Advanced Project Management Course

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HRODC Postgraduate Training Institute, A Postgraduate-Only Institution

Comments about Advanced Project Management Course - At the institution - London - Greater London

• Objectives
  By the conclusion of the specific learning & development activities, delegates will be able to:
  
  
  1. Demonstrate their understanding of the concept of project management
  
  
  2. Illustrate the pertinent issues associated with project sustainability
  
  
  3. Portray a heightened understanding of project development
  
  
  4. Highlight and internalise crucial project planning issues
  
  
  5. Deconstruct team management in a problem solving setting
  
  
  6. Apply the most appropriate project management methodology to both real and hypothetical settings
  
  
  7. Recommend a project control system that may be applied to a given scenario
  
  
  8. Devise a viable sourcing strategy, relevant to a particular project setting
  
  
  9. Conduct both pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
  
  
  10. Facilitate a ‘scoping study’
  
  
  11. Apply scoping strategy to a sustainability setting
  
  
  12. Address key issues associated with meeting management
  
  
  13. Ensure that project agreements are legally ‘water-tight’
  
  
  14. View project structure as the system of relationship that persists
  
  
  15. Have demonstrated an understanding of mind mapping and fish bone method
  
  
  16. Apply tracking timing and costs, contingencies to project management
  
  
  17. Project a heightened awareness of the need to develop an excellent working relationship with suppliers and sub-contractors
• Practical experience
  Use of Video Cases; Written Cases; Simulations and Industrial Visits.
• Entry requirements
  1st Degree or Equivalent Qualification
• Academic title
  Diploma - Postgraduate in Advanced Project Management
• Course description

   Contents, Concepts and Issues
  
  General Project Management Issues
  
  1.       Concept of Project Management
  
  2.       Project Sustainability
  
  3.       Developing a Project
  
  4.       Project Planning
  
  5.       Team management & problem solving
  
  6.       Project management methodologies, tools and techniques
  
  7.       Some problem solving techniques
  
  8.       Project control
  
  9.       Project Purchasing
  
  10.   Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
  
  11.   Scoping, strategy setting and final agreement
  
  12.   Project structure and managing meetings
  
  13.   Process and event based methodologies, software packages, flow charts, imagineering
  
  14.   Mind Mapping, fish bone method, ‘Is and Is Not’ and Brain Storming
  
  15.   Tracking timing and costs, contingencies
  
  16.   Working with suppliers and sub-contractors
  
  Risk and Financial Risk Management in Advanced Project Management
  
  17.   Defining risk – generally, and in a project management setting
  
  18.   Relating risk management to projects and project management
  
  19.   Financial risk management and project management
  
  20.   Risk exposure in a project setting
  
  21.   Project risk and ‘Market Dynamics’
  
  22.   Liquidity in project management
  
  23.   Operating risk and financial liability
  
  24.   Fraud risk and project management
  
  25.   Link settlement risk with ‘survival imperative’  
  
  26.   Project management strategy and risk management
  
  27.   Currency derivatives market and ‘project sustainability’
  
  Motivating Workers in Advanced Project Management
  
  28.   Directing Or Leading in a project setting
  
  29.   The Concept of Motivation
  
  30.   Applying Content Theories of Motivation to Project Settings
  
  31.   Taylor’s Money-Motivator as a reward strategy
  
  32.   Motivator-Hygiene Factor: Using Herzberg’s ideas as a basis for an effective ‘Employee Relations Strategy’
  
  33.   Applying Equity Theory: Recognising Inequity
  
  34.   Goal-Setting Theory: Performance Management Application
  
  35.   Expectancy Theory: What does Valence holds for project management targets?
  
  36.   Improving Project Sustainability Through an Equitable Reward System
  
  37.   Reinforcement Theories:
  
  38.   Reinforcement Theory
  
  39.   Motivation & Contingency Theory: Accounting for Situational Variables
  
  40.   Is Performance Related Pay (PRP) applicable to a Project Management Setting?
  
  41.   Designing An Effective Motivation Strategy: Accounting for Internal and External Project Dynamics
  
  42.   Introducing Talent Management: Creating and Equitable Solution
  
  43.   The extent to which salary or wages inducement motivate workers

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