Project Management: Advancing your Skills: Tools and Techniques (3 day)

Course Overview

Projects are dynamic with real business objectives and cannot be managed by processes alone. Success therefore requires a combination of best practice methods and tools, plus the interpersonal skills to meet business objectives throughout the entire project lifecycle.

This three day course focuses on what it takes to be a successful project manager, exploring both the processes, tools and multiple skills needed to deliver projects in today's dynamic business environment.

Audience

This course is suitable for experienced project managers who need to formalise and add to their existing skills. Also people who regularly manage projects and need to develop all the key skills of successful project management.

The training is highly participative with an extensive, simulated project exercise, to explore the practical application of tools and techniques drawn from professional project management practice.

Skills Gained

• Develop a group of individuals into a productive and committed project team
• Effective tools in the planning and execution of projects
• Establish clear project foundations
• Create effective and deliverable project plans and milestones
• Creatively solve problems and manage risks in dynamic projects
• Manage stakeholder expectations and relationships
• Adopt the 10 core competencies for successful project management
• Influencing skills to ensure successful project outcomes
• Apply techniques for handling change and pressure
• Learn flexibility and focus in the face of change

Project Management: Advancing your Skills: Tools and Techniques (3 day) / PMAS-TT2