Project Management for Practitioners - Essential Skills Program

Project Management for Practitioners - Essential Skills Program

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$4,290.00 inc. GST
5 Days
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Overview:
This highly interactive 5 days workshop is designed to give participants a solid foundation in the concepts, tools and techniques of formal project management. While introductory in nature, this course is extremely comprehensive, covering the five key process groups and 38 core competencies associated with effective and efficient project management practice. Participants will acquire advanced interpersonal skills and learn consensus-building techniques that help provide clarity and garner commitment from team members, customers and management. These influential skills are instilled in participants through real-world scenarios; the concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results. Consisting of 5 days comprehensive workshop, it emphasizes the successful planning and initiation phases of the project management discipline. In addition to providing technique-based competencies, the Practitioner Program teaches students the "softer" skills as well, such as negotiation techniques, getting management buy-in and effectively working with others. Days 1 to 3 - Participants learn state-of-the-art techniques for developing comprehensive project plans, getting management buy-in, and estimating and scheduling project tasks with accuracy and sophistication. In addition, they rehearse dynamic modelling to handle surprise variables. Days 4 and 5 - Participants examine how to serve as a successful bridge between a project team, customers, and sponsors. Participants learn techniques for making difficult requests and influencing people outside their scope of power. This course earns you 30 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and 33 Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Units from the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)
Target Audience:
Those who want to understand project management skills and concepts and who must influence projects customers and other team members.
Pre-requisites:
Their are no pre-requisites for this course.
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Use a network diagram to display a Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart.
  • Use the Critical Path Method (CPM) in the network diagram to ensure the correct project duration.
  • Estimate and schedule project tasks.
  • Apply resources to a project plan.
  • Explore different personality types and learn how they affect project management.
  • Apply time-tested tools and techniques to actual projects.
  • Create and communicate a shared sense of purpose between the project team and stakeholders about your project.
  • Involve and engage key customers and use the views of others to create commitment and advance your project.
  • Prepare to make difficult requests and influence people with whom you do not have official power; for example, obtaining additional resources for your project.
  • Use a negotiation model that guarantees common understanding of the issue and creates accountability for and ownership of the final solution. Listen to and resolve stakeholders¡¦ concerns.
  • Use group facilitation skills to create a common reference point that includes the description of the business problem, where the project is going, how to actualise it, and stakeholder involvement at any given point in the project.
  • Identify key stakeholders for the project to understand their assumptions and expectations and to get them involved at the right time.
  • Negotiate agreements that get your project started correctly and keep it moving along.

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Outline:
An Overview of Project Management
The People Side of Project Management
Planning the Project
Work Breakdown Structure (Work Plans)
Estimating
Scheduling
Risk Management
Project Control
Project Completion
How to Build Commitment and Accountability Through Effective Negotiation
Influence Through Selling Ideas
Group Facilitation
Process Start-Up Matrix
Scope Facilitation Technique
Stakeholder Mapping and Analysis
Force Field Analysis
The Art of Managing Resistance
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