Project Managment

Project Management
from Ordinary to Extra-Ordinary Project Delivery

Overview: Two-Day Workshop

How can proven project management best practices, skills, tools and techniques help you with effective management of any size project?

Today's organizations cannot afford project failure due to budget over-runs, missed deadlines, or unusable deliverables. Project teams are responsible for identifying goals, planning, executing, and delivering an effective, useable solution-on time and on budget. Your success in the oversight and coordination of projects can be traced to your project management approach.

This workshop will help you build competencies that will guide you in masterminding a project from ordinary to Extra-Ordinary success, beginning to end, with much more than attending to the countless details and assuring quality control.

Learn the nuts-and-bolts of project management: project visualization, planning, budgeting, scheduling, recruiting, delegating, communicating, dealing with changes, setbacks, customers, users, contractors, vendors and final project closure.

Workshop Objectives

Learn how to "visualize" your project, plan more effectively, implement your plans quickly, decisively, close down, wrap up and move on to another successful assignment.

Discover proven "real life" tools and techniques to be utilized in planning and managing projects of any size.

Discover the 4-most critical elements of Extra-Ordinary project management.

Learn how to involve the right team members during brainstorming, launch and project closure.

Understand the many roles you will play in Extra-Ordinary PM: big-picture thinker, smart scheduler, savvy negotiator, coach, wise counsel, recruiter, cheerleader.

Develop your Extra-Ordinary skill sets required to: draw up a game plan, give assignments, correct mistakes, applaud wins, deal with losses.

Learn how to become a skilled diplomat who can jockey for more resources, different deadlines, fewer changes.

Discover some best practices, lessons learned, what went right, wrong and could be improved for the next project delivery.

Determine how to apply different project management methodologies depending on Project Categories, Priorities and Resource Organization requirements.

Develop a dynamic project Model that will be used to continuously optimize your business development process.

Processes to involve the end user (customer) in your project planning and management life cycle, to manage project priorities and control scope changes.

The knowledge of how to structure the project data at the planning stage, to communicate effectively, critical information at the right level of detail to the appropriate levels in your project team and organization.

Learn how to communicate an Extra-Ordinary Executive Overview to provide key managers and executives with a better understanding of the steps they can take to improve their involvement with the project management process.

Workshop Techniques:

Open session lecture with material presentations.
Participant discussion and group interaction.
Games, role-playing, exercises and what ifs.
Group and individual learning activities.

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