Managing Projects Successfully

Managing Projects Successfully

Project leadership and team skills play an essential part in developing an organization that is fit to meet the demands of the future.

Many managers now recognise that an inconsistent approach to project management across their organisation is undermining their potential for success. Definitions of project terms, leadership of projects and the management of project progress can be interpreted differently in different departments. This can lead to misunderstandings and stress when critical deadlines are not met.

A jml Training project management course will enable you to consider fundamental issues of project management in relation to the needs and culture of your organisation.

jml Training can help you identify and tackle barriers to effective project management, and define and agree your project management approach. It will help you to arrive at solutions for improving the delivery of successful quality driven projects.

This is a highly participative and practical project management course. A key function of the course is to provide participants with the skills to build effective project teams and manage stakehoders. It tackles the sensitivities of managing staff in cross sectional teams and explores the challenge of project co-ordination.

Participants will use a ready made format of template documents that can be refined to fit most projects.

Course objectives

For participants to do:

Understand how individual projects contribute to overall organisational achievement
Write a project plan
Identify how to manage risks in projects
Develop skills in planning, monitoring and communicating to control and achieve successful projects
Identify and develop the competencies of effective project managers
Explore the challenge posed to managers by multiple project co-ordination

Programme Options

Project initiation - Developing a systematic approach to project management

Project planning - Building the project plan, assigning tasks and allocating resources

Project implementation - Identifying project challenges, risk analysis and management

Managing and controlling progress - Project monitoring systems

Managing quality and change - Outputs, monitoring project definition, acceptance tests

Closing the project - Post project review and evaluation

Managing that project that goes awry - Getting back on track

Managing the challenge of multiple project co-ordination

Building and leading the project team - Effective communication within and between teams, leadership styles, impact of micro-managing

Motivating the project team

Mapping and managing key Stakeholders relationships

Creativity and problem solving, decision-making and project management

Contact jml Training to discuss how we can provide Managing Projects Successfully Training to your organisation either by email or ( + 44 (0)1494 488 787 today.

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