| As the pace of change in organisations has increased, so has the amount of project work people are expected to do. Project management skills have therefore become important at all levels of organisational life. |
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| However, many people are thrown into project work with inadequate training. To make matters worse, traditional project management training tends to be about project administration and control rather than practical everyday application and actually getting the job done. Improve Your Projects is different. It will show participants how to set up projects and get them off to the best possible start. It will also show how to carry out projects in a systematic, step-by-step fashion and how to involve people at each stage. |
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| Improve Your Projects provides a common sense approach that is practical and is proven to work in the real world. Over the last few years, more than 1000 people have attended the course from a wide range of organisations and industries, from Chief Executives to junior managers and experienced project professionals to novices. |
| • | What a project is and how it is different from day-to-day work. |
| • | The UIMPROVE framework for setting up and running projects. This can be applied in all organisations and industries. |
| • | Five Key Concepts that underpin the approach |
| • | How to set up projects properly with a clear remit. |
| • | Different roles in projects. |
| • | Different ways to involve people in projects along with tools and techniques for doing this. |
| • | How to 'kick-start' a project. This means running an initial meeting that is highly structured using tools and techniques with a wide range of involvement to ensure buy-in and alignment. |
| • | A set of project methodologies that provide step-by-step guidance from the beginning to the end of any project. |
| • | How to take an individual project and break it down into its component parts, identifying timescales, actions and milestones. |
| • | Tools for Planning and Organising-Brainstorming, Clustering-by-Theme, Must-Should-Could, TPN Analysis, Chronological Clustering and Gantt Charts - participants learn how and when to use each of these. |
| • | Techniques for working with project teams - simple but highly effective structural techniques that will increase participation, variety, productivity and enjoyment of project team meetings. |
| Participants learn both hard and soft skills. Project methodologies, tools and techniques sit alongside how to involve people and how to handle project team meetings in an integrated fashion. |
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"Clear, simple, practical and useable." |
| • | "This course hit me like a ton of bricks. I hadn't realised how up-in-the-air all my projects were". |
| • | "I learned something practical that I have been using every day. This is the most useful course I have been on". |
| • | "This is not just a training course, it is a whole approach to improving everything you do". |
| • | "Anybody who is involved in change should attend this course". |
| • | "I've learned a lot about making my project work more effective and also the way I plan my work. I am much more organised than I was before and have tools to ensure the effectiveness of any project I am working on". |
| • | "The UIC don't just talk about continuous improvement, they do it for real. Tired of death by PowerPoint? The UIC provide the perfect antidote. Their relaxed and engaging style backed by practical lessons means that you come away enthused and ready to put your learning into practice."
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