Project Management
Project management was and is a necessary core competence
Increasing complexity, especially in change and transformation projects, and the rapid pace of technological change bring challenges that require project management know-how.
In our practice-oriented seminars, you will learn the necessary tools for controlling and leading projects You will gain insight into tried-and-tested methods and procedures and can exchange practical experience with other participants. We will introduce you to new approaches that complement existing project management by, for example, the aspects of “holistic” and also “hybrid” project management.
PM is for us the mixture of PeopleManagement and ProjectManagement
All projects are unique and require skills that differ significantly from those that day-to-day business demands of a manager. Efficient and successful project management involves the “human interface” to a large extent.
Important competencies in projects are:
- high conflict resolution and decision-making skills
- good leadership skills and knowledge of human nature, in order to lead successfully even without a technical supervisor function
- to assemble and develop teams correctly
- good communication across all channels and stakeholders (towards client and customer, steering committee, stakeholders, team members, etc.)
- High level of facilitation skills for kick-off workshops, milestone meetings and strategy sessions, etc.
The best standards, the most innovative environment do not bring the desired success if employees do not have the appropriate know-how. Participants learn this in the practice-oriented ML-spectrum trainings.
Our trainings for efficient project management
Project Management Basics
You will learn what makes a project special and how to prepare, plan, execute and complete your project.
Typical problems and pitfalls of everyday project work and possible solutions are discussed. You will be sensitized for the various tasks in projects and with this knowledge you will be able to better master your project tasks and thus actively contribute to the success of the project.
- Know a common wording for specific terms in everyday project work
- Get an overview of the individual phases of a project
- The preparation of a project
- Planning a project
- Structuring a project with milestones
- The project structure plan as a basis for allocating tasks
- Fixing deadlines and calculating costs
- Carry out and finish a project
- Recognizing and correcting deviations
- Report and document
- Learning from what has been done
Leading virtual project teams
Modern media have revolutionized the world of work. As a result, new forms of collaboration have emerged worldwide – especially in the management of projects. From a technical point of view, it hardly matters whether the colleague has his workplace at the location or whether overseas collaboration is part of the daily project routine.
What works well in conventional teams cannot be transferred 1:1 to virtual teams. Project managers as well as project team members are therefore challenged to build up a variety of competencies in order to lead projects of virtual project teams to success.
The participants recognize where the opportunities and risks of virtual collaboration lie. It will be shown which aspects the participants should pay special attention to when leading a virtual team.
- Virtual project teams versus face-to-face teams
- Staffing virtual project teams
- Leading project teams at a distance
- Communication and the use of media
- Daily Business
- Working culture in virtual project teams
Project success through professional project marketing
Today, more than ever, the success of projects depends not only on good project planning and management. Interdisciplinary project teams, complex stakeholder structures and diverse target group requirements on the customer, partner and supplier side influence the acceptance and sustainable success of projects At the same time, budget and resource margins are getting tighter and project managers are fighting resistance and rejection. Therefore, target group-specific communication and marketing of the project are all the more important and yet often neglected.
With professional project marketing, project managers can strategically secure their project success as well as positively influence the execution and progress of the project.
- Project marketing process as part of the project management process
- Analysis - project environment and target group analysis
- Planning - strategic and operational project communication
- Implementation - communication channels and media mix in different project phases
- Monitoring - controlling and target group feedback
- The intranet as a company-specific project marketing tool
- Pitfalls in project marketing