Advanced Project Management Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Advanced Project Management’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

It’s easy to forget the “manager” part of the “project manager” title amongst all the activity during a project. However, it is crucial that participants hone their management skills as they are an important part of their success as a project manager. There are also some advanced project management techniques that they can master to help bring their projects to the next level. These are the two areas that we will focus on in this one-day workshop.

This workshop presumes that you have a thorough understanding of project management, including topics such as preparing a statement of work, setting project goals, scheduling, budgeting, managing project risks, and executing a project.

Over the course of this workshop, participants will learn:

• Think critically when choosing a project team;
• Make the best of an assigned project team;
• Help teams move through various stages to become a high-functioning machine;
• Maximize productivity at team meetings;
• Reward and motivate your team;
• Develop and execute a communication plan;
• Communicate with sponsors and executives more effectively;
• Identify problem team members and strategies for working with

Target audience

Our courseware is primarily purchased by five types of trainer; HR managers, corporate trainers, private training firms, educational institutions, or private consultants. The target audience varies on the instructor and the type of training required by a particular organization.

The students for this course are usually training staff or managers involved in training.

Course contents

• Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• Choosing the Project Team This session covers some things to consider when choosing a project team and how to make the best of an assigned team. Other topics covered include the pre-assignment review, assigning the project work, negotiating for the people you want, and preparing for team problems.
• Building a Winning Team In this session, we will discuss why teamwork is so important. We will also look at Tuckman and Jensen’s four stage team development model: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
• Team Meetings Most projects should have a defined timeline for team meetings. First, project managers meet with the individual members of the team. Then, the project manager meets with the team as a whole. Next, the first status meeting occurs. This session will discuss all of these meetings in detail, plus some general meeting management tips.
• Nine Easy Ways to Reward Your Team One challenge many project managers face is how to keep the team motivated during the project. We discuss nine ways project managers can keep the team moving and performing at their best.
• Developing a Communication Plan To ensure your project’s success, you must include a communications plan as part of your initial project planning. This plan will cover the who, when, why, what, and how of your communications with various project members throughout the whole project.
• Communicating with Sponsors and Executives Your project sponsor and executives are key members of your team. Typically, they provide the authority and the resources to execute your project. During this session, we will discuss some ways to effectively communicate with your sponsor and executives.
• Dealing with Problem Team Members Have you ever had a team member that kept running to the sponsor with every little problem? Or a member who never had anything positive to say? We’ll look at a number of problem team members and identify how to turn their problem characteristics into team strengths.
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan

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