Course Length: 2 days
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Project Risk Management
* Project Quality Management
* Project Communications Management
Course ID: PM94838
Course Overview
The consequences of failed projects can be grim. Lost business, lost jobs, and lost opportunity. To put it in perspective, consider this: In just a 12-month period, organizations that average closing $65 million worth of projects will see $30 million of those projects at risk of failing, according to findings from the Center for Business Practices. That means that nearly half of an organization's projects are at risk at any given time, no matter the size of the organization. With so much at stake, early detection and action is key to avoiding the substantial losses associated with troubled projects and project failures.
In this one-day workshop you will be introduced to a comprehensive review and recovery process that helps you identify troubled projects and take corrective action early in the project lifecycle to avoid costly losses and failure. You’ll learn how to identify true root causes of troubled projects through a formal assessment to focus recovery efforts in the right areas. You’ll also learn how to develop a recovery plan that identifies the critical objectives that must be satisfied to complete the project.
Key Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
* Establish a review and recovery process to avoid costly project failures
* Identify the root causes of troubled projects
* Create a project recovery plan
* Describe the steps needed to execute your project recovery plan successfully
* Capture lessons learned from a project review and/or recovery to improve your overall project management capability
* Articulate the critical success factors for successful project recovery
Course Outline
Identifying Troubled Projects
* Identify warning signs of a troubled project
* Describe causes of troubled projects
* Identify factors that lead to status suppression
* Explain the vale of the project review process
List and define the five steps of project recovery
* Identify project trigger points for project review
* Explain the project review process
* List and describe components of a project recovery plan
* Create a recovery plan
* Explain how to integrate the recovery plan with the project plan
* Identify methods to measure and monitor recovery
* Describe the activities and deliverables of a post project review for troubled projects
* Identify critical success factors for project recovery
Course Length: Half-Day
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Project Scope Management
* Project Cost Management
* Project Time Management
* Project Risk Management
* Project Human Resource Management
* Project Communications Management
Course ID: PM47732
Course Overview
There's a noticeable trend among top organizations – they are moving toward a project-oriented approach to managing their businesses. This half-day course is designed specifically for senior-level managers and executives that want to understand and appreciate the value project management can bring in helping to execute business strategies. Participants will obtain a more comprehensive perspective of the art of managing projects, the advantages and demands of implementing a project management culture, and the benefits of advancing organizational project management maturity. In addition, participants will see a demonstration of how best practices in project management can add consistency to the process of delivering quality products and solutions to customers on time, within budget, and ahead of the competition.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
* Describe the foundations of a project management culture
* Articulate the value of project management as it relates to the organization
* Describe the benefits of a project management approach
* Describe the stages of organizational project management maturity
* Identify the characteristics of managing projects from a strategic perspective
* Demonstrate an understanding of the various roles and responsibilities of executives and project managers
* Describe the typical life cycle of a project
* Demonstrate an understanding of the language of project management
* Identify the tools and techniques that make up industry best practices
Course Outline
Project Management Overview
* Define the characteristics of a project
* Define the purpose and the benefits of project management
Project Management Roles and Issues
* Define the roles of the executive, project sponsor, and project manager
Project management basics
* List and describe the five process groups of project management
o Initiation
o Planning
o Executing
o Monitoring/Controlling
o Closing
* Describe the framework components of each of the five process groups
* Identify ways to prioritize projects
* Explain how to analyze the network diagram for the project
* List and describe each of the components of the risk management process
* Identify questions to assist in assessing project status
Creating a Project Management Culture
* Describe foundations of a project management culture
* List five elements of a project organization
* Identify six steps for successful organizational change
* Describe how to assess project management maturity
- Course Length: 2 days
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Project Integration Management
* Project Communication Management
* Project Human Resource Management
Course ID: PM84437
Course Overview
Change management is not just a communication or awareness plan. Change management is a comprehensive effort to lead your organization through transformation. Most importantly, the transformation effort must be actively led and managed. In this one-day workshop, you’ll be introduced to concepts and techniques to help you effectively prepare your organization for the successful acceptance of cultural change that comes with major project implementations.
This workshop will highlight the key barriers to implementing effective project management change in your organization and solutions for overcoming those barriers. You’ll learn how to assess your organization’s readiness to accept change, including how change is understood and whether management is positioned to led the transition. You’ll also learn how to develop an effective change management action plan that includes creating a vision of the future as well as a path for transitioning to that future.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
* Explain key change management requirements and their application to project environments
* Articulate clear role requirements in change management
* Identify and mitigate typical barriers to effective change implementation
* Communicate a clear vision and goals for change
* Assess your organization’s readiness to accept change
* Create an effective organizational change management plan
Course Outline
* Change management overview
* Barriers to change
* Change management roles and responsibilities
* Assessing organizational change management action plan
* Change management benchmarking
- Course Length: 1 day
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Project Quality Management
Course ID: PM94882
Course Overview
In this interactive workshop participants will learn how to develop a scorecard to track on-going project management performance as well as the business impact of project management to their organization. Participants will learn the basics in setting up a measurement program designed to help improve project management performance as well as justify the organization's continued investment in project management.
This one-day workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to measurement. Participants will learn how to assess what’s performing well and what needs improvement to build a business case for project management improvement initiatives. Become proactive in implementing measurement strategies aimed at improving your organization’s project management performance.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
* Articulate the basic principles and terminology of measurement
* Recognize common barriers to implementing a measurement program and develop strategies to overcome them
* Identify and describe the major steps in the PM Measurement Framework
* Establish a good set of project management performance and value measures
* Create a scorecard/dashboard for collecting, analyzing, and reporting performance and value information
Course Outline
* Overview of Measurement
* Overcoming Barriers to Successful Measurement
* The PM Performance and Value Measurement Framework
* Measurement Planning
* Creating a PM Scorecard: Establishing and Updating Measures
* Lessons Learned in Implementing PM Measurement Program
Course Length: 1 day
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Project Communication Management
* Project Human Resource Management
Course ID: PM58483
Course Overview
A project manager’s results are only as good as their ability to accomplish tasks through other people. Getting team members to perform and inspiring them to contribute their best requires leadership competencies.
This two-day course on building leadership competencies will help a project manager construct better project relationships, create positive energy, acquire more meaningful projects, develop team leaders and use the power of servant leadership. Participants will master the techniques necessary to influence in a world of diversity, enhance creativity, learn to empower and motivate others to achieve higher levels of performance.
This course will help project managers get more out their project management careers, their certifications and their professional lives.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
* Describe leadership and leadership competency
* Develop trust based relationships with stakeholders and team members
* Develop a consultative leadership style
* Identify personal risk tolerance
Course Outline
Building your Leadership Competencies
* What is competency?
* Types of project management competency
* Project Management competency models
* Importance of compatibility as a prerequisite for trust
* Tools for establishing compatibility on projects - FAST
* Importance of trust and its relationship to leadership competency
* Overview of MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership competency pyramid
Building Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Project management knowledge, skills and experience
* Business context knowledge and expertise
* Acquiring subject matter expertise quickly
Trust-based Relationships
* Building trust-based relationships
* Characteristics/aspects/benefits of trust
* Project manager credibility
* Project manager reliability
* Emotional reliability and good meetings
* Project manager intimacy
* Project manager low self-orientation
* Listening
Consultative Leadership and the Importance of Advising
* Definitions, types of leadership
* Servant Leadership in project management
* Importance of advising
* How to advise properly
* Step-by-step advising
* Advising or persuading
How to Demonstrate Consultative Leadership
* Process of Consultative Leadership (5 steps)
* Engaging
* Framing – logical and emotional
* Visioning and creating
* Commitment
* Dealing with resistance
Managing Personal Risks
* Risk Attitudes and emotional literacy
* Environmental impact on risk attitudes
* Modifying risk attitudes
* Courage and self-confidence
* Fundamental choices and convictions
Course Length: 1 day
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Human Resource Management
Course ID: PM84737
Course Overview
In the late 1970s and early 1980s companies like General Foods, Volvo, and a few others made headlines when they formed teams to accomplish projects. Today it is considered a standard way of doing business. In order to achieve successful team projects it is critical that everyone from senior management to the customer to the team member understands what it will take to achieve success. Is a team really necessary? What are the roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder? How should team members be selected and managed? What happens when conflict arises? Is it possible to have a team performance evaluation?
This one-day workshop will introduce you to the concepts of how to effectively design, build, and manage a high performance team.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
* Determine when an individual approach or a team approach is appropriate
* Explain and apply leadership techniques
* Identify the necessary steps for successful team development
* Describe management’s role in team development and team dynamics
* Identify how to measure team effectiveness
* Demonstrate a working knowledge of Relationship Awareness® Theory
Course Outline
To have a team or not to have a team
* Describe the difference between a team and a group
* Determine when team approach is appropriate
* Determine when an individual approach is appropriate
How can teams be effective?
* Identify characteristics of effective teams
* Identify steps in creating effective teams
* Explain the role of management in creating effective teams
Selecting and shaping the team player
* Define and describe four basic motivational value systems
* Define and describe blends of motivational value systems
* Identify the five stages of team development
* Describe the relationship between value systems and conflict
* List and describe five methods for addressing conflict
How effective is the team?
* Describe measuring points to determine the effectiveness of teams
* Explain how to evaluate team performance
- Course Length: 1 day
PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas Covered:
* Project Integration Management
Course ID: PM58348
Course Overview
How does your PMO work with your organization’s executives to build an effective project and portfolio management culture? What are the roles and responsibilities needed for PMO success? How do you ensure that your portfolio of projects is aligned with your organizational strategies? How do you best report PMO performance for optimal decision-making by senior management? In this one-day workshop, you will be introduced to the concepts that will provide you the know-how to strategically govern your PMO for superior organizational performance.
The PMO has a two-way nature, integrating the organizations project and portfolio management environment with the overall business environment. PMO governance is those set of processes and practices that enable that integration leading to project and organizational success.
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
* Understand the various roles and responsibilities needed to integrate the organization’s project and portfolio management environment with the overall business environment
* Convene management and technical advisory boards and committees to collaborate in decisions and provide guidance to maximize PMO success
* Facilitate executive and senior management involvement in project and portfolio management
* Understand how to effectively align your portfolio of projects with your organizational strategy
* Report project, portfolio, and PMO performance to enable better decision making
* Show that your PMO adds value to the organization and gets results
Course Outline
* PMO Governance Roles & Responsibilities
* Executive Involvement in Project & Portfolio Management
* Strategic Alignment
* Measuring and Reporting Project & Portfolio Management Performance
* Adding Value and Getting Results
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