Project Management

CERTIFIED PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER: On-line Training or Face to Face

Course Synopsis

The Diploma in Project Management can prepare the student for taking up a new change management role. It is also ideal for those who would like to develop and hone their skills within an existing project management role.
It provides detailed learning on a range of relevant project management topics, combining theoretical background with the practical tools, project management techniques and project communication formats needed for everyday project managers.
The course examines project management practice against the context of the UK, EU, US and global economy, and will be of particular interest to those needing to practice change management skills on a day-to-day basis.
Throughout, the student is encouraged to use the ideas both in the context of their own experience and through a case study.

Course Content

1. What is Change Management?

This module will introduce the student to modern concepts of change management (ChM) skills, and how these can change and develop within a business management context. It examines the way ChM evolves, and the change manager’s role in this process. The module concludes a range of guidelines in practical change issues, looking at effective ChM.

2. The individual as a Project Manager

This module focuses on some essential core skills for a project manager, with tips and techniques for successful project management goal-setting, project problem-solving, effective change resolution meetings, change interviewing and giving or receiving change related feedback. Relevant tools are explored, including change landscape analysis.

3. Project Structure and Environment

This module includes an assessment of different features and types of project organisation structure and the various environments within which project organisations operate. This module assesses recent trends and the move towards the use of deliverable integration, and also looks at how to analyse their effects to anticipate a project organisation future evolution.

4. Managing Project Processes

This module considers the internal features of a project organisation, including planning and strategy, project costs and budgets and the benefits of understanding the project processes of a business. Practical advice is provided on facilitation of workshops, in the context of project process improvement.

5. Managing Change Projects

The module asks 'What is a change project', providing a step-by-step breakdown of the key phases for managing change projects successfully. It provides advice on financing change projects, and on quality change assessment. The module provides guidance on change project team roles and effective brainstorming for problem-solving.

6. Managing Change Diversity

This module embraces the increasingly diverse UK, EU, US and global change mandates and the business case for managing by diversity-unification principles. Key change issues and legislation issues will be examined, including common challenges and potential conflicts, diverse change themes of international regulatory styles etc.

7. Compliance and Project Management

Compliance and project management may be regarded as a ‘chicken and egg principle’ – which comes first? Accordingly this module includes a review of compliance-caused/affecting organisational project management, managing the change-compliance process, dealing with individual resistance and cultural issues, the use of coaching, mentoring and facilitation development.

8. Quality and Project Management

If you cannot size it, you cannot measure it, and if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it – this is a quality and project management axiom. The use of change goals, related change performance indicators, service level agreements and benchmarking will be considered, along with a review of quality-project management improvement.

9. Audit and Project Management

If you cannot audit it, you cannot measure it, and if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it – this is an audit and project management axiom. The use of audit objectives, related project management-audit performance indicators, service level agreements and benchmarking will be considered, along with a review of audit-project management improvement.

10. Ethics and Project Management

This module examines recent trends in business ethics, corporate governance, environmental issues and social responsibility. Practical advice is provided with tips and guidance on making ethics and project management presentations. Finally, the student is taken through a course review to reflect on their learning and also to help them to set career goals for their next steps.

Mandatory Text Book:
Students are expected to purchase and use the book COMPLIANCE AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT WHAT YOU DON’T LEARN AT HARVARD by Abe Abrahami directly from: www.amzon.co.uk or from: www.amazon.com

Normal training course fee for the on-line is 495.00 Euros - you receive all materials by e-mail and answer test questions to be marked by your personal tutor - but if you apply before March 2009 - you will save 145 Eros and pay only 350 Euros. Contact Peach for an application form by return.