Project Management

Executing Strategy through Effective Project Management

This course focuses on using the best in project management theory to serve as a platform for executing excellence within the work environment. The course looks at the full spectrum of a project from initiation documents to lessons learned and incorporates actual projects to demonstrate how successful projects lead to faster and more efficient execution. Students finish the course not only understanding the basics of project management but also how project management delivers tangible benefits.

Overview: 2 days with 14 PDUs

How attendees will benefit:

• Participants are encouraged to bring ongoing projects into the course.
• Real life examples are worked on throughout the two days by small teams coached by the facilitator.
• At the completion of the course, several projects have been re-planned and are ready for execution.

This program will show you how to:

• Identify the value of project management in participants’ specific workplaces.
• Take part of the course and apply it immediately to what participants are doing right now.
• Understand how project management can be utilized in executing strategies.
• Articulate the importance of stakeholder management and how it is to be executed.
• Articulate the project management process and flow.

Some of the topics to be covered:

• Differences between product and project management
• Tools and techniques that can be applied immediately to work environments
• Qualities of superior Project Managers
• Team dynamics and the power of teams

Who should attend?

Managers from both the private and public sectors that have been assigned project responsibility and have completed an Introduction course. Managers and executives with responsibility for diverse projects such as construction, computer and high technology, medical and pharmaceutical, mergers and acquisitions, strategic and long-range organizational planning, and reengineering projects.

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