Description
Project management does not happen in a perfect world. It happens between meetings, deadlines, personalities, and the occasional curveball that shows up uninvited. This bundle was built for that reality.
The Real World Project Management Cost Saving Bundle gives you a strong foundation and real practice without paying for things you do not need. You start with two core courses, Project Management Fundamentals and Managing Real World Projects. Together, they cover the basics, the day to day decisions, and the moments where theory meets real people and real pressure.
Project Management Fundamentals (.3 IACET CEU Credits)
This introductory course reviews the principles of project management including those of the Project Management Institute and PRINCE2. It explores the project management terminology, processes, and key concepts that are essential to effective project management. Also, the course covers the Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing stages of a project’s life cycle. It also identifies the roles that project leaders and stakeholders play in developing and managing efficient projects for their organizations.
Managing Real World Projects (10 ATD CI Credits, 10 HRCI Credits, 10 SHRM Credits, 10 PMI PDUs, 1 IACET CEU Credit)
This course presents a streamlined approach to project management based on the best practices of experienced, effective project managers. It cuts through the clutter and focuses on the key principles of project management in the real world, offering tools and techniques for achieving project success. This course provides a clear road map for leading a project through the five key project stages: Initiating, Planning, Controlling, Executing and Closing. You’ll be exposed to the basic tools employed in each of these stages, including templates for a comprehensive project plan, work breakdown schedules, task list, issue list, risk register and close-out documents. Each stage is illustrated by examples and video commentary by project management professionals, where you can see how best practices are applied to solve project challenges.
Then you get to make it yours.
Choose one additional course from the list below to focus on what matters most to your role right now.(Place your selection in the notes section of your order.) Maybe you want stronger communication. Maybe conflict is the part no one warned you about. Maybe you are ready to sharpen your decision making or leadership skills. You decide, not a one size fits all checklist.
Effectively Managing Project Stakeholders
This online course is created to help project managers understand and resolve issues that can emerge from interactions among project stakeholders. The course contains ten concise case studies that explore common stakeholder issues. The case studies are designed to simulate the conversations and interactions that occur among project stakeholders, to show learners how to dissect causal elements from these types of conversations – just as they will have to do on their own projects—and to help them prepare appropriate responses. As students work through the case studies, they’ll learn effective strategies to resolve stakeholder problems and gain the proficiency necessary to manage interactions and keep their projects on track.
Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers
Emotional intelligence (EI) is our ability to identify and control our emotions to achieve positive outcomes in our relationships. Project managers with high EI are better equipped to deal with team members, vendors, stakeholders, and sponsors and to handle and resolve conflicts. This course reviews the underlying concepts of emotional intelligence and explores how project managers can improve, and make use, of their emotional intelligence.
Ethics for Project Managers
Business ethics represent the standards for right and wrong that govern how business people act. The term also refers to the study of moral principles in the workplace. This course reviews the major ethical issues facing project managers. It looks at the specific challenges project leaders may confront as they deal with team members, vendors, stakeholders, and sponsors.
PM Skills: Analysis and Problem Solving
As a project leader, one of your main responsibilities will be to not only collect project data but to also analyze that data to uncover any patterns and trends in project outputs. You will then have to mesh those data analysis skills with creative problem-solving techniques to keep your project on pace and aligned to meet its goals. This self-paced, fully online course will help you develop the expertise you’ll need to assess information, define problems, and uncover their root causes. You’ll learn how to develop and implement solutions in ways that will resolve issues without creating new risks. And you’ll begin to recognize the key role that analysis plays in your decision-making and problem-solving approaches, so you can efficiently guide projects to their successful conclusion.
PM Skills: Change Management
This self-paced, fully online course will help you address and manage the impact of any changes your team may encounter. You will explore the types, forces, and factors for change, and you’ll learn how to use change management initiatives and models to overcome resistance and foster engagement.
PM Skills: Communication
This self-paced, fully online course will help project leaders understand and coordinate verbal and written forms of communication within and between project teams. It will help focus and clarify communication techniques and allow clear, concise, and direct interactions among all project practitioners and stakeholders.
PM Skills: Conflict Management
This self-paced, fully online course will help project leaders recognize potential workplace conflicts early and intervene at the appropriate point so they can minimize disruptions. It introduces a robust infrastructure that can prevent stalemates and resentment from interfering with the team’s cohesion and solidarity. And it helps guide team members through forms of self-management so they can begin to correctly organize and settle disputes on their own.
PM Skills: Critical Thinking and Decision Making
This self-paced, fully online course will guide learners through a systematic decision-making process for making carefully considered choices and reaching fully examined conclusions. It will help to refine and develop critical thinking and reasoning skills that will enable project leaders to assess options, generate plans of action, and put their teams in positions to succeed.
PM Skills: Embracing Risk and Uncertainty
This self-paced, fully online course will help you view risk and uncertainty as a possibility instead of a danger. You’ll see uncertainty as a way to examine and improve on existing conditions, opening up new possibilities or pathways that will help you achieve your goals. And for those risks that truly are threats, you’ll develop a risk mitigation approach that will help you address problems and potentially uncover skills and abilities you can transfer to other areas of work to improve outcomes and results.
PM Skills: Expanding Focus and Alignment
project consists of many moving parts—people, resources, materials, and timelines, just to name a few. All of these parts connect and influence each other, and, as the project leader, it’s your job to ensure that all of the parts come together in the right way to achieve a specific goal. But, as many project leaders know, it’s never as simple as moving from point A to point B; projects are messy and nonlinear, so leaders need tools that will help them align project elements and see the bigger picture. Systems thinking provides a framework for better understanding the complex and ever-changing parts of a project. This methodology helps you think of your project as an interrelated part of the larger puzzle that your organization will use to meet its objectives.
PM Skills: Interaction and Engagement
This self-paced, fully online course will help you successfully collaborate with your stakeholders to improve your chances for project success. You’ll learn to identify, analyze, manage, and encourage your stakeholder groups to be an integral part of your project’s outcomes. And you’ll see how meaningful interaction and engagement can strengthen cooperative efforts and enhance results to exceed expectations and requirements.
PM Skills: Interpersonal Skills for Project Leaders
This self-paced, fully online course will help learners explore the key leadership and interpersonal skill set project leaders use to oversee projects and organize teams successfully. They’ll get an overview of the behaviors that support project management, which will allow them to productively address problems, keep teams on track, and build trust among their coworkers, colleagues, and stakeholders.
PM Skills: Leadership
In recent years, views of leadership have changed. Today there is a greater understanding of the varieties of leadership in business, government, education, healthcare, and not-for-profit organizations, as well as in more personal areas like team leadership and family settings. As a project leader, honing your leadership skills will allow you to successfully meet project objectives while motivating and engaging your team. Improving your leadership skills will enhance your standing as an asset to your organization while fostering team, project, and organizational evolution.
PM Skills: Negotiation
Negotiation is a key element of any project management approach. Project leaders regularly negotiate with various stakeholders—clients, teams, management, and leaders of other organizational projects—to move their own project toward completion. In some cases, a project’s success may depend on the project leader’s ability to address competing interests through negotiation. Fortunately, anyone can develop strong negotiation skills through learning, practice, focus, and negotiations training.
PM Skills: Planning and Project Design
This self-paced, fully online course will introduce you to the tools, techniques, and strategies you can use to develop successful projects and release plans. These tools and strategies can guide you in your efforts to create a just-in-time methodology that will complement your organization’s strategic and tactical plans and enhance your product life cycle planning in the most efficient way possible.
PM Skills: Tailoring and Adaptability
This self-paced, fully online course will help you understand what tailoring is, increase your adaptability, and identify what in your projects you need to tailor. Knowing what and how to tailor will only increase productivity and lead to a more successful coordination and organization of your projects and operations.
PM Skills: Team Development
This self-paced, fully online course will help learners enhance their team’s ability to work cooperatively by clearly defining roles and responsibilities and inviting team members to play to each other’s strengths. Learners will create, implement, and evaluate development programs that will help team members advance and improve and will learn to capitalize on team dynamic concepts to achieve success by better understanding team interactions.
PM Skills Toolkit: Communication Tools
In this course, you’ll explore several tools to help your project team members communicate and collaborate. You’ll examine verbal and written techniques, in-person and remote approaches, and one-to-one or one-to-many methods. Regardless of how it is structured, your team’s communication should be concise, direct, and take an appropriate form for the situation, to ensure that information is transmitted appropriately and project objectives continue to be met.
PM Skills Toolkit: Resource Negotiation Tools
Your ability to successfully identify these strategies as you negotiate for resources (and come to an agreement that will be most beneficial) is essential for your success as a project leader. For the duration of your project, you may have to negotiate with stakeholders both inside and outside of your organization, and the choices you make as you interact with these people and groups may be the difference between a successful venture and an unmitigated disaster.
Want to go further and add more than one course? Reach out to the CFTEA office and we will talk through specialized pricing that makes sense for you and your organization.
This bundle is about learning that sticks, skills you can use on Monday morning or the days that seem like Monday multiple times a week. Plus saving money while you do it. Practical, flexible, and built for the real world, because that is where your projects actually live.