Advanced Diploma of Project Management
08-01-2024 - 12-01-2024 | 3300 | دبي |
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Projects are delivered by people and their attitudes and soft skills can make a massive difference to the success of project. The major difference between a project manager, and a ‘Master’ project manager lies in the ability to understand that successful Project Management is about 20% Hard Skills and about 80% Soft Skills. It goes without saying that ‘what’ you do as a project manager is important, but ‘how’ you do it is absolutely critical.
Project management is an art and your success in mastering this art is dependent upon your ability to swiftly navigate the project challenges of working with others.
This program demonstrates the practice of project management soft skills. It provides a range of soft skills tools and techniques that project managers can use to reduce people-related risks and overcome interpersonal hurdles. The program presents a number of ‘critical’ habits related to how you manage projects through, and with, people. Issues such as time management, personality types, how to understand and develop your team members, developing your leadership skills, conflict management, negotiation skills, building and motivating your team are comprehensively covered.
Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:
Competencies Emphasized
Personal Impact
This program examines a wide range of soft skills necessary for mastering the art of project management. It helps participants to develop a more effective approach to interacting with project stakeholders in a way that is driven by realizing outcomes.
Organizational Impact
This program has been designed for project managers who aspire to master their inter-personal skills in the context of managing projects in the best way possible to meet project objectives. The organization will benefit by having its project managers’ personal effectiveness tuned towards producing project outcomes. Mastering project management soft skills is a key to achieve project goals and enhance performance.
This course is intended for
· Companies and contractors working on offshore projects
· All persons interested in or concerned with future energy supplies
· Shipbuilding yards involved in the vessel construction
· Marine bases personnel
· Oil and gas engineers
· Operational support team leaders and members
· Government and regulation officials
· Newly qualified engineers
· Energy and finance sector analysts
Day 1:
Introduction to Projects
· What is a project?
· Benefits of project management
· Why some projects fail?
· What makes you a ‘Master’ of project management
· Project team and leadership
· What is the team approach
· Roles in and around projects
· The 8 habits of ‘Master’ project manager
Day 2:
Identify Your Outcomes and Plan for Achievement
· The importance of knowing your outcomes
· Project planning
· Handling uncertainty
· Decision analysis under risk
· Your own risk profile
· Defining project success criteria
· Planning issues
· Elements of a great project plan
Day 3:
Organize for Success and Gain & Maintain Commitment
· Personal attitudes and human behaviors
· Gaining and maintaining commitment
· The keys to effective influence and persuasion
· Understanding interpersonal project team dynamics
· Empowerment
· The project board
· The project support office
· Effective delegation
Day 4:
Take Massive Action and Stay Focused
· Action vs. Achievements
· Influences on decision making
· Problem solving styles
· Engaging the project team
· Staying focused
· Avoiding distractions
· Effective time utilization
· Plan updating and changes handling
Day 5:
Monitor and Control Achievements
· Data, information and knowledge management
· Integrating project scope, time and cost
· Performance measures and indicators to monitor performance
· Achieving practical conflict management
· Determinants of project success
· Lessons learned and creating learning culture
A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:
· (30%) Based on Case Studies
· (30%) Techniques
· (30%) Role Play
· (10%) Concepts
· Pre-test and Post-test
· Variety of Learning Methods
· Lectures
· Case Studies and Self Questionaires
· Group Work
· Discussion
· Presentation
This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.
Daily Course Timings:
08:00 - 08:20 Morning Coffee / Tea
08:20 - 10:00 First Session
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee / Tea / Snacks
10:20 - 12:20 Second Session
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch Break & Prayer Break
13:30 - 15:00 Last Session