People and Projects

Short description

Training leadership of project management

A fully tailor-made project management course can be made available.

Successful project management combines three aspects: a professional approach to leading a project (the ‘ME’ component), collaboration and managing relations (how to work together, the ‘WE’ component) and use of the right management tools (the ‘IT’ component). This training starts with IT in module 1: the methods and techniques of project management. ME and WE are part of module 2.

Target group
As a participant, you should already be a project leader, project manager or team leader with responsibility for heading different projects and sub-projects. You wish to have better insight into the technical and structural aspects of project management. You will also improve your project management skills such as negotiation, communication and dealing with opposition.

Course content

Module 1: Method and techniques
In this module you will work on various group assignments and on a practice-based case project. The emphasis will be on setting up a project, for which you will make use of specific management methods. In addition, this module will also involve group dynamics and technical aspects.

This module deals with the following topics:

•  The principles of project management:
  • setting targets, planning in phases
  • project control and making decisions, included method and techniques
• Defining a business case: objective, project result and organisation
• Developing a project manual and planning: collaboration and leadership
• Decision-making and decision scales

Results
You will have insight into a project’s structural and technical aspects. You will be able to critically assess a project assignment and adopt a goal-oriented work approach. You will be able to divide projects into separate phases and set up a project organisation and communications structure. Based on the integration model, you will master a variety of management aspects, such as putting team members into action, acquisition, time factors, quality and cost issues.

Module 2: How to lead a project (skills improvement):
This module focuses on ‘learning through practical experience’. Experiences from within your own organisation serves as a starting point of the programme. 
The module deals with the following topics:

• Conversation interventions, heading a project team, dealing with tension and stress
• Exerting influence without unnecessary show of strength, creating support, negotiating and managing conflict situations, team-building, communication processes within a project.

Results
You will enhance your personal effectiveness as a project leader or project manager. You will improve your skills of negotiation and your ability to deal with resistance and conflicts of interest surrounding a project. You will be better aware of what has to be done in each phase of a project. In addition, you will know when and how to provide information to the client and other stakeholders. You will have various management styles at your disposal and be able to adapt these to manage individual project team members.