Understanding Management
Course description :
Understanding Project Management
Project management isn’t just for construction engineers and military logistics experts anymore. Today, in addition to the regular duties of your job, you are often expected to take on extra assignments - and to get that additional job done well, done under budget, and done on time. This workshop is not intended to take you from a supervisory or administrative position to that of a project manager. However, these three days will familiarize you with the most common terms and the most current thinking about projects.
How You Will Benefit:
You will understand what “projects” are and how they are becoming a part of organizational thinking.
You will identify your role as project manager and the skills required of you.
You will recognize the steps you must take to keep budgets on track and on budget.
You will identify the key factors in project success.
You will establish guidelines for building and controlling a budget.
You will become more skilled at presenting ideas and asking for feedback.
You will identify techniques for helping your project team work together.
What You Will Cover:
Defining a project
Project life cycles
Selling your own project ideas
Role & skills of the project manager
Setting project goals
Why projects fail and how to avoid this
Risk and contingency planning
Creating network diagrams
Building a winning team
Managing meetings
Building a budget and controlling costs
