Michael Welham

In the past, the general accord in organisations was that business management and project management were to two separate activities. More recently, the functional value of project management became the skills to provide the efficient and effective way of delivering a job that was sponsored by management. This course is designed to equip the participants with the tools and knowledge to evaluate and change processes to enhance their organisational performance through successful project management.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This practical and thought provoking course is designed for managers, operational professionals, and all those who are involved in driving change within their organisations through successful project management.

COURSE PROFILE

• Principles of project management

-          Forming a project plan

-          Critical success factors and risk management

• Preparation of project budgets 

-          Cash flow analysis

• Effective use of tools and techniques

-          Process mapping, gantt charts, milestones, critical path analysis

• Appraising computer based project management information systems
•  Building successful project teams

-          Leading a successful project

-          Communication and group decision making

-          Cross functional teams

-          Project monitoring and project change control

-          Responding to problems

• Effective ways of dealing and negotiating with contractors
• Directing and evaluating the project planning process
• Identifying the need for change

-          The market place and its demands

-          Competition’s effect on your sector of the market place

-          Company purpose, strategy and capacity for change

• Creating people-centred processes

-          Balanced Scorecard

-          Aligning services with customer needs

• Aligning business processes to change

-          Analysing and evaluating the effectiveness of current processes

-          BPM life-cycle: design, modelling, execution, monitoring and optimisation

-          Dividing the business into processes instead of functions

• Optimising technological processes

-          Modelling processes to identify opportunities

-          Budgeting, forecasting and profitability analysis

• Successfully implementing change

-          Constructing a roadmap

-          Gaining buy-in from employees and management

-       Recognising the barriers to change and how to deal with them

 

SKILLS ATTAINED

Skills attained

At the end of the course delegates will be able to:

 

• Know the fundamentals of successfully manage a project
• Understand how to innovative in problem solving
• Effectively make decisions and solve problems
• Business process mapping
• Business process analysis and evaluation
• Successfully introduce and lead change
• Develop and implement effective business processes