Course Description
Managers, employees, business owners often don’t know how to find more ways to be time-efficient. However, time management can significantly impact productivity and lead to better business results. Employees that manage their time efficiently are more organized, know how to prioritize, make lists and documents to keep track of their work, avoid distractions, and are always on time.
This Planning and Organising Course will help delegates increase work effectiveness and productivity, achieve greater control of your daily activities, and overcome stress. Furthermore, this course provides details on project management fundamentals across an entire project lifecycle. It provides proven strategies and practical tools for planning, scheduling, executing, and controlling a variety of projects.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Understand The Importance Of Defining Priorities, And How To Apply Different Approaches To The Prioritization Grid.
- Discuss And Evaluate The Interventions That Can Sidetrack And Derail Us Throughout The Day.
- To Develop The Skills For Incorporating Individual Strengths Into A Team Dynamic With Achievement
- Understand The Importance Of The Systematic Setting Of Smart Goals And Achievement Through Completion
- Describe The Roles And Responsibilities
- Define And Develop The Foundations Of A Project Management Plan, Including Project Requirements, Work Breakdown Structure, Schedule, Resources, And Other Cost Estimates
- Describe Project Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, And Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Control The Project By Managing Against The Baseline
- Closeout A Project Effectively
Who Should Attend?
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Executives
- Project Manager
- Anyone Who Is Interested In The Field
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: Defining Time And How To Prioritise
- Defining Time
- What Do We Mean By Time Management?
- Being Able To Recognise What Good And Poor Time Management Is
- How To Prioritise
- Benefit Versus Effort
- Urgent Versus Important
- Why We Need Time Management
- Values And Priorities
- The Prioritisation Grid
Section Two: Time Robbers & Planning Your Work
- Time Robbers Imposed By Others
- Time Robbers Imposed By You
- Benefits Of Planning
- Guidelines And Tools For Efficient Planning
- The Difference Between Planning And Scheduling
- Five Minutes Before The Hour
Section Three: The Four D’s & How To Delegate Effectively
- What Makes The 4 Ds Easy
- Guidelines For Keeping A Piece Of Paper
- Dump, Delay, Delegate And Do
- Using The 4 Ds
- What Is Delegation?
- The Five Levels Of Delegation
- Five Steps To Delegation
- Keeping Responsibility
- When You Cannot Delegate
Section Four: Scheduling And The Baseline
- Network Scheduling
- Validating Schedules
- Arrow Diagrams And Precedence Diagrams
- Basic Scheduling And Network Calculations
- Advanced Precedence Relationships And The Critical Path
- Alternative Constraints
- Gantt And Milestone Charts
- Establishing Baselines
- Understanding Types Of Baselines
- Time-phased Distribution Of Costs
- Cumulative Cost Curves
Section Five: Project Implementation
- Project Control Considerations
- Responsibilities In Project Control
- Tools And Techniques For Project Control
- Project Monitoring Processes
- Managing The Triple Constraint
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Schedule And Cost Variance
- Interpreting Evm Calculations
- Percent Complete And Percent Spent
- Change Control And Change Management
- Configuration Management