Improving Project Performance
Cranfield School of Management
How long?
- 8 days
- online
What are the topics?
Cranfield School of Management
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Who should attend
All executives involved in projects of any type across a wide range of industries. This programme is appropriate regardless of your role in the organisation.
About the course
A project management course from Cranfield, run in conjunction with the ECITB.
Improving Project Performance steps out of the theoretical and into a bold new arena of advanced practical experiences and lessons in project management.
This 7 day flagship course is designed to increase your ability to deliver complex projects, allowing you to make a more significant contribution to the future success of your business.
If you want to refresh and/or grow your skills in project management and make the transition into successful project management, then our Improving Project Performance programme is the right course for you.
What you will learn
- Control of your role in projects
- Enhanced project performance and greater self-awareness
- An improved project planning process
- The ability to handle cash flow and understand its importance to you, the team and your organisation
- Confidence to manage yourself and others more effectively
- Greater awareness of different contract styles and their advantages and disadvantages
- Positive relationship management.
Core content
- Project Control – implement cost and schedule control
- Planning – tools to ensure deadlines are always met and penalties avoided
- Productivity – identify areas of poor productivity and tackle the issues that cause it
- Personal – learn to build a strong cohesive team who share your vision and understand the role they must play to achieve project success
- Relationships – apply a framework for creating winning stakeholder relationships.
Experts
John Algar
John is in great demand as a lecturer and consultant worldwide and also as a problem solver and change agent within international organisations, especially those who know they have a problem but aren''t quite sure what it is. His experience in industry and ability to authentically engage with peo...
Stephen Carver
Prior to Cranfield University, Stephen worked on projects for the oil business before moving on to work at Virgin before working directly for a global CEO as head of Project & Programme Management Strategy. He has experience of Project and Programme Management in almost all business sectors f...
Bill Johnson
Bill''s careers have covered a wide choice of disciplines which have given him an insight into and knowledge of a large range of industries from automotive to tobacco, finance to health, telecoms to oil and gas. For the last 25 years the focus has been on helping others to understand project ...
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