Project Management
- Project Management Overview
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management. |
- Understanting the Project Manager's Role
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course explains the role of the project manager and the traits and abilities he or she must have to be effective. |
- Defining the Problem
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course describes the importance of specifically narrowing down the problem statement. In addition, it explains the detrimental impact that bypassing this step has. It also distinguishes between different types of problems and possible methods for identifying them. Finally, it describes the Project Charter and how to create it. |
- Determining the Strategy
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course defines strategy, describes methods to generate and rank a strategies list, and explains the importance of risk and contingency planning. |
- Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course describes how to create and organize project tasks by developing the work breakdown structure and a network diagram. |
- Estimating and Scheduling Resources
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course explains estimating and scheduling concepts, provides guidelines for estimating and scheduling, and describes the advantage of project management tools such as Microsoft Project. |
- Understanding Scheduling Computations
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description:
This course explains how to perform forward and backward computations to determine the critical path in a project network diagram and shows how an activity-on-node network diagram can be changed to make an activity-on-arrow diagram and a bar chart. |
- Tracking Project Activities
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course describes the control phase of a project and provides guidelines on how to effectively control a project. |
- Closing Out the Project
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course explains the close-out phase of a project and describes the activities that must be performed during this phase. |
- Formalizing Project Management Standards
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course provides an overview on the nature of projects as well as project management. |
- Developing Project Teams
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course describes project team dynamics and provides guidelines on how to effectively build a project team. |
- Ensuring Your Own Effectiveness
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course gives tips on how to be a more effective project manager. |
Effective Business Communication
- The Planning Worksheet
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
After taking this course, the learner will be able to use a Planning Worksheet to analyze the needs and restrictions of a writing task. |
- Writing Skills
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course will help you improve your business writing skills by choosing appropriate words, building effective sentences, and identifying and correcting common sentence faults. |
- Patterns of Development
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
After taking this course, you will be able to organize business writing into specific patterns, depending on the type of information you want to communicate. |
- Letters
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
The course discusses standard letter parts and letter formats. This course talks about planning a correspondence, and the words, sentences, and paragraphs used when creating an effective letter. It also discusses the block and modified letter formats and how they differ. Finally, this course presents how to write letters that convey neutral or positive news, as well as how to write negative news letters with tact and courtesy. |
- Memos, E-Mail and Other Communications
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course discusses memos, proposals, press releases, e-mails, and faxes. |
- Reports
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
After taking this course, you will be familiar with the general characteristics and acceptable formats of formal, informational, analytical, and persuasive reports. |
- Documentation
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description:
In this course, you will learn how to write clear, concise documentation. You will be able to effectively plan your documentation project and decide what information to include. This course also discusses the proper parts of a document, the editing process, and the preparation of your document for production and distribution. |
Fundamentals of Business Management
- Management in Perspective
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
After taking this course, learners will be able to evaluate their current performance as managers and utilize the skills, techniques, and theories reviewed in the course to improve their productivity. Learners will also be able to formulate plans of action to acquire additional skills needed to advance in the field of business management. |
- Functions of Front-Line Management
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description:
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the skills and duties of front-line management. The course explores the role of supervisor through best practices, expert suggestions, and practical tips that help build and maintain productive working relationships. |
- Managerial Finance and Accounting
| | Expected Duration: | 5 hours | Description:
This course provides an introduction to the language of finance. After taking this course, the learner wii be able to interpret financial reports and ask intelligent questions about financial matters. |
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Project Management from a People Perspective
- Working Across Departments
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course provides information on how to work with diverse project teams that are drawn from multiple departments. It shows you how to examine the behavioral context of your project and the impact of the corporate structure on the project team. |
- Building and Leading a Team
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course provides information on how to apply appropriate interpersonal skills as you go about building and leading a project team. |
- Managing Project Stakeholders
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course provides information on how to work with project stakeholders, which includes all the people who are involved with or affected by a project. |
Project Management Professional Certification 2005
Certifications covered: PMBOK
The Project Management Body Of Knowledge, preparatory materials for the Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional certification.
- Project Management Framework and Initiatives
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course introduces the learner to project management. It provides an overview of the Initiating Process Group with a focus on passing the PMP exam. |
- Project Planning Processes
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description:
This course introduces the learner to the development and maintenance of a project management plan. It provides an overview of the Planning Process Group with a focus on passing the PMP exam. |
- Project Execution and Quality Management
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course focuses on the fact that the majority of the project management processes do not execute only once during the course of a project, but rather they take place at multiple times as the project evolves through its lifecycle. It provides an overview of the Executing Process Group with a focus on passing the PMP exam. |
- Project Monitoring and Control
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course provides an introduction to project monitoring and control and contract administration in the context of project management. |
- Project Closing
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course provides the learner with information about the activities associated with closing a project and a contract. |
- Professional Responsibility
| | Expected Duration: | 1 hour | Description:
This course focuses on the PMP Code of Professional Conduct and how to handle conflicts of interest. |
- Practice Exams
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
After taking this course, the learner will know how to complete the application process and be prepared to take the PMP certification exam. |
Time Management Fundamentals
- Evaluating and Improving Time Managment
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course helps learners evaluate how they’re currently spending their time in the office. This benefits learners by helping them establish the fundamentals of their time management plan. |
- Organizing Tasks and Creating Uniterrupted Time
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course helps learners organize their tasks and prioritize their goals. This benefits learners by helping them establish the fundamentals of their time management plan. |
- Managing Meetings
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course shows learners how to control the length and effectiveness of meetings. This helps the learner work with co-workers, superiors, and subordinates more efficiently and effectively. |
- Managing Workload
| | Expected Duration: | 3 hours | Description:
This course shows learners how to handle communications and correspondence as well as how to avoid procrastination. This benefits the learner by providing concrete examples of good time management practices that are applicable to the learner’s work. |
- Managing Time with Co-Workers
| | Expected Duration: | 2 hours | Description:
This course helps learners develop communication skills. This benefits learners by helping them make the most of their interactions with colleagues, subordinates, and supervisors. |
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