Get the key project management skills you need in your management role today

Highlights:

• Get the key project management skills you need as a manager today in just 2 days.
• Learn processes, use tools, manage stakeholders and get your projects done on time and on budget.

Key Competences:

• Project management skills
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Using key PM tools
• Managing resources & costs
• Risk management

The Essentials of Project Management for the Non-Project Manager is a 2-day or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Modules:
1 - Getting Your Hands Around Project Management
•Distinguish Between a Project and Operations
•Recognise the Factors That Contribute to Project Success or Failure
•Identify the Framework for Project Management

2 - Getting It Off the Ground
•Recognise the Value of Knowing Why/How a Project Is Important to the Organization and to You
•Explain the Elements of a Charter and Its Relevance to Initiating a Project
•Identify Stakeholders and Their Roles on a Project

3 - Planning the Work
•Apply Techniques to Define the Work to Be Done
•Identify and Apply Techniques to Estimate Needed Resources, Cost, and Hours for the Project
•Apply Techniques to Schedule the Project
•Identify Roles and Responsibilities for the Project
•Plan for Potential Risks to the Project

4 - Working the Plan
•Build an Effective Status Report
•Recognise the Types and Purposes of Meetings
•Identify Action Items and Issues
•Recognise the Importance of Managing Change

5 - Putting It to Bed
•Contribute to the Lessons Learned Database
•Identify the Project Records and Files That Must Be Archived for Historical Purposes
•Describe a Project Closure Checklist

You are a team leader or manager. You need to run projects as part of your role, but you do not have any project management training. This programme gives you the key skills you need in your role today.

Typical Participants:

• Managers
• Business Professionals