What you’ll learn
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The 11 major pitfalls of project management with downloads.
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Earn 13 PDUs for PMI!
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Application of skills with 7 tools provided as downloads for your leadership, team building, EQ, and PM skills.
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Receive your personal Project Workbook to be downloaded immediately.
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Learn how to apply specific leadership styles to set up and lead your teams to success by avoiding the major pitfalls that plague 75% of all projects.
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Acquire an understanding of emotional and social intelligence so you can reduce stress, feelings of being overwhelmed, and unnecessary conflicts.
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Learn proper delegation for team members based on strengths and core values so you can free yourself from long hours and missed personal time.
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Learn how to plan your day in a way to get more done by doing less.
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Learn a proven system to lead teams, a structured road map to success.
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Learn tested leadership skills to build and inspire peak performing teams.
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Learn how to build a culture receptive to change instead of a reactionary culture consumed by chaos.
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Learn to acquire stakeholder and senior management support at the beginning of your project and maintain it throughout.
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Learn the essentials of project management communication, team management, negotiation, leadership, and the power of influence within PM.
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Learn how to set the right tone for the project from start to finish by setting expectations up front and building confidence in all stakeholders.
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Learn how to navigate conflict and the difference between negative and healthy tension.
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Learn the power of earned value management and how to set up EV even if your company does not have this as a standard practice.
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Learn the best project management practices that are taught by PMI and used on government sectors such as the DOD and DOE.
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Learn how to set up a project in a way that will give you more confidence in its success.
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Learn the power of confidence and why being confident and speaking with intention will propel your career.
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Learn how to tailor your projects development approach based on the needs of the customer.
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Learn how to create the performance measurement baseline so you can track how you perform against your plan.
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Learn how to utilize a rolling wave method to gather information in phases.
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Learn the hybrid approach and how agile and predictive combined is the ultimate advantage in project management.
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Learn how to forecast risk ahead of realization and decrease overruns and schedule delays.
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Learn how to create the organizational breakdown structure (OBS).
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Learn how to establish and create the requirements assessment matrix.
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Learn how to set up work packages and control accounts.
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Learn how to establish management and contingency reserve.
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Learn how to create the scope, schedule, and cost baselines.
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Learn how to create the submittal registry and what can lead to major scope creep if included.
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Learn how to create the work breakdown structure and why it is the single most important white board session you will ever have.
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Learn the top estimating techniques that are taught to by top cooperation’s.
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Learn the language of project management that is used globally.
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Learn how to analyze and perform a make or buy decision.
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Learn how to be confident, structure, and succeed with meetings and build plans.
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Learn the how to manage, coach, and set up teams.
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Learn how to prepare the project plan, brief management, provide options, stay truthful, and protect your career.
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Track the budget and manage its key drivers to obtain the best cost performance possible.
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Identify the risks up front, mitigate them early, and manage your project to stay within the risk budget.
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The two most effective things you can do to manage quality, and ensure the customer is happy with the project result.
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Use earned value management (EVM) to objectively estimate future cost and schedule performance.
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Ask stakeholders for guidance when your project is in trouble in the most productive and constructive way.
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Learn earned value management and PMI project management methodologies with real world application and lessons learned.
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Apply what you have learned immediately with a quiz at the end of each module.
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Facebook group included for interaction with other students and questions.