Management Training and Workshop Facilitation

Subject areas

All courses and workshops can be tailored to suit our clients' requirements
The following are examples. Please contact us for a discussion.

Strategy Review
This is bespoke, by arrangement, and company focussed. Through working directly with you and your team we can develop with you your strategy for your success. An introductory day will produce a plan for your future.
Project and Programme Management
Project Success
We all have different views of what project success is, but it is vital for companies and their teams to have a common view. We can helpyou develop that view to ensure you and your team, employees and suppliers can contribute to your vision for success.
Building Information Modelling and Asset Management
This one day course is best delivered to a group including top team, staff and suppliers. We will examine together the requirements for effective and efficient asset management - canals, roads, rail, bridges, hospitals, housing, ports - and ensure that your approach consiers the whole life of your assets, recognising the needs for cost savings, environmental savings, and health and safety.
Process Mapping and Process Review
This one day session is designed to identify where you and your company can achieve savings in operational and maangement processes, addressing all aspects of your organisation, whether public, private, or third sector.
Change Management
Management is about change. What is holding your company back? What are the barriers and how can you overcome them?
An open discussion for a day. Where will it lead?
Data Management
What data do you need, what do you have, and how useful is it? Making the best of information that should be at your fingertips is a common problem. It might be as simple as addresses or key contacts. It might be as complex as international procurement and supply chains.
Let's explore this together.

Strategy Review

Key tools for reviews - SWOT, PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain
Supplier Resilience
Market research and Competitor analysis

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Project and Programme management

We provide a range of courses and workshops examples of which are below. All courses can be tailored for individual clients.

An Introductionj

This is designed to ensure that everyone understands what a project is, why they matter, and what the essnetial roles are. Includes a participative session developed to ensure that everyone will take away the essential components of planning a real project. The course is intended for everyone new to project management as manager or team member.

Corporate Understanding

Intended to consider what constitutes a programme, a portfolio, a project, and how to get the best out of them. Output: consistent understanding throughout the organisation of what projects are and an introduction on the roles people have.

Overview for Executives

A more practical aspect than the corporate understanding element, and it could run straight after that. It is designed for executive managers and project managers. Outputs: understanding the ways in which programmes and projects are organised and the roles of project directors, project managers, the project team, and how responsibility is delegated. Clarity of personal roles in existing and future projects, important to delivery.

Project Success – what it means and how to achieve it

A workshop, intended to be in-house but can also be for multiple organisations. Outputs are clarity over what success means for the participants and their organisation(s) and some real actions they can take to achieve that. There is more detail on this below.

Risk management in programmes and projects

A workshop designed to develop a practical risk approach for programmes and projects. Considers and includes external, internal, programme and project risks. Outputs can include specific action for the organisation.

Courses can be tailored to your specific requirements, covering:

Project Management Introduction
Project Organisation
Project management methodology
Project set-up
Project planning
Project closure
Project reviews

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While courses can and should be tailored to meet the needs of the participants, typically courses draw on material drawn from the following:

An introductory course:

1. Overview of the Fundamentals of Project Management

This course is designed to provide the student with insight to the fundamentals of project management and how to understand the various activities and benefits.

2. Why Project Management is Essential

3. The Demand for Project Management

4. Project Management Best Practice & Definitions

4.1. Reference to standard methodologies, especially PRINCE2 and a separate general text book which uses a similar approach

4.2. Success

4.3. Initiation

4.4. Business Case Development

4.5. Organisation

5. Communication and Control

6. Qualities and Competencies

6.1. Project Sponsor

6.2. Project Manager

Advanced Project Management

1. Introduction

This covers the main components from the above

2. Organisation

2.1. Internal and External Roles and Responsibilities

2.2. Managing Relationships

2.3. Communication

3. Assessing Needs and Planning Development Activities

3.1. Work Breakdown Structure

3.2. Product Breakdown Structure

4. Changes to the projects

4.1.Cost control

4.2.Change control

5. Stages and Stage Management

6. Earned Value Management

7. Assessing and Managing the Risk

8. Managing the Project Team Members

9. Managing Creativity and Conflict

10. Planning and Activating the Closure Point

11. Project Closure

Throughout we use a mix of presentation and workshops, with case studies ideally drawn from the participants

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Achieving Project Success

A one-day workshop for executives, senior management and project managers

The Project Success discusses the key aspects which need to be covered in order to ensure success for your projects and therefore for your organisation.

When running this workshop we always aim to ensure that there are direct actions afterwards so that the people involved and their organisations can achioeve early benefits. Examples include identifying improvements to project planning and project selection.

This course includes:

· A detailed introduction to projects including an explanation of the different structures, and terms

· A detailed explanation of what is meant by success including an appreciation of the criteria for success, and success factors

· An appreciation of how we measure success, and what affects it including how to establish projects so that they do succeed, considering all aspects of projects, stakeholders, controls and communications.

1. Introduction, identifying participants’ expectations, and outlining the course

2. Projects: what causes them to happen?

3. What is Success?

4. Project failure - causes

5. Project Benefits

6. Success Criteria and Success Factors

7. Project Controls

8. Project Success and Project Management Success

9. Organisational structure

10. Key steps for success

11. Conclusion

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Process Mapping

Process analysis
Process review
Process redesign

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General Management

Negotiation
Presentation

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Change Management

The generic material on which our course is based is below.

Introductions
Change and its purpose
Change Theory
Dealing with change
Change in Context
The role of Communication in achieving change
Conclusion

An example of a workshop is below:

Change and its purpose
Dealing with change - its effects
Barriers to these changes
Culture change
Changes to the organisation
Changes to processes
Fit for purpose: Delivery excellence; ‘Customer’ service; Errors and their sources
Communications
Who’s who of change
Building your Change Action plan
Next Steps - Actions for Participants

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Data Management

Data management is fundamental to all businesses. This workshop is designed to ensure that the approach to data management enables focus on the data you need in order to meet your business's requirements. The material is based on experience, and particpants are expected to bring their own examples so that there are direct benefits for them and their organisation.

Rolling out data management nationally to the public sector,
A series of workshops created specifically for general practice managers,
Information management in a pharmaceutical company
Information sharing in construction.

The outline for the workshop is below. It is designed to ensure that particpants leave with specific 'next steps' to enable them to achieve early benefits.

Background
Strategy and Vision
Data Information Knowledge Wisdom
Sharing and Security
Case Histories, Best Practice
Problems and Solutions
Next Steps
Conclusion
Ten Tips
References

If you are interested in discussing a possible course please contact us.

Management Training and Workshop Facilitation

Subject areas

Strategy Review This is bespoke, by arrangement, and company focussed. Through working directly with you and your team we can develop with you your strategy for your success. An introductory day will produce a plan for your future.

Process Mapping and Process Review This one day session is designed to identify where you and your company can achieve savings in operational and maangement processes, addressing all aspects of your organisation, whether public, private, or third sector.

Change Management Management is about change. What is holding your company back? What are the barriers and how can you overcome them? An open discussion for a day. Where will it lead?

Strategy Review

Project and Programme management

An introductory course:

Advanced Project Management

Achieving Project Success

Process Mapping

General Management

Change Management

Data Management

Strategy Review
This is bespoke, by arrangement, and company focussed. Through working directly with you and your team we can develop with you your strategy for your success. An introductory day will produce a plan for your future.

Process Mapping and Process Review
This one day session is designed to identify where you and your company can achieve savings in operational and maangement processes, addressing all aspects of your organisation, whether public, private, or third sector.

Change Management
Management is about change. What is holding your company back? What are the barriers and how can you overcome them?
An open discussion for a day. Where will it lead?