Project Management Essentials

Challenge

Today’s knowledge workers have quietly slipped into the role of the unofficial project manager. Stakeholders, scope creep, no formal training, and a lack of process all combine to raise the probability of project failure costing organizations time, money, and employee morale.

Solution

PEOPLE + PROCESS = SUCCESS

Project management isn’t just about managing logistics and hoping the project team is ready to play to win. The skills of “informal authority” are more important than ever before, so team members are inspired to contribute to projectsuccess! Project Management Essentials for the Unofficial Project Manager will provide themind-set, skill set, andtoolsetthat will consistently deliver successful projects to completion. This two-day work session will help participants consistently complete projects successfully. They will learn to implement a disciplined process to execute projects and to master informal authority.

About the Course

In Project Management Essentials, participants will be able to:

Understand that consistent project success depends on processes and people.
Implement Four Foundational Behaviors that inspire their team members to execute with excellence.
Identify a project’s stakeholders.
Establish clear and measurable project outcomes.
Create a well-defined project scope statement.
Identify, assess, and manage project risks.
Create a realistic and well-defined project schedule.
Hold team members accountable to project plans
Conduct consistent team accountability sessions.
Create a clear communication plan around their project that includes regular project status reports and project changes.
Reward and recognize the contributions of project team members.
Formally close projects by documenting lessons learned.

What you Receive

Participant Guide
Pocket Card Set (Quick Reference Cards)
USB Drive (with templates of the tools discussed in the course)
Colored Pens
Sticky Notes

Schedule and Pricing

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The price for this course is $475.

How to Register

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After taking the course, here is what your Cornell colleagues are saying about this course:

In addition to getting all the conceptual depth I'd helped for, the thumb drive of actual forms is exactly what I need! I was hoping to gain the knowledge to start these from scratch, now I can adjust what exists and save time and effort.
Easy to assimilate, practical, lots of takeaways from processes to language, to methodology, to specific forms and steps/tasks.
To learn how to dismantle reassess in a logical manner any action plan for a project you're learning, is an invaluable skill to acquire. This course has been very helpful and gives me a track to run on.
Excellent techniques that I can start using right away. Lots of practical ideas and open discussion about challenges in real world projects and how to approach them.
As a PM newbie, this class was exactly what I was looking for- a way to get running on this w/tools,processes and knowledge on PM
Gives a very clear model for organizing and executing projects.
The second day, everything seemed to come together. I understood better what I want to do with this project and how to do it. More involved than I expected.
Lots of valuable information and chance to practice what you learn.
This class is beneficial in many areas of work even if you’re not a project manager. Makes you look at the big picture and try to analyze who should be involved and why.
This course was a good foundationofme as I have never been a PM it was the right amount of info in helping to decide if this is an area I would like to pursue.
Goodmaterial the kit was very helpful with the cards, flash drive, toolkit, etc.
I learned a lot of valuable info that I will implement and it will make a huge difference in my job. I will be more efficient.
I am new to this. Great course because it gave the essentials of what needed to be covered and the appropriate time to cover the topics.
Great job explaining all the details behind the PM process. My work team sees mostly the outward facing PM activities. Understanding how those are built from the ground up is great background info for a team that works mostly on CIT projects.
Content relevancy, excellent delivery, easy/straightforward techniques for implementation.
I have had no training in PM, and while I do some of these things it isn't consistent or predictable. Terrific info, very helpful - it is within my ability and influence to do these things. The tools to help me have the conversations are great because I always struggle with this.
Great intro to basic PM and included many useful tools. Speaking the same language could help our projects move more smoothly. Will improve my output and projects.
Very interesting, excellent and very knowledgeable teacher.
Absolutely, perfect. Need to know when the next one is for others in my group.
Very useful and pertains directly to my role at the University, not only in PM but in daily work interactions.
Great systems for breaking down even the simplest work/projects and much of it can be used and applied to projects or even a group of tasks. I plan to use it in my projects, but I can also see its value in organizing my other tasks and time frames.
Every project requires process and this provides real and very practical examples of the “how to's.” Not difficult material to comprehend. Very energetic and interesting presentation. Theinstructorsaddition of personal experiences also helps make concrete the info being presented.

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