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...providing you with the building blocks of successful project management!
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.
Building the Core Competencies
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.
Analytical Skills
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.
Leadership Skills
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.
Interpersonal Skills
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.
Learning Tree considers the following courses essential for any project manager:
| Project Management Foundation Courses | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 apply use cases to software development initiatives, model user interfaces using mock-ups and rapid prototypes, and develop a requirements data model. More » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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, successfully manage and execute the contracting process, 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 | |
 | 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, align your cross-functional projects with organizational strategy and life cycles, 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 » | | | |
 | This 3-day course provides the critical skills to effectively align the organizational and project interests. You learn to apply practical templates that enable you to define, measure and achieve project portfolio success. You also learn how to optimize project methodologies, communicate to stakeholders and team members, monitor and assess the health of your project portfolio, and successfully allocate resources across competing projects. More » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | In this 3-day course, you acquire the knowledge and skills to effectively manage projects with SharePoint. You build a SharePoint Project Management Information System (PMIS), create and customize a SharePoint site for effective project collaboration, monitor and analyze the project schedule, budget and milestones in a SharePoint site, and generate on-demand project status reports. More » | | | | Professional Project Management Credentials Courses | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
| 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | | |
 | 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 » | | |
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