Classes
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Fundamentals of Project Management (2 days)
February 5-6, 2009, Thursday & Friday
$990 per person
This workshop is designed to provide project managers and project team members with the essential tools of project planning. Project templates are provided to support project initiation, definition, and planning. Participants will practice the following in project simulations:
- Project Stakeholder roles, responsibilities, political interests, and communication agreements
- Scope definition and deconstruction
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Forecasting technique (Effort & Duration estimates)
- Dependency analysis & Project Network
- Calculating the Critical Path
- Compressing the Critical Path
- Risk Analysis & Risk Management plan
- Gaining project sponsor approval
- Organizational structures and influences
- Templates for project planning
Leading and Directing Project Teams (2 days)
March 2-3, 2009, Monday & Tuesday
$990 per person
Effective leadership is crucial to the success of a company and the performance of a project team. As leaders of both, you are responsible for changing perceptions, providing stability and consistency, and integrity to the people that work with you and for you. This workshop is designed to help project leaders develop their leadership capabilities within the project environment. The Fundamentals of Project Management is required prior to taking this course. Participants will discuss and practice the following in project simulations.
- Distinguish between managers and leaders
- Know what you stand for
- Check the basics: purpose first, then processes & procedures
- Use your vision and what you know
- Use the organization to help you lead
- Influence others
Working Collaboratively in Teams (1 day)
April 3, 2009, Thursday
$495 per person
This course provides strategies for improving project team purpose, structure, and performance throughout the four phases of a project. Participants will discuss and practice the following:
- Team purpose, roles and responsibilities, and structure
- How to work collaboratively
- Stakeholder communication agreement
- Conflict resolution and negotiation procedure
Project Execution: Tracking, Controlling, Reporting, Closing & Fast-Tracking Projects (2 days)
April 23-24, 2009, Thursday & Friday
$990 per person
This workshop is designed to help project managers and team members improve their ability to track, control, report, fast-track, and close projects. Fundamentals of Project Management is required prior to taking this course. Participants will practice the following in project simulations.
- Develop strategies for dealing with stakeholder interests
- Define, measure, control, and report on team and project performance
- Develop strategies for taking corrective action
- Evaluate effectiveness of corrective action
- Troubleshoot and report on project status
- Respond to risk event triggers (execute the Risk Plan)
- Track and report on 'actual' versus 'plan' events
- Distinguish among status, progress, and forecasting reports and learn how to choose the most appropriate report for each stakeholder
- Identify essential elements for successful project meetings
- Discuss change control issues.
- Obtain formal acceptance of deliverables
- Fast-track this project and the next.
- Administrative closure
DISC Behavioral Styles and Emotional Intelligence (1 day)
May 4, 2009, Monday
$495 per person
This course uses the DISC styles (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, & Conscientiousness) assessment to help individuals understand more about their work styles and the styles of others. Participants learn how to use differences in styles to improve team performance, reduce conflicts, and improve communication skills. The course also introduces key strategies for dealing with emotions more creatively and productively rather than not dealing with them at all or pretending they don't exist in the workplace.
Critical Thinking, Analysis, & Problem Solving (1 day)
May 18, 2009, Monday
$495 per person
How sophisticated is your thinking? Are you often taken in by short, simplistic statements and labels? This course helps participants learn how to improve their ability to reason and think through complex problems and issues. An important component in critical thinking is the ability to see as many parts of the whole and integrate them into a global, inclusive view. Participants will also learn about irrational thinking, fallacies and pitfalls that prevent people from thinking and performing effectively.
Change Management: Managing Transitions of Change (1 day)
May 22, 2009, Friday
$495 per person
Participants will discuss and practice strategies and techniques for helping people move through the transitions of change. Using case simulations, participants will practice the following:
- Articulate the change (start line of the race)
- Help people let go (preparing to run the race)
- Help people move forward (running the race)
- Making changes stick (finishing the race & staying in shape for the next race.…)
Myers Briggs Personality Assessment
Appointment only
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is based on the work of clinical psychologist Carl G. Jung's personality type theory and the ways in which Myers and Briggs extended and clarified it when they created the MBTI instrument. MBTI will help you identify your preferences among four dichotomies: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuiting, Thinking-Feeling and Judging-Perceiving. The insight gained through this assessment increases self-knowledge which assists with interpersonal communication and dynamics and leadership confidence.
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