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Introduction

This five-day program covers a variety of advanced topics that will help you improve your ability to satisfy your stakeholders’ success criteria. You will learn how to evaluate your own performance as a project manager, how to identify organizational weaknesses that interfere with benefits realization, and how to recognize and compensate for weaknesses in Critical Path analysis.

In addition, you will learn a structured approach to identifying, selecting, and managing contracts; how to use project dynamics to address intractable problems; and how to analyze and understand cultural differences that so often cause problems in multinational projects.

Approximately 50% of class time is devoted to casework and experiential learning. During hands-on exercises, you will work as part of a team to solve a technically challenging project, and to apply the techniques of win-win negotiating to a challenging case study.

Objectives

Upon completion, you will be able to:

• Evaluate your own performance as a Project Manager against objective criteria
• Appraise your organization’s overall project management competence
• Explain why critical path analysis almost always underestimates the project duration
• Identify the basic elements of a contract
• List the eight factors that cause most contract disputes
• Differentiate common contract types
• Assess corrective action using systems thinking concepts
• Address cultural differences within your project team

Who Should Attend?

These programs are designed for individuals who have or expect to have responsibility for leading or managing a project, subproject, or project phase. Newcomers will learn new skills. More experienced managers will enhance their ability to apply what they already know.

Training Method

• Pre-assessment
• Live group instruction
• Use of real-world examples, case studies and exercises
• Interactive participation and discussion
• Power point presentation, LCD and flip chart
• Group activities and tests
• Each participant receives a 7” Tablet containing a copy of the presentation, slides and handouts
• Post-assessment

Program Support

This program is supported by:
* Interactive discussions
* Role-play
* Case studies and highlight the techniques available to the participants.

Course Agenda

The course agenda will be as follows:
• Technical Session 08.30-10.00 am
• Coffee Break 10.00-10.15 am
• Technical Session 10.15-12.15 noon
• Coffee Break 12.15-12.45 pm
• Technical Session 12.45-02.30 pm
• Course Ends 02.30 pm