Project Management for Non-Project Managers

QA Ltd.
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Slough, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Do you need to get better control of key business initiatives but can’t fight your way past the jargon of project management?
Do you need to understand and contribute to projects in your organisation but have no desire to become a project manager?
Would you like to have a better sense of control over what you and others are doing?
Do you want to set clearer objectives for yourself and others?
Would you like to be more proactive in your work and less reactive?
Are you trying to convince your staff of the benefits of project management?
This fun and highly interactive day uses a team based simulation to take you through the challenges of selecting, prioritising, and implementing service improvement projects in a way that lets you see immediately the organisational impact of the decisions you make. You will work in small teams in a safe but competitive environment and you will be amazed at how your confidence and performance improves dramatically as you move through the day. You will also see how the increase in personal performance delivers significant business benefit and so experience first hand why good project management is so crucial to delivering successful outcomes.

We will strip away the mystique and jargon and give you simple project techniques that you can apply immediately in your workplace to improve your personal effectiveness and increase the success of your key initiatives.

This event is equally powerful as a public course drawing together experiences from disparate participants, as it is providing a launch event for project management within a single organisation.

You will benefit from this course if you have to work with others to deliver business change, products or services to tight deadlines and want to learn the secrets of success. Also if you are working in or around projects and want to have more influence in how we deliver organisational benefit. You will also benefit if you just need to understand what project management is about and only have a day to do it!

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
see how your actions and decisions impact the ability of others to produce results
see how when everyone works together in a coordinated and transparent fashion suddenly great things can start to happen
learn and practise the basics of project management
acquire simple new tools as results
see how you can immediately start to better plan your own and other people’s work
see how a small amount of process applied intelligently can produce great benefit for your project and your organisation.

What does the course cover?
Introduction & Welcome

Participants will be introduced to one other and to the format of the day. The event uses a group simulation run over three rounds throughout the day, allowing participants to apply what they are learning and immediately see the impact.

Round 1 �Simulation

This session covers the first run of the simulation. Each participant will have a part to play within the team. Allowing them to not only experience a dynamic, time driven project environment first hand, but also to potentially do so from a completely new perspective. During the course of the simulation participants will be encouraged to note down areas for personal and team improvement.Round 1 �Debrief
Following round 1 of the simulation there will be debrief of lessons learned, particularly looking at:

How objectives were set and communicated.
How work was divided up and the need for defined roles and responsibilities.
Lines of reporting
Personal and team performance in a fast moving project.

Although the simulation will be used as the basis for discussion examples of similar situations will be drawn from the participant’s day-to-day work.

Round 2 �Preparation
Preparation for Round 2 will focus on looking at how work can be broken down, allocated to resources and scheduled. Participants will be encouraged to use the techniques discussed to build on the lessons learned in Round 1, as well as considering how they could be applied back at work. Consideration will also be given to different approaches for estimating.

Round 2 �Simulation
The second 30-minute round of the simulation will be run, using the feedback from the first round and the improved planning of the preparation time.

Round 2 �Debrief
Following round 2 of the simulation there will be debrief of lessons learnt, particularly looking at:

How the planning and preparation improved performance
The impact of unexpected events...
The need to manage and communicate changes.
Again examples will be drawn from the participant’s day-to-day work.
Round 3 �Preparation

Preparation for Round 3 will focus on looking at how we can identify and plan for uncertainty in a project. This will include looking at the degree to which risks can be reduced or removed from a project or encourage project opportunities. Consideration will also be given as to how to deal with potential changes to a project.

Round 3 �Simulation

The third 30-minute round of the simulation will be run, using the feedback from the first two rounds and the improved planning for change and uncertainty.

Round 3 �Debrief

Following round 3 of the simulation there will be debrief of lessons learned, particularly looking at how the consideration of change and uncertainty improved performance. Again examples will be drawn from the participant’s day-to-day work

Implementing Key Ideas

Breaking into sub-groups the participants will consider what they believe are the key lessons they have personally learnt from the day. They will then present to the group those lessons, as well as practical ways in which they will implement them upon returning to work. This part of the event will also allow for the group to celebrate their achievements. ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:0844 871 2080

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