This course helps project managers assess their project communication needs, plan for meeting those needs, and effectively communicate project status and forecasts throughout the project lifecycle. Managing project communications is one of the most important duties of a manager. Human resource (HR) management within a project is the crucial success factor—nothing will ever be designed, built, implemented or operated without people. The participants will learn the effective principles of project human resource and communications management and applying them in managing a project.
Target Audience:
This course is suitable for anyone involved in leading teams and projects regardless of size. This includes Project Managers, Project Leaders, Project Engineers, Business Analysts, Project Office Staff, and others.
Key Participant Benefits:
Leaders need skills in leading, motivating and coordinating the team to reach its goal. By developing these skills, you will be able to not only enjoy more successful projects, but also will benefit from enhanced relationships and improved team morale. As a leader, you will benefit from developing this skill set the most due to today’s environment that typically includes the need to lead team members who do not directly report to you.
Key Business Benefits
All leaders need to be effective communicators and project managers are no exception. In fact, because project team members can be drawn from different technical and/or professional backgrounds, the demands on project managers' communication skills may be even greater than those placed on other managers. The business benefits of developing the Human Resource and Communications are significant and can help to essential protect your project investments.
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Develop a project communications plan
Plan Information Distribution - how to plan and manage your communication channels, and monitor their effectiveness
How to effectively keep stakeholders informed of project progress
How to manage project communications to satisfy the needs of, and resolve issues with, project stakeholders
Analyse your project communication requirements for keeping internal and external project stakeholders informed of project status
Create a functional, practical, project communications plan
Understand of what communication tools are most effective in what circumstances
Effectively communicate project status, integrating information regarding project schedule and cost
Manage in a Matrix environment
Strengthen your team leadership and motivation skills
Identify key attributes of high performing teams
Apply specific techniques to build relationships and influence without power
