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Management Training Seminars

By introducing our Management Training workshops 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 courses. 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.

For more information on our management training classes please contact us.

As a part of our management training courses, 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 Skills:
Exceptional Project Management - Projects, Programs and Portfolios

Recently I have been asked to explain the differences between a project, program and portfolio and how best to manage each.

Essentially, a project is a set of activities with a start and end that produce a unique output. Each project will involve initiating (starting), some work being undertaken and then closing (ending). Hopefully it will include some planning (of the work to be done), execution (doing the actual work) and some monitoring of progress to enable control of the activities.

A program is a group of closely related projects. The idea behind programs is that it may be more effective to manage related projects in a coordinated way. In practice this means that if two or more projects are involved in creating dependent parts of a product or service then they will probably benefit from some additional focus on the interdependencies between the projects.

Another way to think about this is that a program is a large project, creating a single outcome, which has been split into multiple smaller projects to make it more manageable.

A portfolio is a collection of projects that share common resources (such as staff or funding) but which may be otherwise quite independent. Portfolio management focuses on prioritization of work to use resources effectively and meet strategic business goals.

There may be a single portfolio, which is used to manage all of the organizations projects, or multiple portfolios focused on different strategic outcomes or covering different pools of resources ( for example different business units may have separate portfolios).

So a project is a way of managing work, a program is a collection of related projects and a portfolio is a collection of projects and programs which share common resources and support achieving business objectives.

Management of programs is similar to management of projects, in fact as a project becomes larger it begins to look more like a group of smaller projects. The role of a senior project manager transforms into that of project director and then into program manager.

In comparison, the management of a portfolio is very different. Portfolio management is mostly about prioritizing the use of scarce resources and deciding what gets done, when. Thus, portfolio management focuses on understanding the strategic needs of the business and determining where money and effort should be invested to maximize the benefits. Portfolio management also includes monitoring and reporting on the overall value being created by these projects to enable senior management to make more effective investment decisions.

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Subject: Management Skills

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