2008-09-30 23:08:01 -

www.researchandmarkets.com - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8ec4b9/training_for_proje) has announced the addition of the "Training for Project Management, Second Edition" report to their offering.

Managing by projects is about how people work and interact when they set out to create something new -- a new product ... a new service ... a new way of working together. Whilst this approach to management has become the norm over the last ten years in manufacturing, service and the public sector, many managers and project team members are still learning the skills of what may be, for them, a very new way of working.

This manual contains exercises and activities which stimulate learning about managing projects, focusing particularly on the people and leadership

aspects. They are intended not only to make learning more fun, but also to speed up the process.

The activities in the collection cover five distinct areas:

-Project Management Principles

-Setting Objectives and Assessing Requirements

-Creativity and Problem-Solving

-Communication, Negotiation and Co-ordination

-Motivation, Teamwork and Leadership

Background material on project management principles, methodologies and learning techniques support a diverse collection of activities including icebreakers, design exercises, questionnaires and assessments, project plans, brainteasers and enigmas, team challenges, and discussion exercises.

Executive Summary:

As projects continue to grow in scale, cost and complexity, the need for consistent and professional project management techniques for planning, organizing, controlling costs, risk management, managing progress, performance and change has never been greater.

Key Topics Covered:

Introduction

Part One Project Management Principles:

My personal projects

Seven skills - learning objectives

Blueprint for project management

Requirements analysis

Jigsaw puzzle

Course evaluation

Memory game

Part Two Setting Objectives and Assessing Requirements:

Project dossier

Meta plan for project start up

Good and bad objectives

Work breakdown structures

Domino tower

My best shot

Tree structure

Part Three Creativity and Problem Solving:

Left brain/right brain

Ten left-brain teasers

Ten right-brain teasers

Ten enigmas

A whirl through the kitchen

Morphological analysis

Pipe dreams

Practising empathy

Part Four Communication, Negotiation and Coordination:

Office move communications plan

Ten reasons to leave things fuzzy

Five Bayes-type negotiating simulations

Listening hard

'Prose' - project progress meeting

Communicards

Crystal clear instructions

Handling objections

Part Five Motivation, Teamwork and Leadership:

Project leadership skills

Projects and motivation

Excellence in teamwork

Personal styles assessment

Leadership styles assessment

Secondary styles assessment

Core team circles

Team observation

Teamwork charter

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