Project Management Training
Successful Project Management Skills
- Clients or customers don’t receive the project deliverables they were expecting
- Upper management receives poor quality progress and status reporting
- Scope creep affects the deliverables, costs and schedules of projects
- Only a few people are trusted as good project managers and they’re over-worked
- Project managers get caught up in the detail and lose sight of the big picture
- Silos or barriers to communication exist between critical departments and could be broken down through project management training
- Project managers fight for the same top 20% of employees as preferred team members
- Up-front coordination problems make project work more difficult than it needs to be
- Project control and management suffers from lack of information availability
- Matrix project environment is causing problems for managers and employees
- Project managers lose control of the scope, schedule and budget of projects
- Project managers haven’t received formal project management training
- Product development cycles could be shortened by using concepts learned in product development training
- Product managers oversee new products without product development training
How to be a More Effective Team Member
- Team members don’t accept accountability & responsibility
- Deadlines and due dates get missed because of miscommunication
- Collaboration isn’t effective because teams don’t work well together
- Frustration is effecting working relationships
- Team members are doing what they ‘want’ to do and not what they ‘need’ to do
- There’s too much finger pointing and fault finding in team meetings
- Individual agendas take over team or project agendas
- Team members get defensive when constructive comments are made
- Non-productive team members expect the ‘thoroughbreds’ to pick up their slack
- Project team members haven’t been introduced to any project management training
Working in a Matrix – Influence without Authority
- Matrix/Project managers have all the responsibility but no authority to get things done
- Internal politics is effecting manager’s ability to lead
- Employees aren’t sure who they work for in matrix environment
- Project deadlines and due dates are being missed
- Project results and quality aren’t what they should be
- Decisions are being overturned by managers higher in the matrix
- Clear communication is being hampered because of multiple matrix ‘channels’
- Priorities are changing too quickly without regard to impact on the job
- Matrix managers haven’t received project management training
Manage & Motivate Effective Teams
- People and departments aren’t working well together
- Inadequate coordination and communications takes place between functions
- People don’t want to accept or adopt change, new ideas and directions
- Animosity between departments that creates an unproductive work climate can be reduced through team building training
- Backbiting and infighting affect performance and quality
- Negative comments are made in front of employees, other managers, customers and clients
- Newer team members aren’t readily accepted by experienced team members
- Small problems or misunderstandings quickly escalate into major issues
- Managers and supervisors haven’t received team building or project management training
Interpersonal Skills for Teams
- Individual team members don’t accept their accountability or responsibility
- Teams productivity is declining and they are missing deadlines and due dates
- Personal agendas are fragmenting teams
- Team members are afraid to really say what is on their minds
- The current level of trust has diminished between teams and management
- Blaming and finger-pointing is becoming common place
- Competition has replaced collaboration as the rule when working together
- There is increased conflict among teams and management
- Complaints, griping and negativity is increasing
- Members feel the team has become reactive rather than proactive
Effectively Managing Time & Multiple Priorities
- Deadlines and due dates are being missed on a regular basis
- People confuse effort and results in getting things done
- Unnecessary stress and pressure are affecting employee performance
- Unnecessary stress and pressure are affecting interpersonal relationships
- The wrong priorities and work assignments are viewed as important
- Employees are wasting too much time
- Too much time is lost in unproductive and uninformative meetings
- Procrastination is causing important jobs to become unnecessary crises
- People are trying the best they can, but efforts could be enhanced through time management training
- Employees involved in projects haven’t received project management training
