Course Overview
Speed is crucial to the success of most organizations -- almost as crucial as the quality of its relationships. Yet three out of every four projects finish late.

This program is a unique combination of effective project management practices and powerful team building techniques that can achieve creative synergy within any project team for:

• on-time delivery,
• stronger team relationships,
• and a superior overall result.

Successful projects are the result of good time and cost control management, and effective relationships with team members and other key players. Both are achieved by using a team approach in planning, monitoring and conducting the work of projects. Technical project management tools are combined with the interpersonal team processes needed to ensure that the tools work. Read More.

Who Should Attend
The workshop is intended for project managers, supervisors, specialists and staff who are involved in, or expect to be involved in, projects of any size or type, either as a leader or as a team member. The concepts presented apply to projects of all sizes and types, from physical construction to softer projects such as changing the work-process in a department, or designing a new training program.

Learning Objectives
This course is a workshop – wherever appropriate, learning takes place in an experimental mode. Groups are formed on the first day as part of the team development process and work together throughout the course. Near the end of the course each team plans a project using the techniques learned. In this way they experience the process of collaborative planning and see its effectiveness first-hand.

Some key principles of this course include:

• Understand the importance of relationships in projects
• Understand the principles of developing and building effective project teams
• Understand the principles and application of Relationship Awareness Theory to anticipate and pro-actively manage project team conflict
• Understand techniques for planning projects, establishing positive project practices and procedures, monitoring progress
• Be able to use a collaborative process for planning and monitoring projects
• Be able to hold an effective project meeting that delivers actionable results
• Have a personal action plan for improving their effectiveness on projects
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Plus, receive valuable takeaways. The workshop manual authored by Project Management expert Gary Robinson,is a complete 150+ page guide to planning and running projects that get results. In addition each participant receives a complete set of Personal Strengths Publishing's Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI). The SDI tools provide practical insight into the application of Relationship Awareness Theory as it relates to interpreting team member's motivation, strengths and expectations of themselves and how they would like best to ne managed.

Read the Instructor Bio: Douglas Muir.

Other courses led by this instructor:

• In Search of Excellent Requirements
• Writing Excellent Requirements: The Hands-on Workshop
• Managing Outsourced/Sub-Contracted Projects
• Building Productive Working Relationships
• Managing Strengths and Conflicts

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August 17-18      Vancouver, BC         $1095 CAD   Register

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