Improving Project Performance Brochure

Programme structure This programme is highly interactive and you will be expected to contribute ideas, knowledge and experience at every stage. Team work features throughout to give you the experience of working with different groups of people in changing scenarios. To reinforce your learning by doing we use a variety of GLIIHUHQW VLPXODWHG VFHQDULRV ZKLFK LQFOXGHV &UDQͤHOG̵V XQLTXH SURMHFW PDQDJHPHQW simulations. 7KLV XQLTXH SURJUDPPH LV GHOLYHUHG LQ D VDIH DQG FRQͤGHQWLDO HQYLURQPHQW 7KLV PHDQV \RX can have the opportunity to try, do and say things which you might hesitate to do in your ZRUNSODFH WKURXJK WKLV \RX ZLOO JURZ LQ FRQͤGHQFH DQG DELOLW\ The programme directors will be available to you throughout the course and beyond to help ZLWK DQ\ LVVXHV \RX PD\ KDYH DIIHFWLQJ \RXU OHDUQLQJ DQG RU FDUHHU

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Day one • Registration.

• An overview of projects and programs. • Can you run a simple project? A simulation team work exercise. • Stakeholders: who is involved in your project and why you should take care. • Case study preparation. Day two • The way you and those around you learn. • About teams and your role preferences. • Collaborative techniques and why they are relevant today. • A practical collaborative exercise. • Case study preparation. Day three • Why we need to do projects. • Learning from failure. • Developing project scope.

• Preparing your post-project review. • Presenting your post-project review to your sponsor. Day six • Different contract styles and their relevance to project managers. • Learning to negotiate. • $ZDUHQHVV RI \RXU SUHIHUUHG FRQͥLFW VW\OH • Learning to be collaborative. • The importance of research capability to project managers. • Case study research and preparation. Day seven • Improving your presentation skills. • Case study rehearsal and feedback • Dealing with a crisis. • Crisis management case study. • Dealing with the media, live in a TV studio. • Case study preparation and rehearsal. Day eight • Case study presentation to invited sponsors. • Action planning and programme close.

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