What Good Project Managers do to Keep Out of Trouble!

Course Length: 2 days

Course Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Professional Development Units (PDU's): 14

Public Course Price: $995. Corporate customers and government agencies - please call 1-866-888-MIND for pricing of on-site courses.

Current Schedule: This course is available to corporate customers and government agencies at this time. Scheduled on demand in a public forum. If you are interested in attending this course in a public session, call Mindavation at 1-866-888-MIND to be put on our wait list.

Course Description: Project management, for many people, is the "accidental profession." Becoming adept at project management however is far from accidental. The skillful project manager has learned from repeated experiences to predict project issues and prevent them before they even occur, or before they adversely impact their organization. They readily see what lies ahead, responding to prevent issues for their projects. In short, they keep themselves and their organizations from getting into trouble.

This course focuses on how to engage in better foresight and be a more "responsive" project manager by predicting where the problem areas may be hiding. Using that foresight, the class discusses how to communicate with peers, team members, and senior leadership in a manner that meets their needs, challenges their thought processes, while using precious time effectively. This class is designed to expand the "insight" of intermediate to experienced project managers to allow them to be more effective.

Key Learning Objectives

• Learn to understand where intuition comes from and how to leverage and expand your intuition
• Discuss approaches for verifying and validating your intuition
• Examine personal thinking and learning modes for information processing
• Review the Leadership Lens and understand how it can be used to position your project for successful organizational change
• Identify the sources and process for collecting information for the four lenses
• Capitalize on a decision making model to quickly make good sound decisions 
• Identify and understand essential professional coaching skills
• Find out how coaching can increase the capabilities of team members, your sponsor and other key stakeholder

PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas covered in this course:
Project Communications Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Integration Management
Project Time Management
Project Risk Management

Course Prerequisites: A minimum of three years project management experience is recommended prior to taking this course.

Audience: This course is designed for experienced project managers.

Click here to view course content