Project Management
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| Dates: | On a date of your choice |
| Venue: | At a location to suit you |
| Course Fees: | Available on application |
| CPD Credits: | 6 |
To discuss your requirements contact us on 01327 858292 or email info@ctp.uk.com
Project Management and Oversight - Course Outline
Managers in Financial Services firms are often expected to manage or oversee projects and change programmes without the benefit of formal project management training.
This focused, one day workshop will introduce you to the key, best-practice project management techniques in a clear and structured way. By the end of the course you will be better equipped to plan, manage and oversee projects and change management programmes, and so save time, reduce pressure and improve efficiency in your day to working life.
How You Will Benefit
Understanding and applying effective project management skills can save time, reduce risk and greatly contribute to your general efficiency and performance.
Attending this course will help you:
- Get it right from the start: identify the key components of a successful project plan
- Effectively evaluate risks, resource and contingency
- Examine and apply the full range of project management techniques
- Review critical stages of the project to pre-empt lateness and/or overspend
- Accurately predict and measure progress and costs
- Anticipate problems and identify corrective actions
- More easily manage multiple projects at the same time
Who Should Attend?
This course will be of immediate and long lasting value to all managers across financial services firms who are asked to effect change in their own areas and contribute on a full or part time basis to making change happen across their organisation. This will include Business, Risk, Operations and Compliance managers. It will also benefit those with responsibility for monitoring and assessing projects’ progress and delivery, such as Senior Executives and Internal Auditors.
Training Approach
This workshop is uses a combination of trainer input, knowledge sharing with interactive syndicate work and case studies. Group size is kept to a maximum of 15 to facilitate learning and sharing of experience amongst the delegates
Workshop Leader: Chris Croft
Chris specialises in project management courses. He has huge experience of the practical challenges of project management gained from his 10 years as a senior manager in the manufacturing industry. His career has spanned many industries as diverse as plastics, automotive and aerospace from where he joined Bournemouth University Business School as a Senior Lecturer. He has been a self -employed trainer since 1997.
Chris has trained over 5000 people in project management in his lecturing career. He has, however, still found time to publish books on Time Management, Management and Sales. He holds a Manufacturing Engineering honours degree from Cambridge University and an MBA.
Programme Outline
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Content
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Introduction
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• Objectives of the course
• What is a project
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The Importance of Planning and How to Do It
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• Feasibility : preliminary estimates of cost and time
• Defining the project driver : features, cost or time
• The importance of having clear success criteria : Why a woolly project is destined to fail
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Key Project Management Techniques
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Twelve steps to a successful project, including:
• Dividing the project into sub-tasks
• Ways to make sure you get all the tasks in your plan
• Finding the critical path
• Overlapping, crashing and float
• The role of software in the planning process, benefits and limitations
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Maintaining Communication and Control
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• Graphical communication of progress – Gantt Charts
• Milestones
• Resource planning – using float to level load
• Coping with several projects at once
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Problems: How to Avoid, Manage and Learn from Them
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• Planning the implementation
• Why plans fail
• Anticipating problems
• Variability and risk evaluation
• Contingency and how to build it into your estimates
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Financial Monitoring
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• Monitoring costs and progress of projects
• Predicting finish date and cost at completion
• Possible corrective actions
• How to review and learn from all projects, good or bad
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Money Back Guarantee
Corporate Training Partnerships offer a unique money back guarantee on all training courses.
We guarantee our training workshops or your money back. If you are attending a CTP event and are not satisfied by lunchtime of the first day, simply turn in your training materials and you will receive a full refund.
Attend one of our courses; then implement and use the strategies that you will learn and if you do not see measurable, tangible results in your performance then we do not deserve to keep your money - we will give you a full refund.
To book or discuss your requirements contact us now on 01327 858292 or email info@ctp.uk.com
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Booking
If you are interested in booking this course, or if you have any questions, please call call us on 01327 858307.
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