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Project Management Course: For Managers and First Time PMs

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Project Management Course: For Managers and First Time PMs

Learn Project management so you can deliver your next project be on time, on budget, and to requirements.

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Duration -2.5 hours

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Course Description

Do you need to manage a project?

And do you want to deliver it on time, on budget, and to your requirements?

If you are new to project management or just want a refresher, this course will give you all the basics and more.

Project Management has become a vital element of business life. Success for both you and your organization will depend on good project management skills.

How do you set up to succeed? This course shows you the practical tools, techniques, and advice you need.

What will I get?

You will get over two and a half hours of high-quality video - not just a PowerPoint with a voice-over.

It is based on Mike's best-selling three-hour live seminar and contains over two and a half hours of video and a wealth of additional templates for you to download and adapt to your work. These will help you manage your projects practically, for greater control and more success.

If you want to deliver your next project on time, on budget, and to specification, you can't afford not to take this course.

What people say about Mike's live seminar...

“This did what it said on the box – a great deal of practical ideas for planning and managing tasks, along with an understanding of key principles for successful delivery"

Andrea Duncan, PDP Co-ordinator, University of Northampton

“One of the best seminars I've attended in the last 17 years. Enjoyable practical and useful. I would highly recommend this course"

Diane Massey, DSM Legal Solicitors

“If you've never had formal training in project management, you'll learn a huge amount about processes and the secrets to succeeding in your projects"

Paul Foxall, Senior Project Officer, Sandwell MBC

“Excellent seminar. I have been on previous project management courses. This one seemed very different and much better due to brilliant examples Mike gave."

Emma Oliver, Marketecture

“Excellent content, clearly delivered. Really enjoyed Mike's course and found it exceptionally useful."

Nick Osborn, Fenland RP Ltd

“Very useful. Many excellent strategies to help guide project managers."

Rob Simpson, Basis (Registration) Ltd

“A great overall introduction to project management. I learned a lot and have a lot I can start to implement tomorrow!"

Catherine Mendham, Content Consultants

“Very practical, very useful. It gives confidence in knowing what is important and what is not. Mike is a very engaging speaker."

Louisa Davison, Secret Agent Marketing

“An excellent introduction and reminder of some of the fundamentals of project management."

Chris Price, Pulse PM Ltd

Dr Mike Clayton

Mike is one of the UK's leading project delivery experts. He has many years experience of in managing projects and integrating change in many companies of varying sizes. Mike has had key roles in managing multi-million-pound projects for Vodafone, General Motors, BAA, and Transport for London. Organizations of all sizes have benefited from his skills in integrating complex change. You will get real results as his highly practical approach simplifies complex ideas.

Mike also has over 20 years' experience in training project managers, throughout the UK, Europe, and the US. He is the author of thirteen top-selling business, management, and personal effectiveness books, including four on project management topics:

  • How to Manage a Great Project on Budget. On target. On time.   (Pearson, 2014)

  • The Influence Agenda    A systematic approach to aligning stakeholders in times of change   (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

  • Brilliant Project Leader   What the best project leaders know, do, and say to get results, every time   (Pearson, 2012)

  • Risk Happens!    Managing risk and avoiding failure in business projects   (Marshall Cavendish, 2011)

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Enroll for this course now, so you can start to gain control of your projects straight away.

Who this course is for:

  • new and want-to-be project managers
  • project managers who have had no formal training and who want to start to formalize what you have learned on the job
  • beginners and also for intermediates with a few projects under your belt
  • managers and professionals who are starting to need to deliver projects as a part of their day-to-day responsibilities
  • This course will give you a great leg up if you need to get involved in your first project... in any capacity

Goals

  • Understand how projects work and be able to control your project process
  • Deploy some of the main ways to avoid budget and schedule over-runs
  • Define your project precisely, for your benefit and everyone else's
  • Establish a clear scope, so you can combat the dreaded 'scope creep'
  • Deal effectively with supporters, critics, and bystanders
  • Create time scales for getting the job done using milestone planning
  • Be able to use the world's favorite project planning tool: the Gantt chart
  • Achieve fair and effective allocation of project responsibilities
  • Get the most from your team: motivation, collaboration, and communication
  • Predict problems and plan your responses
  • Be able to assess which risks to deal with first
  • Assess which risks to deal with first
  • Apply all six strategies for action on risks available to use
  • Stay in control when people change their minds
  • Deliver your project on budget, on target, and on time
  • Complete the three key tasks to finally close down your project

Prerequisites

  • You won't need any software or materials other than your preferred note-taking device (pen & paper, Evernote or OneNote, or anything in between). You can even use TutorialsPoint's built-in note-taking tools, (which are private to you).
  • If you have any experience with projects at all, that is absolutely fine. If you do have experience, bring it with you as you watch the videos. If you don't, bring your common sense.
Project Management Course: For Managers and First Time PMs

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Project Management Fundamentals: Know the Principles and Get it Right

7 Lectures
  • play icon Course Promo 02:31 02:31
  • play icon What is a Project? 04:08 04:08
  • play icon The Four Stage Project Lifecycle 08:49 08:49
  • play icon Project Stages and Boundaries 08:46 08:46
  • play icon One Reason why Projects go Wrong 05:46 05:46
  • play icon Terminology used in the Project Stages 05:29 05:29
  • play icon More on Project Gateways / Stage Gates 02:15 02:15

Project Definition Stage: The Vital Foundation to Your Success

4 Lectures
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Project Planning Stage: Failing to Plan = Planning to Fail

12 Lectures
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Project Delivery Stage: Don't you Love it When a Plan Comes Together!

2 Lectures
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Project Closure Stage: Deep Sigh - You're Nearly Done

3 Lectures
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Instructor Details

Mike Clayton

Mike Clayton

  Dr Mike Clayton is a business trainer, author and speaker. Since 2002, he has been helping professionals, managers and leaders to excel in their roles with management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training. 

        Mike has written over a dozen books for major publishers like Wiley, Macmillan and Pearson, including: Powerhouse, How to Manage a Great Project, How to Speak so People Listen, Brilliant Time Management, and The Influence Agenda. 

        Mike's professional background is 12 years as a project management professional with the London office of international management consultancy Deloitte. Prior to that, Mike had an academic career in Physics, working at the world renowned Schuster Laboratory of The University of Manchester.

Mike currently has 14 courses on Tutorialspoint, with a long list of successful seminars and training courses to convert into video format.

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