SUCCESSFULLY MANAGING PROJECTS

Program Overview:

Successfully Managing Projects focuses on three skill sets that support successful project management:
1. A solid understanding of project management fundamentals
2. Effective leadership skills that support the management of a project, project client relationships, and project teams
3. Use of Microsoft Project For Windows (Version 4.1) for project planning, scheduling, and project tracking

Who Should Attend:

This seminar will be valuable to project managers, project coordinators, and project team members who need a common grounding and working knowledge of project management fundamentals, relationship management, and Microsoft Project for Windows. The workshop uses current participant projects as case studies.

What You Will Learn:

* Identify what is involved in a successful project
* Describe roles and responsibilities of the project manager
* Use a project life-cycle approach to planning your project
* Effectively involve and manage your clients in different project phases
* Define project success from management, team, and client perspectives
* Build a project plan identifying scope considerations, network requirements, and resource needs
* Employ project monitor and control techniques while adapting to changing business requirements
* Successfully close a project by meeting both contract and relationship requirements
* Explore your management and leadership styles
* Understand leadership as a dynamic relationship
* Identify critical leadership behaviors necessary to manage key events during the project life cycle
* Utilize effective communication strategies
* Implement critique techniques to increase project performance and increase client satisfaction
* Identify stages of team development and identify which leadership style is most effective with each stage
* Use Microsoft Project for Windows to manage your project