Two-day course
This highly interactive program examines how to develop critical project management skills. The emphasis is on real-world, practical applications developed through years of hands-on experience in world-class multinational organizations. The techniques are proven; the approach is sound; and the results are measurable.
Project managers, project leader, project engineers, managers, manufacturing engineers, managers, manufacturing engineers, directors, executives, and anyone interested in improving their project management skills
During this course, attendees will learn the following:
- The traits of effective project managers
- Why project management techniques of the past are no longer effective
- The critical differences between management and leadership, and why they are essential in today's project management environment
- The truth behind empowerment and how to avoid common pitfalls
- The power of cross-functional project teams, and how to control it for maximum results
- How to accurately gauge the degree of management commitment to the project
- How to uncover the explicit and implicit project expectations before making a commitment
- How to establish result-oriented performance metrics to guide your project
- Fundamental process control techniques that will help you stay on budget and schedule
- How to select the best members for your project team
- How to control and motivate the diverse talents within your project team
- How to uncover hidden agendas quickly, then diffuse them
- The tools and techniques to link your strategic and tactical plans for maximum results
- The importance of WBS, PERT, and Gantt charts to track your project
- How to utilize milestones to monitor your project's progress
- How to minimize risk proactively through quantitative measures
- The secrets of trade-off analyses to ensure the project is never compromised in the eyes of the customer
- How to isolate the true project definition and to distinguish it from the project deliverables
- The importance of documentation