Best Practices for Project Management
Select Other "city & date"
Best Practices for Project Management Course
Introduction:
More than ever before, an organization’s work in making strategic improvements is project-type tasks. Project management is a specialized approach to managing business and is increasingly becoming more complex and sophisticated. This complexity calls on the professional’s skill in more than just the exercise of intuitive judgments. A successful professional project executive is expected to create a blend of the art and science of project management. In doing so, it is necessary to rely on the application of the science and systems of project management while demonstrating flexibility, innovation, and leadership to maximize project success. Modern organizations cannot afford anything less than competent project management that leads to completed projects.
Course Objectives:
- Establish project boundaries through scope and objectives management techniques
- Plan and implement the project within the specified time, cost, and quality constraints
- Understand leadership and its role in the development of project teams
- Gain greater skill in working in the role of project team leader
- Learn how to predict project trends, monitor project progress, and report summarized project information to different levels of the organization
- Learn how to plan a project balancing the constraints of time, cost, scope, and quality
- Use basic project management knowledge, skills, and techniques
- Develop skills in leadership techniques of goal and objective setting, decision-making, relationships, and communication
- Understand the team skills necessary for a successful project leader
- Learn to utilize individual and team strengths to achieve project objectives
- Learn how to complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations
- Understand the role of stakeholders in a project and learn techniques of stakeholder management
- Learn to use various project scheduling techniques
- Determine and balance resource needs
- Develop techniques to deal with organizational change
- Develop communication and human interaction skills to develop successful project teams
- Establish appropriate strategies for identifying, controlling, and responding to risks
Who Should Attend?
The course is designed for anyone who is an acting or aspiring project professional, whether you are a coordinator, engineer, consultant, or site administrator in any sector of industry and/or business, including the service industry. The course is appropriate for those who have some project work experience and are responsible for managing any type of project or those who desire to learn project leadership skills to be able to better manage their work. Persons who are members of current teams, business planners, technical professionals, and engineers moving into project leadership, and executives responsible for managing projects would find this course valuable.
Course Outlines:
Project Officer Leadership Skills in a Changing Culture
- Identification of project officer leadership skills
- Challenges project executives face in changing organizations
- Conditions that exist that require leadership
- The role of project team leadership in dynamic organizations
- Understanding the role of strategic management in leadership
- How leadership skills have changed with organizational change
Project Leadership in Organizational Excellence, Goal Setting, and Decision Making
- The role that organization type plays in project management
- Developing a culture of organizational excellence in project management
- Learning to set good goals and objectives
- Learning the skills and techniques of managing project stakeholders
- Decision-making and problem-solving concepts for team leaders
- How to lead a team in decision-making analysis
The Importance of Communication as a Project Management Professional
- Importance of project team leadership and communication methods
- Interpersonal communication is two-way
- Understanding of how interpersonal communication preferences differ
- Developing an active listening communication style
- Communication information distribution and presentation in project teams
- Communicating empowerment techniques in a project team
Building Trusting Personal Relationships with Project Team Members
- Successful interpersonal interaction develops trust in teams
- Characteristics of interpersonal interaction
- Identification of the personal interaction style
- Individual strengths and challenges of each interaction style
- Team strengths and challenges in interpersonal interactions
- Understanding how teams work better using varied interaction types
Project Management, Innovation, and Human Change
- Understanding the benefits of innovation and improvement
- Leading personal change in our teams
- Understanding problems inherent with a change in individuals and teams
- Avoiding critical change mistakes
- The preparing project team and individuals for change
