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supporting good work, done well.
Short Courses
Immersive, tactical, face-to-face training.
These short courses bring that old-school training room energy with lots of movement, real-time conversation, and intensive collaboration. With short bursts of presentation alternating with practical break-out activities, participants learn best-practice concepts, tools and techniques then immediately apply these skills to a case study or - better yet - a real, work-based project. All courses can be customised to align with your internal project management framework to help participants immediately transfer the learning into the workplace.
“Hail, the mighty post-it note."
Effective project delivery requires consistency in the team's understanding and use of best-practice project management concepts, terms, tools, and techniques.
The courses below cover these essentials.
Project Management Fundamentals
Duration: 1 day
In this course participants learn: • The difference between projects and BAU activities. • The standard phases of a predictive (waterfall) project lifecycle. • Key project management documents and the purpose and timing of each. • How to initiate a project and develop a Project Charter. • How to identify project stakeholders and plan communication & engagement. • How to develop a Project Status Report to communicate progress. • How to close a project and identify lessons learned.
Agile Practices in Projects
Duration: 1 day
In this course participants learn: • What types of work are (and aren't) suited to an Agile development approach. • The Agile manifesto and principles that shape all Agile methodolgies. • An overview of Scrum - the most popular Agile methodology. • Agile terms, roles, rituals, tools and techniques. • How to write user stories to build the product backlog. • Sprint planning using story points or t-shirt sizing. • How to incorporate feedback from stakeholders.
Applied Project Management
Duration: 2 days
In this course participants learn: • Best-practice project management concepts, terms, tools and techniques. • Adaptive (agile) vs. predictive (waterfall) project delivery, and when to use each. • Key project management documents and the purpose and timing of each. • How to initiate a project and develop a Project Charter. • How to run a collaborative scoping workshop by developing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) using post-it notes. • How to develop a network diagram and conduct Critical Path Analysis from first principles, using post-it notes. • How scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project work, and the pitfalls with using them. • How to identify project takeholders and plan communication & engagement. • How to clarify team member roles using a RACI. • How to develop a Project Status Report to communicate progress. • How to close a project and identify lessons learned. • The principles and performance domains in Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK), 7th Edition (2021)
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Best Leadership Development Program (Finalist) - 2023 AITD Training Excellence Awards
Duration: 3 days over 16 weeks
This course involves three deep and transformative layers of learning: 1. Three group workshops, spaced 8 weeks apart, called Inhale (understanding self), Exhale (understanding others), and Reflection (review with senior leaders). 2. Weekly Peer Coaching - structured small-group coaching sessions in which learners coach each other on adaptive leadership challenges. 3. Personal Coaching - an hour with a personal leadership coach following each workshop.