Essential Project Skills for Teams

    

Summary:
This course presents project and people skills that every team member can use during any project. Project management topics help participants understand how they can better assist the project manager in planning and controlling the project. Participants also gain insights into important people skills such as conflict management, delegation, effective communication and even management of stakeholder expectations. Participants are led through a series of exercises, each of which contributes to greater understanding of how to work effectively with other people.

Duration:
2 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for project team leads and team members, business staff and managers who participate in projects, Project Coordinators, Project Expeditors and Junior Project Managers.

Topics:

• The basics of project definition, planning and control
• Defining and managing project risk
• Planning for Organizational Adoption
• Managing stakeholder expectations
• Creating a communication management plan for any project
• Making effective decisions
• Managing conflict
• Effective delegation
• Good Meetings Practice
• Turning Lessons Recorded into Lessons Learned

Prerequisites:
This course assumes some experience as member of a project team.

Last Update: February 7, 2012