Team Building Inc.

The Effective Project Management Workshop
 

Teams in today's workplaces are involved in a multitude of change projects from designing new products and systems to simply revamping their own work processes. But many of these teams have never been trained in managing such projects, and therefore, struggle with meeting project deadlines or even completing them at all.

This valuable training session helps teams elevate their project management skills. The Effective Project Management Workshop is a 2- or 3-day session that takes participants through the vital steps necessary for successfully managing projects.

The session uses extensive participant involvement to create training that is not only practical and enlightening, but also experiential for maximum transfer of skills.

The session also comes with a specially-designed Project Tool Kit on diskette for each participant.

Why not give your teams the skills they need to move their projects along more effectively and efficiently? Increase your team project completion rate, reduce the time involved, and eliminate frustration.

Or, let us train your project managers or we'll certify you to train them. Either way, your organization wins.

Workshop Outline

Introduction to Project Management
Seminar Objectives and Outline
Excellent and Weak Project Management
Project Phases and Life Cycle
Case Study-Project Planning Situation
Impacting Project Success
Barriers to Project Planning

Initiate/Analyze
The Project Strategic Plan - Charter, Objectives, Scope, Constraints
How to use the Mindmapping Tool
Preparing for "Special" Project Strategic Plan Issues
A Tool to Evaluate the Project Potential
The Project Manager's Role
Building Teamwork in the Project

Design
The Work Breakdown Structure Planning
1. Identify all Activities/Tasks
2. Estimate Time Durations
3. Determine Interdependencies with Flow Chart
4. Assign Responsibilities with a Gantt Chart
5. Analyze Corresponding Costs
How to Negotiate Project Problems
How to Develop Your Power Base
How to Use Assertive Skills

Control
Developing the Baseline Plan and gaining authorization
Evaluating Risks and Planning Contingencies
Making Your Meetings Productive
Effective Time Management without More Time

Implement
To Pilot or Not to Pilot?
Project Monitoring with the Project Issue Log tool
Resolving Problems through the Force Field
Leading Change
Maintaining Motivation of the Project Team

Conclusions
Conducting a Closure Meeting/Reporting Results 
Personal Action Plan

Comments from a recent session for an electric utility:

- Provided very good, logical methods for developing, stat using and implementing projects.

- This course provides the fundamentals of project management. In the past, we learned a piece here and a piece there. This is a complete set of knowledge I need for the job I do every day.

- ...wish I would have seen this 2 years ago.

- This workshop has given me new tools with which to build new skills to interact with my peers.