Course Objectives.

• Planning management and coordination as standard processes
• Change management as a key to planning and project success
• Personal change management that impacts positively on project coordination
• Efficient and effective productivity in personal and a project team’s work
• Improve personal planning of project work
• Change that impacts the success of project work
• Key leadership project management skills for self and team
• Positive interpersonal people relationships to get project work completed
• Communication and interpersonal skills that establish successful project coordination
• Personal change management being a key to project work success

Course Outline

Strategic Management and Project Coordination

• Introductions
• Course purpose, goals and objectives
• Overview and context of organizational change and the impact on project work
• Understanding of the current status of the organization, team and project work
• Review of management processes and skill areas
• Using an initiation process to begin project work
• Identifying project and project management work

Importance of Planning in Coordination of Project Work

• Integrating a scope, work structure and management plan in projects
• Identifying initial resource requirements and task durations
• Identifying risk techniques that affect project assignments
• Communication that responds to: who, what where, when, how, why
• Understanding the importance of quality planning in work assignments
• Dealing with the change process in project coordination

Communications as a Project Coordination Skill

• Fundamentals of interpersonal communication
• Interpersonal communication is a two-way process
• Interpersonal interaction preferences differ
• Communication is listening to our project colleagues
• Importance and techniques of active listening

Using Interpersonal Skills to Better Coordinate Project Work

• Learning the personality styles of project group members
• Using diverse behavior styles to meet project goals and objectives
• Learning techniques to use communication for success in a project assignment
• Understand the characteristics of effective project groups
• Identifying techniques to assess personal and project group performance

Innovation, Improvement and Personal Change in Project Coordination

• Innovation and improvement for personal and team change
• Identification of change processes and human change
• Techniques to set personal and team change goals
• Dealing with people who do not want change
• Developing an action plan for personal and team change

Who Should Attend?

• The course is designed for persons who are involved in project type work and who desire to learn practical project management techniques in planning, coordination and interpersonal interaction.  The course is also appropriate for a person responsible for managing a group or team and who want to learn some basic management skills to be more effective in their work coordination