Introduction
The program is designed to position the skills and understanding of participants so they can better appreciate the implications of their decisions to project success. In approaching the design of the program we have focused on the need for participants to learn through the experience of running a project and to that end we have included a computer- based simulation project. The program is designed to address project management concepts through the Five Phases of Project Management - Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing. Participants not only have hands-on experience in planning a project over the five phases of project management, they also get to take over the project and projects manage it to completion.

Objectives
By the end of this program, trainers/potential trainers will be able to: Describe the purpose and value of project management. Identify the critical phases and their components in project management. Develop clear project objectives and goals. Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) and set project milestones and deliverables. Identify the necessary actions to gain commitment from stakeholders. Know and be able to make trade-offs between project priorities and organizational demands. Discuss and be able to integrate project management tools with people needs.

Who should attend?
Current or potential project managers seeking to enhance their skills in managing projects, especially, project teams. Members of self-directed teams, cross-functional workgroups. Newly formed project teams who want to anticipate potential project problems

Key Topics
Successful Project Leadership
- Definition of Project Management
- Project Success factors and inhibitors based on different project phases.

The Project Road Map
- The Project Life Cycle, Initiating and Planning, Executing/Controlling and Closing
- Introduce the Project Roadmap tool which forms end-to-end basis for looking at the project.
- Through each phase of the Project Life Cycle (5 phases), i.e, Initiating,participants will have hands-on experience in the tasks involved.

Effective Project Teams
- Identify attributes of effective project teams
- Stages of group development
- Aligning leadership style effectively to team development phase.

The Complete Project Leader
- Experiential approach to learning where participants get to take over a project
- Computer-based simulation case study for Do-it-Better project.

Managing the End of a Project
- Identify the challenges at the closure of a project.
- Identify key closing activities.

Stakeholder Management
- Technique for identifying and analyzing stakeholders
- Develop stakeholder strategy.

Project Profile
- Profiler which you can use to assess your current projects and to build personal action plans for improvement.
- Benchmark against 82 successful projects
- 360 degree feedback questionnaire.

Project Leadership Notes
- Checklist for Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing your project. Template for planning your next project.