Professional Project Management Skills Course Code: GS-036

Nowadays key project management skills are essential for literally everyone, since our life consists of numerous projects, both at work and outside of it. In fact, every event goes through the project management (PM) stages of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing, whether it is a new marketing campaign, planning your vacation, or building a new skyscraper. PM skills can’t be optional anymore; they are now must-have for modern professionals, and our PMP training can help to gain them.

This project management skills course is a great help for your PMP certification and will guide you through all stages of PM and simultaneously provide you with the competencies needed for each step. Learn about leadership and communication to ensure that your plans and goals are understandable and can be delivered. You will learn how to avoid most of the mistakes that usually happen at various stages of a project by delving into the intricacies of project planning and scheduling. By the end of this PMP course, you will know the fundamentals of costs estimation, be able to negotiate with different levels of stakeholders, improve your critical thinking and project coordinator skills, and implement project quality management techniques that will be useful for your career no matter which industry you are in.

In addition to the competencies mentioned above, by the end of our PM course, you will also cover and master the following list of skills for a project manager:

• Understand modern PM frameworks
• Inspire and motivate both internal and external stakeholders
• Know how to make a timeline calendar
• Cover the essentials of Risk Management and its applications
• Assign resources and schedule tasks for project activities
• Practice reliable forecasting techniques and methods

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Program Managers
• Project Portfolio Managers
• Individuals who are going to take the PMP exam
• Newly appointed project managers who want to brush up their skills
• Professionals who want to enhance their project management skills
• People considering a career change to project management

• Learn all the fundamentals of project management for success in the business world
• Become an irreplaceable specialist, fully armed with crucial PM competencies
• Articulate your project vision, mission, and goals with passion and professionalism
• Raise your communication and interpersonal skills to the next level
• Understand the basics of contract management to prevent uncertainty in the future
• Exercise proven tools and methods to detect a project’s constraints
• Schedule tasks and assign responsibilities based on data, not intuition
• Become a master of project negotiations and advocate for your opinion
• Employ data to justify and improve the quality of critical business decisions
• Know how to determine the requirements for a project’s quality
• Lead your project and organization to the highest peaks of efficiency via PM skills

• Extensive Workbook with Course Materials
• Handouts and other Supporting Materials
• Practical Examples and Various Case Studies
• Quick Reference/Top Tips Guide
• Professional & Experienced Instructor
• Accelerated and Intensive Learning Techniques
• Relationship Building within Course
• Post Course Action Plan
• Index of Additional Suggested Materials
• Course Completion Certificate

• Project Management Overview
  • Introduction to project management
  • Qualities of great project managers
  • Project management frameworks
• Project Leadership
  • Articulating the project vision, mission, and goals
  • Inspiring and motivating project stakeholders
  • Resolving project conflicts and crisis
• Project Communication
  • Active listening for project managers
  • Asking questions effectively
  • Ensuring open, honest and frequent communication
  • Developing strong project communication plans
• Project Planning
  • Fundamentals of Risk Management
  • Developing project documentation
  • Basics of Contract Management
  • Determining project scope
  • Understanding project limitations
  • Finalizing plans and getting approvals
• Project Scheduling
  • Task and Time Management – essentials you must know
  • Defining activities and Work Breakdown Structure
  • Determining activity dependencies
  • Using visual tools like Gantt and PERT charts
  • Assigning resources for project activities
  • Scheduling tasks
  • Monitoring project schedules
• Project Cost Management
  • Estimating costs accurately
  • Estimating earned value
  • Forecasting techniques
  • Analyzing budget variances
  • Contingency planning for budgets
• Project Negotiation
  • Internal negotiations with internal stakeholders
  • External negotiations with external stakeholders
  • Preparing for negotiations
  • Communication best practices during negotiations
  • Closing a project negotiation
• Critical Thinking in Project Management
  • Analyzing resource allocation
  • Evaluating progress in project development
  • Using data to make critical business decisions
• Project Quality Management
  • Determining quality requirements in projects
  • Anticipating potential quality issues
  • Tracking quality progress
  • Avoiding gold plating
• Project Closure
  • Mistakes made at this stage and how to prevent them