Programme Overview
A practical one-day course covering core technical skills and success factors for project management. The course does not assume previous project experience.
This course takes a pragmatic approach, providing participants with a basic framework and principles so that participants can apply a structured approach to their projects. The training is independent of project management software.
Course Benefits
Participants can expect to:
- gain practical skills, tools and techniques that can be applied to any project
- learn how to approach and structure a project
- understand the principles of successful project management – best practices!
- learn how to avoid some basic project pitfalls
- learn, through participation, about project roles and team work.
Skills Taught
- How do I go about planning a project?
- What are the roles and responsibilities in a project?
- How can I clearly define the project’s purpose, scope, and resource requirements?
- How do I keep a project under control?
- How do I know if I am going about the project in the right way?
- What are some practical techniques for planning and scheduling a project?
- How do you get a project team to work well together?
Course Presenter
Designed for
People who plan or manage projects and for project participants who need to make an effective contribution to projects.
What to Expect
Take away a project plan outline for your business to implement.
Apply the principles of project management to your current projects within resource constraints.
Testimonial
Nelson City Council August 2024
- One of the best one-day crash courses on a technical, complex, and rich practice I have done.
Nelson City Council June 2023
- Very well organised and delivered day. I got a lot out of it.
- I have a much clearer idea of how to organise a project now. The concepts of time, scope and vision are significantly clearer.
- I found this course really engaging and look forward to putting what I have leant into practice.
Kumanu Environmental - October 2022
- While I have completed projects in the past, they have been ad hoc and I now feel like I have the framework to run projects in.
- In-depth knowledge ad examples helped clarify certain aspects of project management.
- Very relevant. Pip is extremely knowledgable. The course was interesting and added a lot of value to our team.
Feedback from our public course participants on 24 Nov 2020:
• This was really useful in going through the process step by step. I feel like anyone would benefit from this regardless of how much experience they have with project planning.
• I found the course practical, well delivered and I will be able to apply the learning to my work immediately.
• An interesting and practical course. I learned a lot and feel I have a good toolbox to start implementing my new skills.
• The course was engaging, and the tutor was able to tailor it to relevant work environments.
