Course Features

Wonder what project management is and why you should support it in your organization? How helpful would it be to understand your unique role in making projects successful? Walk out of this course with an understanding of how senior management can increase project success.

This informative and fun course answers these and other questions you have been wondering about—without wasting your valuable time or insulting your intelligence.

Created by one of the world’s experts in project management, this course deals with Tricks of the Trade® for project management from your point of view. Not only will you learn what project management is, but also hear what project managers feel are the things that are getting in their way and causing project failure. Walk away with a project management methodology. Learn in a short period of time what really makes a difference.

After this course, you will be able to help complete projects faster, easier, cheaper, and with fewer resources. You will be able to apply advanced Tricks of the Trade® and use common project management terminology.

This course will utilize discussion, analysis, and exercises to accelerate your learning. You will walk out of the class understanding what has been taught. Checklists with specific actions for you and a detailed reference workbook are provided.

This class can be scheduled from 1 ½ hours to 6 hours. A 1 ½ hour session is more of a speech than an interactive class. 6 hours is recommended, in order to achieve real learning. The class may be customized to your needs.

Why Take This Course?

• Fast-paced, interactive, and fun environment with lots of content focused on your perspective.
   
• Learn how to prevent whining, complaining, and “yes-ing” from your project managers.
   
• Get tricks for getting project managers to work with you instead of against you.
   
• We guarantee that you will learn something of value in the first hour.
   
• In one company, managers had to be begged to attend this session. They found the session so valuable that there was a long waiting list the next time this class was offered.

Course Outline

• Understanding Project Management
• Why support project management?
• Roles and responsibilities in project management

 
• The process of project management
• Project Initiating
• Senior Manager's role during project initiating
• What should happen during project planning process
• Senior Manager's role during project planning
• What should happen during project executing and controlling
• Senior Manager's role during project executing and controlling
• What should happen during project closing
• Senior Manager's role during project closing

 
• Insider information on why managers do not support project management

• Secrets to getting management to fulfill their role and to support project management

• Bringing it home - create an action plan for making it happen in your company