The course is designed for any manager whose duties include responsibility for all or part of a project as well as for managers whose jobs involve frequent interactions with project leaders. It will also be of great benefit to project team members.
The programme is appropriate for current and prospective project managers, project leaders, project engineers, task force leaders, IT/IS managers, construction managers, engineering managers, product managers, managers with matrix reporting relationships and product development managers, among others.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
The Project Manager
Application activity: The Assessment Inventory for Project Management Kit. Participants use this unique 360-degree evaluation tool to benchmark and improve their project management skills.
Effective Project Planning
Application activity: Structuring and organizing a project team. Participants share their experiences in organizing, structuring and developing performance baselines for their projects. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their approaches based on the information learned in the course.
Organizing and Staffing Project Teams
Directing and Leading the Project Team
Application activity: Assessing your problem-solving style. Participants are grouped according to preferred problem-solving style to learn techniques to build on their strengths and capitalize on the contrasting strengths of others.
Application activity: Project situations. Participants are grouped in teams according to their respective management styles and develop responses to a series of management challenges.
Project Control Techniques
Project Management Reporting
Application activity: Creating a Management Reporting System. Participants develop appropriate reporting (method, formats, information) with which to control their typical projects.
Three days.