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:
Nine Skills of Project Management Knowledge Seminars

There are nine knowledge areas or categories of the project management discipline. Gaining expertise in any one of these knowledge areas can help you become a rock star in your organization. Understanding and applying all nine will make you irreplaceable. Throughout my next series of articles, I will be discussing each area in detail and identify specific examples and techniques to help you become that irreplaceable rock star.

To begin this new series, I want to reference Kathy Schwalbe, Ph.D, PMP, and professor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an active member of the PMI and an expert in the industry, she has written several textbooks and how-to guides on the subject. In her book "Information Technology Project Management", she describes each of the nine knowledge areas and identifies some of the tools and techniques used in each area. These knowledge areas include:

1. Integration Management - project selection methods and methodologies, stakeholder analyses, charters, project management plans, project management software, change requests, change control boards, review meetings, and lessons-learned reports.

2. Scope Management - scope statements, work breakdown structures, mind maps, statements of work, requirements analyses, scope management plans, scope verification techniques, and scope change controls.

3. Time Management - Gantt charts, project network diagrams, critical-path analyses, crashing, fast tracking, schedule performance measurements.

4. Cost Management - Net present value, return on investment, payback analyses, earned value management, project portfolio management, cost estimates, managing cost plans, and cost baselines.

5. Quality Management - Quality metrics, checklists, quality control charts, Pareto diagrams, fishbone diagrams, maturity models, and statistical models.

6. Human Resource Management - Motivation techniques, empathic listening, responsibility assignment matrices, project organizational charts, resource histograms, and team building exercises.

7. Communications Management - Communications plans, kickoff meetings, conflict resolution, communications media selection, status and progress reports, virtual communications, templates, and project web sites.

8. Risk Management - Risk management plans, risk registers, probability/impact matrices, and risk rankings.

9. Procurement Management - Make-or-buy analyses, contracts, request for proposals or quotes, source selections, supplier evaluation matrices.

*Schwalbe, Information Technology Project Management, Sixth Edition, 2010.

Stay tuned for my next article about Integration Management in which I will identify four keys to help you better integrate projects, resources, and people into your work management process.

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Subject: Management Seminars

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