Today’s project managers require a balance of Analytical, Leadership and Interpersonal skills. Together, these skills produce a complete Project Manager who can succeed in—and support—any level of the organization.

The skills that are the essence of project management involve organizing and managing resources to completion within the defined parameters of scope, quality, timeline and budget. In addition, a knowledge of software products, such as SharePoint and Microsoft Project, adds to your core strengths and further enhances your management skills portfolio.

Being able to analyze and identify the requirements of clients and stakeholders becomes critical when determining the right solutions to an organization’s business needs. The successful project manager sees his/her project as an integral part of a company’s efforts and works toward solutions that support those over-arching goals.

Project managers who lack leadership skills often struggle to keep their projects on track. The ability to inspire teams to work together ultimately delivers faster results with greater success. Along with guiding the process, the complete project manager has the ability to structure a project, measure the team’s capabilities and exploit individual talents to elicit maximum performance.

The importance of interpersonal skills is often underestimated. An effective project manager understands that the ability to communicate, negotiate, facilitate, manage time wisely, respond to conflict and assert themselves positively produces long-term benefits that will serve them throughout their career.

Project Management Foundation Courses
Project Management: Skills for Success
	Through a media-enhanced, simulated case study, you gain the skills to successfully plan, manage and deliver projects using a 6-step process. You learn how to implement risk management techniques and mitigation strategies, estimate and schedule task work and duration with confidence, and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you have access to templates and checklists for use back at the office.   More »
Project Management for Software Development
	This 4-day course provides the tools you need to effectively organize and select process choices, create realistic plans, and build and manage an accomplished team through every phase of the development cycle. You gain practical experience identifying external factors that dictate success, matching your project's needs to the most effective development model, and developing the skills for tracking and controlling the project deliverables.   More »
Project Management Core Competencies Courses
Project Scheduling
	Working in a simulated project environment, you construct realistic schedules to achieve timely project delivery. You learn how to construct project network diagrams to identify the sequence of work, calculate Critical Path to determine project duration, and effectively assign resources to build a feasible baseline schedule.   More »
Project Budgeting and Estimating
	This 3-day course provides the skills to estimate realistic budgets for completing planned project scope and to deliver projects in or under budget. You learn how to estimate tasks using activity-based costing, quantify risk to justify contingency funding and produce a defensible rate of return, and leverage Earned Value Analysis to determine project status, forecasts and any necessary corrections.   More »
Project Risk Management
	In this 4-day course, you develop strategies to identify and measure the risks in project development and implementation. Through immersion in a video-enhanced case study, you gain the skills to quantify risks and create effective risk response strategies. You learn how to apply customizable, industry-robust templates to create a Risk Management Plan and Risk Register. You also take away tools and templates for use back at your office.   More »
Developing User Requirements
	In this 4-day course, you participate in an immersive, simulated case study, providing you with the practical skills necessary to write well-formed and validated user requirements. You learn how to organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document, prepare a plan for completing a user requirements project, and analyze requirements with a process mapping methodology.   More »
User Requirements for Software Development
	This 4-day course provides the necessary skills to capture software requirements using clearly defined processes. You are immersed in a user requirements environment, providing you with the practical experience to build a use case-based requirements model, model user interfaces using mock-ups and develop a data model.   More »
Project Team Leadership
	In this 4-day course, you gain practical experience developing your leadership skills to build and sustain high-performing project teams. You learn how to develop effective team performance using the Leadership Services Model, build a strong team identity through vision, purpose and commitment, and foster positive and productive team communication. At the end of the course, you take away a project leadership best practices handbook and a personal development plan for use back at the office.   More »
Contracting for Project Managers
	As contracts continue to be the foundation of business relationships, organizations need to implement effective contract management practices to maximize results and minimize risk. In this 3-day course, you gain the skills and knowledge to implement the contract life cycle, manage and execute the contracting process successfully , identify strategies and tactics to select the most qualified vendors, and orchestrate the negotiation process for "win-win" outcomes.   More »
Project Management Advanced Skills Courses
Strategic Project Management
	Through an intensive project simulation, you experience real-world situations in which your decisions impact the outcome of your project. You learn how to determine key business benefits and project financial feasibility, communicate effectively with key stakeholders to ensure project success, and monitor and report project progress using Earned Value Management (EVM). You also have access to productivity tools and templates for use back at work.   More »
Agile Project Management with Scrum
	In this 3-day course, you gain a solid foundation in Agile project management techniques, based on the proven Scrum method. Through an immersive and evolving case study and other experiential activities, you acquire the practical knowledge and skills to plan, run, monitor and control a successful Agile development project.   More »
Project Recovery: Diagnosis, Strategy and Prevention
	Through an extensive case study you learn how to diagnose troubled projects, structure and perform an assessment plan, and implement a strategy for recovery. You also learn how to apply analytics to evaluate root causes and continuously monitor project performance. At the end of this 3-day course, you take away checklists, templates and best practices to apply to your future projects.   More »
Building a Project Management Office
	In this 3-day course, you gain the skills to develop a Project Management Office (PMO) to improve project consistency, efficiency and effectiveness in a multi-project environment. You learn how to structure a PMO that provides a means of centralization and standardization and greater project oversight. You also gain the skills to align project selection criteria with strategic organizational objectives and provide ongoing project management support through mentoring and coaching.   More »
Managing Global Projects
	In this 3-day course, you learn how to effectively manage a global project. You also learn to facilitate effective cross-cultural communication, create an efficient structure to achieve global project success and incorporate project closure best practices across a geographically dispersed project.   More »
Project Management Systems & Tools Courses
Microsoft Project 2007 Comprehensive Introduction
	In this 3-day course, you learn how to solve typical project and business problems using the planning, control and reporting features of Microsoft Project. You build a project plan, enter tasks and develop calendars. You also track progress, update plans and monitor variances between target and actual project deliverables.   More »
Microsoft Project 2007: Managing Multiple Projects
	In this 2-day course, project managers gain the skills to leverage Microsoft Project Professional tools and techniques in a multiproject environment. You gain the skills to create cross-project links; optimize resource assignments; and connect project managers, teams and data across the organization. You also learn how to track schedules, completeness and budgets on complex projects.   More »
Microsoft Project Server 2007
	In this 3-day course, you gain the skills to leverage Project Server 2007 to achieve organization, centralization and consistency for simple to complex projects across the entire project life cycle. Specifically, you learn to create and manage enterprise project plans using Microsoft Project Professional, collaborate with geographically distributed project team members using Project Web Access, and administer, secure and protect Project Server.   More »
Professional Project Management Credentials Courses
Preparing for the CAPM Exam
	In this 3-day course, you learn the terms and definitions of the PMBOK® Guide and prepare for the CAPM® exam. You also learn to decipher the processes and knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide-Fourth Edition, identify significant steps of the project life cycle, evaluate your exam preparedness and create a personalized plan for self-study.   More »
Preparing for the PMP Exam
	In this 5-day course, you gain knowledge and skills to help you prepare for the PMP exam. Through practice exams, workshops and overnight study, you learn essential PMBOK® Guide terminology, tools and techniques. You create a personal preparation strategy and a study plan for ultimate exam success.   More »
Preparing for the PgMP Exam
	In this 4-day course, you prepare for the PMI PgMP certification exam. Through a series of workshops and simulated exams, you learn how to align your program management experience with PgMP terminology and definitions, navigate the processes and knowledge areas of The Standard for Program Management and analyze methods essential for PgMP exam success.   More »
Project Scheduling
	Working in a simulated project environment, you construct realistic schedules to achieve timely project delivery. You learn how to construct project network diagrams to identify the sequence of work, calculate Critical Path to determine project duration, and effectively assign resources to build a feasible baseline schedule.   More »
Project Risk Management
	In this 4-day course, you develop strategies to identify and measure the risks in project development and implementation. Through immersion in a video-enhanced case study, you gain the skills to quantify risks and create effective risk response strategies. You learn how to apply customizable, industry-robust templates to create a Risk Management Plan and Risk Register. You also take away tools and templates for use back at your office.   More »
PRINCE2® Foundation Certification
	In this 3-day intensive exam preparatory course you gain comprehensive foundation knowledge of PRINCE2® 2009. You will learn to work with the seven guiding principles of PRINCE2 that provide a framework of good practice, integrate the PRINCE2 elements to recognise the method structure, and be introduced to the key themes and processes that form the core of PRINCE2. Throughout the course you gain the knowledge to take the Foundation Exam on the final day of class.   More »
PRINCE2® Practitioner Certification
	This 5-day course provides a comprehensive overview of the PRINCE2® methodology, recognized as a leading best practice approach for planning, controlling and completing projects of all sizes and types. You gain the knowledge required for both the PRINCE2® Foundation Exam, given on Day 4 of the course, and the PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam, given on Day 5.   More »