Overview

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In order to successfully manage a project, Project Manager need certain skills, such as the ability to determine the best project management methodology (task management), the ability to lead teams and individuals ("power skills"), and professional business and technical knowledge of the industry to which the project relates. It is also necessary to understand the main business, technological, economic and geopolitical trends that shape the world, because events from the external environment can positively or negatively affect the implementation of the project and how to deal with resilience to change.

But, one of the most important challenges is how to choose right approach to deliver project in complex environment in a flood of many different methodologies.

What you need is CREATIVITY!

 

Main goal of this training is to give participants diverse knowledge from many different disciplines in order to connect the dots and become creative when leading projects.

 

Topics that will be addressed in this training are: understanding bussiness environment and context in which projects are delivered, assess resilience to change, project governance and methodologies (traditional agile, hybrid), what are the processes and knowledge areas used to prepare, plan, execute, monitor and close the project.

Participants will aso gain intospective in their leadership style throughout Disc Flow® tool and explore leadership skills for leading project teams. Also, different practices from coaching and mentoring will be trained to boost even more leadership skills.

Fundamentals of change management practices will be covered in order to anticipate uncertainty.

 

During each session, templates of different artifacts will be explained and those will be used by participants to prepare and present real project examples on each training session.

 

Variety of teaching methods will be used: from basic explanations of terms and concepts, exercises, working on case studies, individual work on real project and presentation to other participants.

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Mentor will be available during overall process for questions, discussions and suggestions from participants via e-mail communication, telephone or IM group. Also at the end of overall training, each participant will have individual mentoring session with mentor to gain feedback about prepared project case study.

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Through this training, participants will master many different, tried-and-tested creative techniques for successfully leading different projects.

 

Prerequisites

None

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Target Audience

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• Individuals for whom project management is a completely new field: technologists, researchers, students, executives, business development managers.

• Entrepreneurs who live from their projects will receive in one place practical advices and tools on how to successfully implement initiatives in their company.

• Professionals taking over their first project: team leaders, project administrators, project coordinators, business analysts, solution architects, planning managers, quality managers, product owners, scrum masters, project support roles.

• Experienced Project Managers or team members who want to exchange best practices and get news perspectives on how to be more creative when leading projects.

 

Objectives

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Main objective of this training is to introduce creative approaches in delivering projects from different disciplines and to discover together with participants how to use them on their own project case studies. 

For each session (exept 1st) participants will need to prepare and present what they discovered and put into use on real project example from previous session. Each participant will describe her/his findnings and feedback troughout discussion will be provided.

Mentor will explain concepts, examples of best practices and advices for each session topic and provide tried and tested templates for practical work.

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Learning outomes:

• Discovering creative ways how to lead your own initiative.

• At the end of training, you will have prepared project documentation and heads up how to continue further with your project.

• Practice presentation skills by preparing and delivering presentation.

• Recognizing your own communication style and EI potential troughout Disc Flow® Core report with EI profile.

• You will be better prepared to prepare and deliver future projects in your company.

• You will earn 35 educational hours of project management education that can be used for certification holders or prerequisite for PMI certification application.

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Training outline

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This 2 months training programme, with 8 days training sessions will cover following topics:

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Session 1: Project Delivery Framework

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After this topic the participants will learn what to expect from the training. Participants expectations and requirements will be discussed and ground rules for training aligned.

Also, the participants will learn about origins of project management, lessons learned from history, understand the project environment and tailor the "right approach" for project management way of working and project delivery governance. Foundational project management concepts will also bi covered on this session.​

 

Date: 12.9.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 95 EUR

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Session 2: Business Environment & Project Management Trends: lifecycles, processes, artifacts in predictive and adaptive environments

 

This topic addresses the concepts and business areas that you should understand before starting a project, determining the purpose and expectation for the project, as well as the parameters and expectations of the project within the business. Participants will also get acquainted on how projects align with business strategy, what are the types and of business value delivered throughout projects, describe change management theory and its relation to organizational change and discuss different lifecycles that can be used to structure project delivery.

At this session, participants will present results of their research from previous session.

 

Date: 19.9.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 95 EUR

 

 

Session 3: Project Preparation and Planning

 

After this topic the participants will learn what are key activities in the project initiation/envisioning phase, how to start a project and make analysis of project scope, schedule and budget. Also, key project artifacts will be discussed and explained on practical examples: project charter, product vision statement, stakeholder register, etc. Also, best practices and examples of kick off meeting preparation and presentation will be presented.

 

Students will also learn what is importance of a project management plan and how to prepare it with all important elements: scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks and finally putting it all together and figuring out how to make it work, including approach to complexity and change.

After this session participants will be able to start preparation of their own project case study.

 

Date: 26.9.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 95 EUR

 

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Session 4: Project Delivery, Monitoring and Closing

 

After this topic participants will know what is the role of the Project Manager in the executing/delivery phase and how to monitor key aspects of the project: scope, communication, risks, issues and change. Also, key activities how to close project will be covered.

After this session participants will be able to start preparation of their own project monitoring report and get feedback on their own project plans.

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Date: 3.10.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 95 EUR

 

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Session 5: Agile Practices in Leading Projects

 

During this lesson participants will be acquainted with basic agile terms, agile principles and methodologies and agile project life cycle, what is difference between predictive and adaptive projects and how to initiate and plan agile project. Also, one of the most used agile frameworks for delivering projects – Scrum, will be explained.

After this session participants will be able to research at least one agile practice that can be used on their project and will get feedback from mentor and other participants.

 

Date: 10.10.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 95 EUR

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Session 6: Leadership skills for Project Managers 

 

After this topic participants will be familiar how to use different interpersonal skills for leading the project team, how to manage stakeholders expectations and solve problems. 

On this session students will also be able to analyse their own Disc Flow® Core report with EI profile and prepare KSS plan for communication and emotional intelignece actions or behaviours.

 

Date: 17.10.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 155 EUR

 

 

Session 7: Coaching practices in project environment 

 

After this topis participants will gain insight into the application of coaching practices in a business and a project environment, in the areas of communication, relationships, influence, resistance, team leadership, problem solving and creativity. 

After this session, participants will be able to use at least two different coaching techniques to improve communication, problem analysis and influence on stakeholders.

 

Date: 24.10.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 100 EUR

 

 

Session 8: Change Management practices for Project Leaders

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During this topic participants will take change resilience self-assessment and will learn how to better deal with changes in their enviornment and on their projects. Fundamentals of change management framework will be discussed and change assessment tool will be introduced.

After this session, participants will also be able to prepare final project case study from overall training in a form agreed with mentor for their own project and get feedback on project documentation on 1 individual session with mentor.

 

Date: 31.10.2024.

Duration: 4 hours

Price: 100 EUR

 

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Session 9: Individual mentorship with each participant

 

Date: as agreed with participant

Duration: 2 hours

Price: part of overall training

 

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Participants can choose on which sessions they want to participate or can participate on overall program. Sessions are not recorded.

 

During the training all participants will get:

• Deep understanding how to use different approaches and skills to lead and manage inititives accross organization.

• Disc Flow® Core report with EI profile.

• 1 additional individual session with mentor for feedback on project case study.

• 35 educational hours of project management education that can be used for certification holders or prerequisite for PMI certification application.

• Certificate of attendance.

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Training Schedule

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• Session 1: Project Delivery Framework: 12.9.2024.

• Session 2: Business Environment & Project Management Trends: lifecycles, processes, artifacts in predictive and adaptive environments: 19.9.2024.

• Session 3: Project Preparation and Planning: 26.9.2024.

• Session 4: Project Delivery, Monitoring and Closing: 3.10.2024.

• Session 5: Agile Practices in Leading Projects: 10.10.2024.

• Session 6: Leadership skills for Project Managers: 17.10.2024

• Session 7: Coaching practices in project environment : 24.10.2024.

• Session 8: Change Management practices for Project Leaders: 31.10.2024.

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Training price

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The price of an individual session is indicated in each session. 

Total individual price for program of 8 sessions: 830 EUR.

The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 7 participants.

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