Management Training and Workshop Facilitation
Subject areas
Strategy Review
- Key tools for reviews - SWOT, PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain
- Supplier Resilience
- Market research and Competitor analysis
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Project and Programme management
- Project success - an outline of this course is is below
- Project Management Introduction
- Project Organisation
- Project management methodology
- Project set-up
- Project planning
- Project closure
- Risks and risk management
- Project reviews
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While courses can and should be tailored to meet the needs of the participants, typically courses draw on material drawn from the following:
An introductory course:
1. Overview of the Fundamentals of Project Management
This course is designed to provide the student with insight to the fundamentals of project management and how to understand the various activities and benefits.
2. Why Project Management is Essential
3. The Demand for Project Management
4. Project Management Best Practice & Definitions
4.1. Reference to standard methodologies, especially PRINCE2 and a separate general text book which uses a similar approach
4.2. Success
4.3. Initiation
4.4. Business Case Development
4.5. Organisation
5. Communication and Control
6. Qualities and Competencies
6.1. Project Sponsor
6.2. Project Manager
Advanced Project Management
1. Introduction
This covers the main components from the above
2. Organisation
2.1. Internal and External Roles and Responsibilities
2.2. Managing Relationships
2.3. Communication
3. Assessing Needs and Planning Development Activities
3.1. Work Breakdown Structure
3.2. Product Breakdown Structure
4. Changes to the projects
4.1.Cost control
4.2.Change control
5. Stages and Stage Management
6. Earned Value Management
7. Assessing and Managing the Risk
8. Managing the Project Team Members
9. Managing Creativity and Conflict
10. Planning and Activating the Closure Point
11. Project Closure
Throughout we use a mix of presentation and workshops, with case studies ideally drawn from the participants
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Achieving Project Success
A one-day workshop for executives, senior management and project managers
The Project Success discusses the key aspects which need to be covered in order to ensure success for your projects and therefore for your organisation.
When running this workshop we always aim to ensure that there are direct actions afterwards so that the people involved and their organisations can achioeve early benefits. Examples include identifying improvements to project planning and project selection.
This course includes:
· A detailed introduction to projects including an explanation of the different structures, and terms
· A detailed explanation of what is meant by success including an appreciation of the criteria for success, and success factors
· An appreciation of how we measure success, and what affects it including how to establish projects so that they do succeed, considering all aspects of projects, stakeholders, controls and communications.
1. Introduction, identifying participants’ expectations, and outlining the course
2. Projects: what causes them to happen?
3. What is Success?
4. Project failure - causes
5. Project Benefits
6. Success Criteria and Success Factors
7. Project Controls
8. Project Success and Project Management Success
9. Organisational structure
10. Key steps for success
11. Conclusion
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Process Mapping
- Process analysis
- Process review
- Process redesign
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General Management
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Change Management
The generic material on which our course is based is below.
- Introductions
- Change and its purpose
- Change Theory
- Dealing with change
- Change in Context
- The role of Communication in achieving change
- Conclusion
An example of a workshop is below:
- Change and its purpose
- Dealing with change - its effects
- Barriers to these changes
- Culture change
- Changes to the organisation
- Changes to processes
- Fit for purpose: Delivery excellence; ‘Customer’ service; Errors and their sources
- Communications
- Who’s who of change
- Building your Change Action plan
- Next Steps - Actions for Participants
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Data Management
Data management is fundamental to all businesses. This workshop is designed to ensure that the approach to data management enables focus on the data you need in order to meet your business's requirements. The material is based on experience:
- Rolling out data management nationally to the public sector,
- A series of workshops created specifically for general practice managers,
- Information management in a pharmaceutical company
- Information sharing in construction.
The outline for the workshop is below. It is designed to ensure that particpants leave with specific 'next steps' to enable them to achieve early benefits.
- Background
- Strategy and Vision
- Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
- Sharing and Security
- Case Histories, Best Practice
- Problems and Solutions
- Next Steps
- Conclusion
- Ten Tips
- References
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