Project Management Fundamentals 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 ‘Project Management Fundamentals’ 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

Project management isn’t just for construction engineers and military logistics experts anymore. Today, in addition to the regular duties of your job, participants are often expected to take on extra assignments – and to get that additional job done well, done under budget, and done on time. This workshop is not intended to take them from a supervisory or administrative position to that of a project manager. However, this one-day workshop will familiarize participants with the most common terms and the most current thinking about projects.

Highlights of what participants will learn:

• Understand what is meant by a project and project management;
• Identify benefits of projects;
• Identify the phases of a project’s life cycle;
• Enhance your ability to sell ideas and make presentations;
• Prioritize projects;
• Begin conceptualizing their project, including goals and vision statements;
• Use a target chart and other planning tools;
• Complete a Statement of Work

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.
• Defining Projects and Project Management To begin the day, we will look at what a project is and what project management means. We will also look at some of the key players in a project team.
• The Role of a Project Manager This session will examine some of the key skills that a project manager needs. We will also look at developing a proposal.
• How Can Projects Help Me? Often, people see projects as just more work to do. However, if managed properly, projects can provide tremendous growth and satisfaction for all those involved. We will look at some of the benefits and challenges of projects in a lecture and a case study.
• A Project’s Life Cycle This session will explore the four major phases of a project. Participants will complete a mix-and-match exercise to reinforce the concept.
• Selling a Project If you can identify a project that will bring benefits to your company, that’s great. However, getting support for that project can be a whole other story. This session will look at some ways to prioritize and sell projects.
• Creating a Vision Before you start planning a project, you must know what you want the project to achieve. The best way to do this is to create a vision statement. We will discuss what a vision statement is and how to create one. Then, participants will work in small groups to create a vision for a sample project.
• Project Goals This session will discuss the six key parts to a project goal. Then, participants will write some goals for a project they are working on.
• Using a Target Chart A target chart can help you identify the biggest priorities in your project and help you see how to achieve your goals. This session will explore how to create and use a target chart.
• Preparing Your Project Once you have decided which project to promote to others and identified your vision and goals, there are some considerations you want to be prepared for. Participants will discuss six key considerations in small groups.
• Laying out the Project Now that we have a good idea of what our project will entail, we can create the charter and statement of work. We will also look at using a project planning worksheet.
• 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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