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Staff Development

Project Management

Unit value:

This is a two-day course that will arm you with powerful skills and techniques that professional project managers use to smooth out problems, meet deadlines and get results.

Target audience:

Those people who have to manage projects that involve liaising with colleagues, and external organisations, and lead project groups whose members may not report directly to them.

Objectives:

By the end of the course participants will:

  • Understand how to agree a precise specification for a project
  • Appreciate the tools involved in planning a project including the use of tools such as critical path analysis and Gantt charts
  • Know how to agree and delegate project actions
  • Understand the principles of managing a project team
  • Be more effective at managing deadlines, monitoring and controlling progress
  • Know how to successfully close a project