Project Management

Overview

Participants will enjoy a highly interactive hands-on, two-day project mobilisation workshop where the facilitators will replicate a real life project challenge; participants learn and practice in a safe, simulated project environment and go through a full project set up, working as a project team and engaging with a project sponsor to plan and achieve a common goal.

Participants will learn, practice and take away a set of simple but highly effective and fundamental project management techniques and templates that can be applied immediately to all types of projects – giving them the skills and confidence to rapidly apply the learning back in their workplace. This workshop is suitable for both novice and experienced project managers or complete project teams and is designed to aid the development of PM competence.

This workshop and Fast Forward approach to project management has been developed over many years and offers a unique facilitated hands on learning experience and a PM approach which is light touch and non bureaucratic giving a refreshing practical approach to PM which can be used to complement and bring to life the knowledge gained from other more formal PM accreditations such as Prince2TM, PMITM, APMPTM. It can also be used as a stand-alone project management approach to give participants a sound background and understanding of project management essentials.

Benefits and key factors

A simple, highly-effective, light-touch, non-bureaucratic approach which enhances other more
formal methodologies
Develop the skills and confidence through practice and application of practical PM tools &
techniques
Enable you to initiate, run and control a live project immediately on completion of the workshop
Improve the effectiveness of projects being managed by the more experienced
project managers and their teams
Help develop PM competencies – which are critical to the successful management of projects
Experience a unique, refreshing and fun facilitated learning event
Learn a unique, people-focused and collaborative team working approach to
project management
Receive the benefit of experienced tutors and practitioners who will share their real life PM experiences
The course can be in-house on client premises or at quality conference venues and customised to suit customer needs
Effective course numbers are between 6-16 participants
Materials, reference workbook and certificate of attendance are included
Free: Post workshop virtual (email / telephone) support
Optional: Facilitation, coaching and mentoring to support participants applying the approach on their real life projects
Optional: Access to our unique ‘Development Framework’ for further personal advancement

Workshop content

Exploring Projects – Project failure & good project management (Interactive session)
Overview of GDPM – A tutor led overview of a Goal Directed Project Management based approach
Developing project scope and objectives – Define scope, goal and objectives (Practical hands on exercise)
Milestone Planning – Developing a Milestone Plan on a page (Practical hands on exercise)
Human Factors in Change – Human response beneficial and negative changes (Interactive session)
Organise the Project – Stakeholder Management, People & Responsibility Matrix (Practical hands on exercise)
Control the Project – Managing Project Risk, Progress Reporting & Health-check (Practical hands on exercise)
Moving Forward – Group discussion on how to plan and use the learning and mobilise projects (Interactive session)
Articulating GDPM – Participants will consolidate their learning over the 2-day workshop (Practical hands on exercise)

This Practical Project Management workshop will enable you to:

Develop PM skills using a simple but effective project management approach
Practice the techniques in a safe environment
Understand the Human Factors associated with change
Apply the techniques to your projects immediately

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