Our Management Training Seminars

By introducing our Management Training Seminars to your staff we help ease the negative effect of change on both managerial and supervisory personnel. The change in job responsibilities, the change in personnel, job duties, and the rising challenge of developing subordinates are specific goals of our learning systems seminars. We are highly successful at helping Managers and Supervisors learn and adapt to the necessary skills and proper behaviors to be successful at work as well as in their personal lives.

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As a part of our management training seminars, Managers and Supervisors will learn how to:

• Minimize the chance of miscommunication by understanding what people are really saying, and why
• Deal with difficult people, manage tense situations, and resolve conflict
• Make use of proven active listening skills to improve your ability to gain helpful information
• Be able to facilitate, guide, and close discussions in one-on-one or group settings
• Improve understanding and communication by giving and receiving good feedback
• Use ideas submitted by a member of the team without causing other members to be defensive
• Develop a comprehensive team building strategy that improves productivity of the whole team
• Emphasize the value of working toward common goals without devaluing individual accomplishment
• Define and set up a method to track staff activities
• Be able to manage time and work assignments effectively
• Conduct team meetings that capture and hold the audience’s attention
• Interview and hire the right person for the right job
• Save time and work more effectively through the use of a clear time management plan
• Understand and comply with proper hiring and managing requirements
• Communicate effectively with both superiors, peers and subordinates
• Become effective coaches for their work team
• Conduct accurate and difficult performance appraisals

 

Management Training Tips:
The 8 Most Common Project Management Mistakes

The following list has itemized some of the most common project management mistakes which people tend to make in driving projects. We were hoping that this list helps to identify some of the common areas where errors and mistakes normally occur. All these mistakes can surely be avoided if each of us pay additional attention to important details. Avoiding these common mistakes inevitably increase the success rate of a project.

1. Lack of resources with the appropriate skill-sets to assist in the project:

Impact: improperly allocating resources is one of the most critical mistakes made in project management. Getting the right people with the right skill-set in the right place (job / task) at the right time is essential and necessary. In time of resource constraint, management will try to pull in anyone to run and drive for any adhoc project as long as he/she has the bandwidth at that time.

Proposal: Management needs to support this by providing the necessary support such as: hiring consultants, out-sourcing vendors, hiring of contractors, proper and rightful resource and sent their potential people for useful and effective trainings. People managers and organizations will need to synchronize the people and the projects as best as they can.

2.  Lack of experienced project manager with the necessary project management skill:

Impact: Projects can easily get out of control without having a good project manager watching over the progress of the project closely.

Proposal: Experienced project management with accredited Program management certificate will definitely add value in driving for the success of the project. From experience and exposure, an experienced project lead can easily call out some of the potential areas where gaps usually surfaced from. A good project manager excels in people management and communicated well with different level of people across the organization.

3. Lack of Traceability on the frequent changes made to the project

Impact: The budget, resources and timeline will be impacted because of this.

Proposal: No changes can be added into the scope after the cut off date. After the cut off date, any urgent changes / requirements will need to go through the proper process to get all the necessary approvals before they will be reviewed. Only urgent requests with good justifications backups will be considered. The change request committee will review only the prioritized change requests.

4. Problems Get Ignored

Impact: Problem areas which were ignored or left aside will not disappear over night. Any trivial issue might turn into severe problem if it has not being resolved earliest possible.

Proposal: Project management problems are inevitable in any project. What can be done best is to carry out as many testing as we possibly can to stimulate and validate before the real deployment is here.

5. No proper planning

Impact: Planning is crucial. The project scope and objectives need to be clearly defined during the project management planning phase. Without a proper plan (which both party have buy in, such as the project manager and the stake-holders) No project can move ahead as there is no synergy among the team members and there is no firm strategy where the team can tightly hold on to.

Proposal: One way to develop more potential managers is to equip them with the right knowledge by registering them into Project management courses and provide them with the essential knowledge. They will leverage from these programs on how effective and powerful 'planning' is and how they should be carried out.

6. They fail to see the dependencies between projects.

Impact: 99% of the projects in an organization are interdependent among each other. Project management needs to take this into consideration whenever they ask for any new requirements or changes as these may impact others as well.

Proposal : Project managers need to carry a high level wholly view on what's happening in the organization, Apart from that, consistent engagement with the stake-holders, key business teams will add value in the organization holistic projects' planning.

7. Communication Issues.

Impact: Communication is the key to every project. Good communication is essential for any project, no matter it is big or small. Everyone has the responsibility to ensure the messages that they communicated are clear and correct among the project teams.

Proposal: a project manager needs to have great communication skills with the right attitude. However it is almost impossible to avoid communication issues in a project team, especially in a big project with many participants. Thus, building an easy and open atmosphere among the team members and the project lead is important so that the communication goes both ways.

8.  Some key dependencies have been overlooked

Impact: The key dependencies with their impacts might be:

- Resources engagement: such as testing & development resources will be badly constraint if proper planning has not being taken care of ahead of the projects.

- Testing environment readiness: many a times, people realized that they do not have a testing environment or the testing environment is not ready one or two weeks before the testing commence. This will cause terrible issues to the whole project milestone.

Source: http://projectmanageradvice.com/

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