Learning solutions

"For a project manager to learn they need to hear from accomplished practitioners – not trainers. It’s not just facts or knowledge, it’s the approach and the values that the project managers have to adopt to perform at their very best."

Our research into what makes a good project manager, combined with our understanding of how people learn, and using highly skilled project management practitioners who are also expert presenters and facilitators, guarantee that we can develop learning solutions for all levels of experience and capability.

Learning, to have an impact, must relate effortlessly to the situation of the participant – and it must be memorable. To achieve this we have found that it is essential to customise the learning materials and the learning approach to match your organisation, level of experience, and culture. Using a wide variety of approaches and styles: from the ‘seminar’, with its lecture-based discussions to ‘active’ learning through casework and interactive simulations, our tutors can tell, show, create surrogate experiences and challenge the learners, leaving a lasting impression, and fostering accelerated learning that is deployed rapidly in the workplace.

Clients turn to us with many concerns; typically you ask for our help to:

Design PPM training based on your way of managing projects and programmes
Create consistent development pathways / frameworks for project and programme managers throughout the business
Embed consistent use of processes and project management language
Implement consistent and/or appropriate application of methods
Understanding which competences need to be developed in project or programme managers
Embed formal sponsorship governing project performance and benefit delivery
Improve your PPM community image / create a profession
Accredit project managers to recognised industry bodies
Align capability and competence with business need
Support project managers to run projects reliably by accessing qualified coaches or mentors
Match your people’s capability to the portfolio of projects and programmes you have planned
Build internal capability to deliver your complex projects of the future

The techniques and services we develop our tailored solution from include:

Beyond method courses and tailored learning solutions, covering areas such as:

Project management for non-project managers / Introducing project management
Making projects work for you
Advanced project management
Senior executive briefing
Portfolio management
Delivering programmes
Management of change
Running a project and programme support office

Master classes and tailored events:

Benefits management
Conducting health checks
Contract & supplier management
Estimating
Requirements management
Monitoring and control, including using earned value management
Programme management awareness
Project initiation and planning
Project management awareness
Project success through people
Risk management
Sponsor briefing
Stakeholder engagement

Accredited courses:

APM Certificated Project Manager (CPM)
APM Practitioner Qualification
APMP (Pathway and Fastrack)
APM Introductory Certificate
APM Bok workshops
PRINCE2™ *Practitioner
MSP™ ** (Foundation, Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner)
MSc in Managing Major Projects (PGCert & PGDip also available)

Learning solutions and consulting services:

Training needs analysis
Project or programme manager profiling
Tailored assessment / develoment centres
Bespoke sponsor or executive workshop facilitation
Sponsor mentoring
PPSO coaching
Programme manager coaching
Project manager coaching
CMMI coaching
Customisation and tailoring of client materials or guides
User guide training / workshop facilitation

Guides:

Change management guidebook and toolkit
Sponsor guidebook
Programme management guidebook
Project management guidebook
Requirements guidebook
e-PPSO guide

* PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce

** MSP™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce