Presented by
Falconbury
Project Management Skills
A four hour on-line course detailing proven techniques for all managers and directors who have to create, manage and control a project from creation to completion, effectively, efficiently and within budget.
- 7 Modules
Course overview
This four hour Personal Improvement e-learning course is a ‘must-take’ programme for anyone who has been given the responsibility of managing a project. It’s a daunting experience as many projects fail to produce the commercial and financial results that where expected. This is often due to poor planning, management and deliver of the project. This course will take you through the processes and monitoring tasks required to ensure the success of your project.
This training course is part of our collection of Leadership & Management Training Courses which focus on leadership, innovation, strategy, communication, finance, problem solving and conflict management, to name a few key areas.
Benefits
- Exceptional value at £49/€69 a module
- Buy now for your team and invite them to participate at any time of your choosing
- Doubles as a step-by-step guide and reference source of successful project management
- Available instantly to be taken on-line or printed off at your convenience
- Model answers to confirm your understanding of the subject
- Certificate of completion for your training records
- Ideal for training new members of the team
- Great for those requiring a quick refresher
Who should take this course
- Project managers
- Project engineers
- Commercial and contract managers
- Business development managers
- Sales and marketing managers
- Operations managers
- Technical managers
- Procurement managers
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Certificate of excellence
Participants are invited to undertake a final assessment in the form of an online multiple-choice paper. A pass rate of 80% and above is required to ensure that a high level of competency has been achieved within the subject area, where upon you will receive a ‘Certificate of Excellence’.
The Project Management Skills course will cover:
- Introducing project management
- The project manager
- Stages of a project
- Stakeholders
- Time, cost and quality
- Self-assessment
- Planning a project
- Dependencies
- New page
- Flowcharts
- Work breakdown structure
- Networks
- Gantt charts
- Choosing your software
- Schedules and milestones
- Budgets for projects
- Preparing estimates
- The project plan
- Self-assessment
- Building a team
- Team roles
- Team dynamics
- Communicating with your team
- Working within the organisation
- Self-assessment
- Project in progress
- Monitoring a project
- Progress reports
- Building in quality
- Working with stakeholders
- Leading people through change
- Dealing with problems
- Self-assessment
- The end of the project
- Delivering the goods
- Project closure
- Evaluation
- Self-assessment
- Final assessment
- Customer feedback form
Cathy Lake
After leaving Oxford University Cathy Lake MA (Oxon) worked for the educational publishers Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. Since 1976, she has worked as a freelance editor, writer and project manager. During the past two decades, she has taken part in, and also managed, almost every aspect of the publishing process. She has worked for most of the major national publishers and has written about 40 training manuals and textbooks, mainly on management and health-related topics. As well as writing for commercial publishers in the UK and abroad she has also written management development workbooks for corporate clients.
