Project Management Skills

Introduction:

Many people take on a project management role alongside their other organizational responsibilities whilst others have dedicated project management roles. This Essentials on Project Management training course offers complete guidance in the essential knowledge, skills, and competencies of managing projects holistically and in how to adopt a project management ‘mindset’. This will include how to make use of best practice project management processes (based on the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge), tools and techniques as well as how to lead the people involved in and impacted by projects. This ensures that projects are conducted as efficiently as possible and meet the requirements and expectations of relevant stakeholders.

This training course explores how to ensure projects deliver outcomes which are both client-focused and organizationally relevant. It covers key aspects of project initiation, planning, monitoring and control to ensure the delivery of relevant scope and quality within time, budget, and resource constraints. It also considers how to manage uncertainty using risk management techniques.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Apply a project management ‘mindset’ to projects
• Write clear project initiation statements and manage risks
• Plan project quality, timescales, resources, and costs
• Monitor and control projects and project teams
• Deliver successful projects and lessons learned