Training & Coaching
Most project management training provides instruction in most or all of the following topics:
- The basic principles involved in good project management
- How to define and agree requirements, project scope and achieving a baseline click here
- Project Governance
- Stakeholder management
- Roles and responsibilities
- Planning, estimating, contingencies, work breakdown structures
- Managing change
- Contracts or agreements
- Reviewing, Risk and Quality Management
- Project Management tools eg: MS project
- Project Management Methodologies (eg: Prince2)
- Project support
We are pleased to offer tailored courses for all of these very important topics for project managers and project support staff to learn about.
However, there are some vital skills missing from this list that can have a major impact on project delivery. These include:-
- Soft skills - projects are delivered by people and their attitudes can make a massive difference to the success of the project. At worst, people who are resistant or pursuing their own agendas can make the project fail, though even just an attitude of indifference can pose a serious risk. On the other hand, when people are managed well, within the project management process and structure, they can overcome great difficulty and help deliver a project 'against the odds'.
- Managing expectations - the importance of identifying a projects stakeholders and managing their expectations cannot be overstated and whilst simple techniques and tools can provide a framework it will be the attitude and communication skills deployed by the project manager that will make or break a project.
- Building a team and gaining commitment - every successful project depends on its ability to have unswerving commitment to the achievement of its objectives and outcomes together with good team work and common purpose
ProjectSmart is able to offer specifically tailored mentoring and coaching through its highly knowledgeable and skilled staff to ensure that you get the best out of your staff to achieve successful outcomes in your projects.