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Project courses overview
Our courses for the project community are tailored for three different audiences: project experts who are required to manage projects that are seen as major or complex; project practitioners who are or need to manage a single-domain project, such as an IT development, a marketing campaign, or the fabrication of a wind farm; and non-project managers, such as work package managers or business managers, who need to understand the dependencies project managers have on them as subject matter experts, to ensure project success.
Beyond method development programmes
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Running business projects
As a result of the workshop, participants are confident that they can plan their project and task people to get the job done. They know which techniques work best and what they need to do to deliver to time, to cost and to the standard required.
- Making projects work Aimed at developing project managers, this workshop will provide you with a set of techniques and tools to plan and run projects successfully. Highly action-orientated, the workshop uses real case studies to broaden your bandwidth of experiences. Group work and discussions ensure that you are involved in management decision making and presentations to senior management.
- Managing complex projects This course is for those project managers who need the additional disciplines required to manage complex or cross functional projects. You will have a good understanding of core project management techniques such as planning, estimating and initiation and now need to focus more on the politics of projects such as stakeholder engagement and understanding the business problem.
- Creating valuable project and programme support offices This course describes best practice, focusing on what makes a support office successful and how to drive up its value. Distinguishing between project and programme support offices, identifying the different expectations, tools, techniques and roles they play, will also be part of your curriculum.
Key techniques in project management
- Creating compelling business cases Business cases are often the only basis for making a decision about where to spend money and effort in projects and programmes. This course informs you about how to build and critique business cases for maximum strategic benefit.
- Mastering the art of stakeholder engagement Managing stakeholders well is the cornerstone of project success. A well-planned project places the objective identification, evaluation, engagement and management of key stakeholders at the centre of the plans. This course will give you the skills to do this successfully.
- Managing contracts and suppliers for success Most project managers contract in or outsource an element of their project but this adds additional complexity. In this master class you will learn the additional disciplines and experiences necessary to successfully run or supply into contractual projects.
- Project success through people A project team can be made up of superb resources but if they are not correctly orchestrated by the project manager the project can't succeed. This two day master class exposes you to the complex people aspects of managing projects or programmes. It examines how you should manage, influence, lead and direct each of the major stakeholder groups and make the most effective use of the people involved with your project.
- Successfully embedding change The success of a project is not truly felt by the organisation until the change is embedded. This key techniques course shows you the differences between 'real' and 'fake' change in an organisation and how to embed change so it sticks.
- Effective project assurance The ability to review and provide feedback on the status of a project is a valuable skill for any senior project manager conducting peer reviews. This course provides a consistent approach to project health checks and shows how best to feedback to the project manager.
- Coaching Coaching allows you to address a particular development need, project challenge or personal concern in a safe one-to-one environment. The learning and outcomes of the coaching session are immediately applied to your current projects allowing you to show immediate value from the investment and addressing any barriers to application in the live project environment.
APM Qualifications
- APM Introductory Certificate Successful candidates will be able to understand the language of project management and the structure of a successful project. They will be able to take an active part in a project team and make a positive contribution to any project environment. Delegates will be prepared to take the Introductory Certificate in Project Management at the end of this course.
- APMP Fastrack The APMP Fastrack is for those individuals who want to gain the APMP qualification. It is an intensive course so we recommend that delegates have at least 1 year's experience as a project manager. APMP assesses the candidate’s breadth of knowledge in all areas of project management, from strategic and commercial implications, to the technical, organisational, and people management skills required to participate effectively within a project team. This course is also appropriate for those who are PRINCE2 registered and would like to take the APMP for PRINCE2 practitioners.
- APM PQ The APM Practitioner is for project managers, project co-ordinators and team leaders with three to five years experience in managing non-complex projects, or those who have completed a CITI course to at least the CITI project practitioner (Making Projects Work) level.