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This class was developed for all levels of Project Managers who are interested in assessing their current project management competencies and in developing strategies/skills to enhance their project management expertise. Students will learn essential project management topics as well as participate in small coaching groups with project managers of similar expertise.
Who should take the class?
- People acting in the role of project manager for all or part of a project team
- People who anticipate they will be asked to act as a project manager in the near future
What will you learn?
- Understand your project management competencies through a self assessment instrument; identify strength areas as well as those needing improvement
- How to apply project management principles to the real world
- Ways to achieve rapid results within time, budget, and scope constraints
- How to feel confident with Project Management concepts and terminology
- Strategies to take your real world project management experience and transform it through coaching to a higher level of project management competency.
- Techniques for dealing with project conflict
- Develop your personal effectiveness and translate that into project effectiveness.
Class Topics
- Completing an individual project management assessment with feedback
- Human Resource Management
- Understanding Project Management
- Defining scope
- Creating the initial schedule
- Refining the schedule
- Managing people and conflict/team member motivation
- Measuring project progress
- Communicating
- Closing the project
- Creating your personal development plan
What are the Class Benefits?
- Receive a personalized project management competency assessment
- Participate in small mentoring groups with project managers of similar expertise
- Unique class - you won't find this type of class anywhere else!
- Prepares you to be more effective as a project manager
- Students receive a 150 page workbook with specific tools
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