Project Management for Business

Course Titles and Descriptions

Communicating in a Global Workplace

Today, we’re going to talk about communicating in a global workplace. More and more, we are all interconnected by the Internet and 24-hour-a-day worldwide news coverage. We are also linked by transportation systems that make intercontinental travel quick and easy, and by a global economy and markets. Despite differences and conflicts, we have truly become one world. And to do business, we have in many ways become a global workplace, with companies from all over the world meeting and competing in worldwide markets. As a country, the United States continues to be a melting pot, where people come from all over the world to live and work. No doubt you work with people from other countries, cultures, and traditions. In this session, you will learn how to communicate effectively in the global workplace and interact successfully in a diverse working environment with all kinds of people.

Communicating Up: How to Talk to High-Level Management

The main objective of this course is to help you communicate effectively with your boss and senior management.

Communication Between All Ages in the Workplace

The main objective of this session is to help you communicate better with all generations in your workplace. By the time it’s over, you’ll understand what makes your fellow employees “tick” and be able to identify some of their characteristics; understand and respect your cross-generational coworkers; recognize some bad habits that could be creating conflict; enhance your communication skills on the job; and become familiar with some techniques to help you communicate better.

Conflict Resolution for Employees

This course is about conflict resolution. We all probably experienced conflict at some times. Conflict is a sharp disagreement. It generally involves the clash of ideas, interests, or personalities. During this session we’re going to show you some basic conflict resolution skills and techniques you can use to manage the conflicts in your workplace more effectively.

Conflict Resolution for Supervisors

When you know how to resolve workplace conflicts effectively, you can save time and turn potentially destructive situations into positive, productive opportunities for growth and development within your work group. Additionally, when you know how to build consensus among employees, you can enhance motivation and cooperation, as well as create an atmosphere in which agreement generally prevails over conflict.

Delegation for Project Management

The main objective of this session is to teach you how to use delegation as a core tool in managing your project. By the time this session, is over you will be able to recognize the role of delegation in helping a project succeed, learn why delegating is valuable, understand the delegation process, realize the importance of giving and receiving feedback, and understand factors that put delegation at risk of failing.

Effective Decision-Making Strategies for Employees

Making good decisions on the job is important for many reasons. No matter what your job, the decisions you make affect your productivity, the quality of your work, and your ability to meet performance goals. In a larger sense, the decisions you make often affect your co-workers and your department. They may also have an impact on customer satisfaction and the success of the organization. There’s a lot riding on the decisions you make every day. An added challenge is that many of your decisions must be made quickly. The purpose of this training session is to help you make the best decisions possible every workday, even under pressure.

Effective Meetings: How-to for Supervisors

This session is important because too many meetings turn out to be time-consuming distractions from your other important work. Poorly planned and conducted meetings often serve little purpose and waste valuable resources. Just consider the cost of a meeting involving 10 people that runs for half an hour. That adds up to 5 hours worth of salaries and time taken away from other productive work.

Encouraging Employee Input

Organizations grow and prosper when they encourage-and act upon-employee input. Your employees-the people who make the products, serve the customers, and perform all those essential functions-often have valuable insights into ways to save money, improve our operations, and enhance our competitive advantage. Today, we’ll focus on ways to tap into this rich source of ideas for improvement.

How to Manage Time Wisely: A Guide for Employees

This course focuses on time management. We’re going to suggest ways you can make better use of your valuable time and accomplish more with less effort.  We’ll focus on practical techniques and information that you can start using right away to gain more control over your very busy work schedule.

Lean Project Management

This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the main principles of lean project management. By the time the session is over, you should understand the concepts of eliminating waste, creating value, executing faster, and creating a sense of accomplishment among your project team.

Negotiation Skills for Supervisors

Negotiation is something everybody is familiar with. It’s something you use all the time in your work as well as in your personal life. For example, you negotiate with your boss so that you can hire an additional employee. You negotiate with other supervisors to coordinate the operation of your departments and work groups. You negotiate many issues with your employees from performance goals to vacation schedules. You negotiate salaries with job candidates. And after work, you go home and negotiate with your spouse over this and that and with your kids over chores and probably just about everything else. The fact is that whether you’re aware of it or not, you spend a significant part of your day negotiating. That’s why good negotiation skills are so important.

Organizing and Planning for Success: What Employees Need to Know

This session will focus on how organizing and planning can help you work smarter, and we’re going to give you the blueprint to more efficient organization and more effective planning.

Planning and Organizing Skills for Supervisors

Planning and organizing are two of the key functions performed by any manager or supervisor. That makes good planning and organizing skills an extremely important asset. During this training session, you’ll learn about how you can become better organized so that you can become more efficient and stop wasting valuable time. You’ll also learn how to develop better plans so that you can achieve goals and be more successful.

Problem Solving for Employees

This session teaches employees problem-solving techniques. It goes without saying that problem solving is part of any job. Problems can’t be avoided. “Problems” are better looked at as opportunities for improvement. The problem-solving methods covered in this session can help trainees identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, change employee behaviors and attitudes toward problems and, consequently, be more empowered and successful at work.

Problem Solving for Supervisors

Problems are a fact of your daily working life. You can’t avoid them. The best you can do is recognize them and try to solve them before they cause more problems. Learning to identify problems and develop effective solutions is one of the biggest challenges any supervisor faces. At the same time, the skill with which you deal with problems on the job has a direct impact on your effectiveness as a supervisor and on your career success. The problem-solving methods you will learn in this session can help you identify and resolve work problems more quickly and effectively, and consequently, be more successful in your job.

Project Management: Planning

Project Management: Stakeholders

This session will guide you through a variety of topics that will help you understand the concepts of stakeholder analysis and management. By the time the session is over, you should be familiar with the purpose of a stakeholder analysis, how to identify your project’s key stakeholders and important peripheral stakeholders, why you should involve stakeholders and why getting to know them is important, and understanding some different methods for conducting a stakeholder analysis.

Project Management: The Beginning

The main objective of this session is to prepare you for the demanding task of getting a project under way. By the time the session is over, you will understand the many steps involved in successfully executing a project, how to wind up a project properly, and special situations that can complicate the implementation of a project.

Project Management: Troubleshooting

The main objective of this session is to teach you about troubleshooting within project management. In this training module, we will go over what troubleshooting is, what the signs of trouble are and how to avoid them, why troubleshooting is important, and ways to react to different situations to become a more efficient troubleshooter.

Project Planning: Budgeting

The objective of this training session is to learn how to create a budget—and how to stay on it. We will talk about the importance of careful and accurate budgeting in the project planning process, the basic steps involved in budgeting for a project, and the importance of monitoring expenditures during project implementation. By the end of the session, you should be better prepared to deal effectively with problems and bring any project in on budget.

Project Quality Management

The main objective of this session is to teach you about Project Quality Management and how the process works. In this training module we will go over the Project Quality Management process, why it is important, and how to implement the process.

Project Risk Management

The main objective of this session is to teach you about project risk management and how to identify and plan for risks. In this training module, we will go over what project risk management is, why it is important and, most importantly, how to identify risks.

Teambuilding for Employees

Teams can be an extremely effective way to get important work done. Teamwork boosts productivity, improves quality, ensures greater safety, and makes companies more profitable and competitive. That’s why team building is a topic everyone should know something about.

At the completion of this module, the participant will be able to:

• Understand how you can build strong, effective teams in your organization

Time Management for Supervisors

The main objective of this session is to help you work more efficiently and productively.