing project management and strategic planning techniques.

You'll gain proficiency in Gantt charts, Trello, Asana, HubSpot, and other project management and CRM tools essential for modern marketing professionals.

The course includes a dedicated career development module to help you optimize your resume, LinkedIn profile, and interview skills for marketing strategy roles.

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When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.

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