Project Management

About this event

This course has sold out - however you can now register for the upcoming Project Management on the 19th and 20th of May in Christchurch here.

A well-run project delivers improved organisational performance at an effective cost. A badly-run project can mire your organisation in confusion, cost and even scandal.

• Have you got any new project managers?
• Do your staff understand what your project managers do?
• Does your team all speak the same project management language?
• Does your team all follow the same project management methodology?
• Do you understand the psychology of business and how it applies to running projects?

This two day comprehensive programme will take people with little or no prior project management experience and give them a good grounding in the fundamentals that will enable them to tackle an everyday project logically, competently and with confidence. This two day workshop also offers the opportunity for participants to put their project skills into action and have them evaluated and developed.

This workshop will:

• Provide students with an overview of project management for local authorities
• Create an understanding of why project management is important
• Point out the dangers that arise from poor project management
• Introduce you to the terminology of project management, and
• Teach a common methodology

Who should attend?

This workshop is intended to instil the basics of good project management at all levels of an organization.

It is appropriate therefore for a wide range of staff and will benefit anyone who:

• Is working as part of a project team
• Is in a support role to a project
• Hopes to be selected for inclusion in a project team
• Has the responsibility to supervise a project