INTRODUCTION
The benefits of project management skills for non-project professionals, as well as for the project teams they support, are significant. However, little attention is focused on the critical and pivotal importance of these professionals’ knowledge and skills associated with how projects should be managed.
This practical, intensive seminar gives participants the basic knowledge, processes, skills, tools and techniques recognized as good practices that the project professional and his/her team worldwide use in enhancing the chances of project success. The seminar provides;
- Insight into how projects are implemented
- Recommendations on how non-project professionals can aid in the successful implementation of a project
- Project management skills that can be used immediately upon returning to office
BENEFITS
- Those who are involved in projects but do not manage them, such as Project Team Members, Coordinators, Stakeholders, Analysts, etc., who want to increase their level of effective and efficient contribution to the success of their project.
- Anyone in an administrative rolen project environments, such as Executive Assistants and other Administrative Professionals, who wishes to increase their level of effective and efficient contribution to the success of any projects they are involved in.
SEMINAR OBJECTIVES
- Obtain a fundamental understanding of basic aspects of managing projects.
- Familiarize and use essential vocabulary and terminology in managing projects and apply basic project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to increase both work efficiency and effectiveness on the project team
- Plan, organize and control project activities by using proven project management skills of successful projects.
- Learn and implement the five project management process groups to be performed for any project.
- Identify and understand the ten knowledge areas of project management.
- Realize the importance of both hard skills and soft skills as these are applied to different aspects of successfully managing a project for the project team.
- Learn how to proactively plan, monitor, track, update and control risks and opportunities to increase the probability of project success.
- Manage the on-going needs, concerns and expectations of stakeholders to effectively engaging them in project decisions and execution to support the project’s interests.
- Establish an effective and efficient communication strategy to get cooperation and coordination from stakeholders towards meeting the project objectives.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The seminar will combine conventional presentations with the use of course materials and interactive practical exercises, supported by training videos, case studies, etc. It includes concepts definition, experiential exercises, practical examples, dialogues and discussions. A high level of delegates’ participation is expected to relate the project management knowledge and skills learned in the seminar to the actual needs at their workplace.
SEMINAR SUMMARYIIP
This seminar provides non-project professionals a unique and simplified approach of the basic project management skills as practiced by those manage projects worldwide. It provides them with a practical and effective guide to learn what project professionals and their teams are doing and to acquire the project management skills to be an active, value-adding participant to the project team. It also provides a firm foundation for further development of project management knowledge, skills through more advanced training courses and more “hands-on” experience.
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