{"id":1973,"date":"2024-02-08T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?page_id=1973"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T12:40:53","slug":"excellent-project-management-skills-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/excellent-project-management-skills-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Project Management Skills Training&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/images\/dolphins_group_online_booking.png\" alt=\"Dolphins Group - Book Now\" width=\"117\" height=\"31\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The People Side of Project Management.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These influential skills are instilled in participants through real-world scenarios; the concepts and methods learned are immediately usable in the workplace, leading to a greater retention of newly acquired skills, measurable project improvements, and the achievement of desired project results.<\/p>\n<p>Consisting of 5 days comprehensive workshop, it emphasizes the successful planning and initiation phases of the project management discipline. In addition to providing technique-based competencies, the Practitioner Program teaches students the &#8220;softer&#8221; skills as well, such as negotiation techniques, getting management buy-in and effectively working with others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target Audience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those who want to understand project management skills and concepts and who must influence projects customers and other team members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-requisites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no pre-requisites for this course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At Course Completion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After completing this course, participants will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).<\/li>\n<li>Use a network diagram to display a Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart.<\/li>\n<li>Use the Critical Path Method (CPM) in the network diagram to ensure the correct project duration.<\/li>\n<li>Estimate and schedule project tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Apply resources to a project plan.<\/li>\n<li>Explore different personality types and learn how they affect project management.<\/li>\n<li>Apply time-tested tools and techniques to actual projects.<\/li>\n<li>Create and communicate a shared sense of purpose between the project team and stakeholders about your project.<\/li>\n<li>Involve and engage key customers and use the views of others to create commitment and advance your project.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare to make difficult requests and influence people with whom you do not have official power; for example, obtaining additional resources for your project.<\/li>\n<li>Use a negotiation model that guarantees common understanding of the issue and creates accountability for and ownership of the final solution. Listen to and resolve stakeholders concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Use group facilitation skills to create a common reference point that includes the description of the business problem, where the project is going, how to actualize it, and stakeholder involvement at any given point in the project.<\/li>\n<li>Identify key stakeholders for the project to understand their assumptions and expectations and to get them involved at the right time.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiate agreements that get your project started correctly and keep it moving along.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Overview of Project Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The characteristics of a project.<\/li>\n<li>Project management processes.<\/li>\n<li>Project success and failure.<\/li>\n<li>Critical success factors and components.<\/li>\n<li>The effective project manager skills and characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>Roles and responsibilities.<\/li>\n<li>The time, cost, and scope target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The People Side of Project Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding people.<\/li>\n<li>Learn the use style models.<\/li>\n<li>Flexing your style.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding differences.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Planning the Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The components of the plan.<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to the case study.<\/li>\n<li>The project charter.<\/li>\n<li>The work plan.<\/li>\n<li>The control plans.<\/li>\n<li>The functions of a good project plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Work Breakdown Structure (Work Plans)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defining the work to be done.<\/li>\n<li>Creating the WBS demonstration of technique.<\/li>\n<li>The WBS task and the work package.<\/li>\n<li>Methods of subdivision.<\/li>\n<li>Use of the WBS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Estimating<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Estimating accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>Estimating concepts and methods.<\/li>\n<li>Task-based estimation.<\/li>\n<li>Effort, productivity factors, influence factors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Scheduling<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schedule concepts and methods.<\/li>\n<li>Network diagrams.<\/li>\n<li>Precedence logic.<\/li>\n<li>Estimate duration.<\/li>\n<li>Create a network diagram demonstration of technique PERT\/CPM.<\/li>\n<li>Allocation of resources.<\/li>\n<li>Gantt charts\/histograms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Risk Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluation of risk.<\/li>\n<li>Identification, assessment, quantification, and contingency planning.<\/li>\n<li>Risk consequences and contingencies.<\/li>\n<li>A technique for planning for risk.<\/li>\n<li>Cost\/benefit\/risk considerations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Measurement, evaluation, and quality control.<\/li>\n<li>Prerequisites to effective control.<\/li>\n<li>Key indicators.<\/li>\n<li>Change management and control.<\/li>\n<li>Progress reporting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Project Completion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Management of project completion.<\/li>\n<li>Post implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Build Commitment and Accountability Through Effective Negotiation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Common deficiencies and problems with negotiating agreements.<\/li>\n<li>Key elements in building commitment.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiation principles.<\/li>\n<li>8-Step negotiation model\/process\/practice simulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Influence through Selling Ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initiating negotiations, promotion ideas, making difficult requests.<\/li>\n<li>Participant application to real project situations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Group Facilitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conceptualizing and planning a successful facilitation.<\/li>\n<li>Modified 8-Step negotiation model for groups.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitation tips to jump start and advance discussion\/ground rules for facilitators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Process Start-Up Matrix<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Components: scope facilitation, stakeholder map, and force field analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Building a sense of project purpose\/application to team building.<\/li>\n<li>Responding to the project management process by using participants actual projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scope Facilitation Technique<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group facilitation process gets people excited about change.<\/li>\n<li>Builds commitment between team and stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stakeholder Mapping and Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify those who can help advance the project.<\/li>\n<li>Identify their assumptions and expectations about the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Force Field Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group facilitation process quickly uncovers the constraints, assumptions, and risks.<\/li>\n<li>Create strategy to respond to barriers associated with your project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Art of Managing Resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand your role in resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Respond to resistance by defining causes and create appropriate actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/images\/dolphins_group_online_booking.png\" alt=\"Dolphins Group - Book Now\" width=\"117\" height=\"31\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Dolphins Training &amp; Consultants ltd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>View Park Towers ,10th Fl ,Utalii Lane &amp; L584-off UN Avenue, Gigiri<strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\nP O Box 27859 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel +254-20-2211362\/4\/5 or 2211382<\/p>\n<p>Cell:+254-700 086 219 \/ +254-712 636 404<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:training@dolphinsgroup.co.ke\">training@dolphinsgroup.co.ke<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\">www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your No.1 Corporate Training Partner 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