Human Essentials of Project Management
Let’s face it: project management is about people. Having detailed requirements, great status report templates, and high end project planning tools won’t mean anything if you don’t have the people on-board. In this workshop, we look at some of the relevant interpersonal skills that every project manager should possess. If you want to improve your “soft skills,” then the Human Essentials of Project Management session is for you.
Attendees in this workshop will be equipped with the following skills to enhance their project performance:
- Understanding project roles – what they do, what they don’t do, writing position descriptions and org charts that make sense
- Big picture view of the project life cycle – understanding how everything fits together
- Initiating your project – creating a business case that makes sense, creating a useful problem/opportunity statement, selling the project to executives, identifying and documenting assumptions and risks
- Planning your project – the “art” of requirements gathering, the “sure fire 10 step process” to planning your project, project infrastructure, negotiation skills
- Executing your project – communicating through status reports, issues logs, risk tracking; effectively handling conflict
- Closing your project – transitioning ownership, preparing “the masses,” creating and using effective lessons learned
Exercises and class discussions will add “real world” dimensions to the material. This is not about theory, folks! This is take-back-to-your-desk application and use. Attendees will be provided with a CD containing the templates and tools discussed.
It is recommended (but not required) that you take this session before you take the Technical Essentials of Project Management workshop.
If seizing your accomplishment means a greater need for human project management skills, then this workshop is for you!
Workshop Size: Maximum 30 Attendees Per Workshop
