Sneak Peek
Learn to Manage Projects
- Project Management Skills can be interchangeable between professions and jobs.
- Construction and building projects inevitably require a capable project manager
- The knowledge and skills of the project manager are critical to meeting cost, time and quality goals for any project.
- Soft skills learned across this course can be applied to many situations; and that can be valuable well beyond just project management.
This course will help you learn successful time management strategies, procedural frameworks, assessment and incentive schemata, and other tools for control to get you back on track – and keep you there.
Having sound skills and knowledge in project management is important for many occupations and can be a skill that can be taken from one job to another and even help in your own life. Understanding the different stages of a project, the resources and relationships that you will need to rely on that will help you complete a project.
A project is a temporary piece of work that is undertaken to create an individual or unique service, product or result. Projects are temporary in that they have a beginning and end, so they have set resources and scope.
COURSE CONTENT
LESSON 1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- The role of a project manager
- Definitions
- Characteristics of a project
- Stages of a project
- Where is project management applied?
- Project Identification
- Types of project management
- Traditional Project Management
- Lateral project management
- Types of project management offices- supportive, controlling, directive
- Project types - straightforward, complex, evolutionary
- State of the art
- Static management
- What is a Stakeholder
LESSON 2 RISK AND UNCERTAINTY
- What is risk?
- Some seek risk
- The importance of a business case
- The feasibility study
- Who should do a feasibility study
- Writing a feasibility study report
- Risk identification
- Types of risk
- Risk assessment and analysis
- Responding to threats
- Business case
- Feasibility studies
LESSON 3 MAINTAINING CONTROL THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT
- Tools for control
- Benchmarking
- Practical ways to stay in tune
- Procedures
- Gantt Charts
- Audits
- Job descriptions
- Newsletters, Social media, Progress reports
- Assessments and Incentives
- Staff meetings, mentoring, pairing, etc
- When and where control needs to be exercised
- Nine steps to successful project planning
LESSON 4 INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
- What is communication?
- Communication systems and techniques
- Setting up communications systems in projects
- Active listening
- Finding the right staff
- Active Listening
- Staffing on projects
LESSON 5 THE END GAME
- How to approach a project review
- Phase/milestone reviews
- End of project review
- What should a final report cover
- Disposal of left over assets
- Virtual Project Management
LESSON 6 SOME GOLDEN RULES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 15 important rules
- Is project management just common sense
- Should I be a project manager
FINAL ASSESSMENT
How does this course work?
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
- You can enrol at any time.
- Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
- Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end
of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and
each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need
internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment
which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60%
pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of
completion with your name on it.
WHO CAN THIS COURSE BENEFIT?
Anyone who manages a project of any kind can learn from this course, by expanding, deepening, or even just refreshing their knowledge.
Projects can be building or renovating a building, creating a landscape, developing or redeveloping any small or large parcel of land , installing services into a place (eg. pipelines, electric services or sewerage). It might be developing a new business enterprise, new product or service.
Trade skills are frequently enlisted by projects. Skilled trades people often graduate, with experience to project management.
If you have knowledge or skills in any area of trades, it may be a logical step forward to learn to be a project manager.
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