Understanding Project Management

Objectives of the one day course:

• To realise that most management tasks are projects and require to be treated as such

• To learn a systematic approach to planning and controlling projects

• To realize the importance of clearly defined success criteria and agreed constraints at the start of a project

• To discover that CPA, Gantt charts and other project techniques are easy to do and useful to apply

• To understand that financial monitoring also requires progress monitoring – under budget could mean you’re behind schedule • To instill a belief that even small projects are worth managing professionally

• To know what to ask a project manager in order to assess whether their planning and control methods are up to standard

• To see where the official gateways and templates fit in to the process of planning and controlling projects effectively.

Chris Croft is one of the UK’s leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 87,000 people and enjoys a 94% rate of repeat business.

Chris is also a successful author, with his first book ‘Time Management’ was published in 1996 to wide acclaim and has since been followed by fourteen others . His tip of the month email goes out regularly to over 10,000 people. Recently he has also been making videos – there are more than 80 on his YouTube channel which has 2000 subscribers and half a million views, and he is featured on www.lynda.com , the world’s largest and probably best management training video site. He has also created his own on-line project management course .

How to book

This Workshop is being significantly subsidised by the IIB, bringing the cost down to only £40 per person. To register your place, please email robin.giles.cii@googlemail.com with your name and CII pin number as soon as possible.

If you have any special requirements e.g. regarding diet, access, hearing etc., please let us know when booking your place.

A certificate of attendance is available, if requested at the time of booking. These will be mailed to participants after the event.