Project Management Workshop

In the past few decades, organizations have discovered something incredible: the principles that have been used to create enormous successes in large projects can be applied to projects of any size to create amazing success. As a result, many employees are expected to understand project management techniques and how to apply them to projects of any size.

The Project Management workshop will give participants an overview of the entire project management process, as well as key project management tools that they can use every day. Working with project planning documents, such as needs assessments, risk management plan, and a communication plan will provide benefits throughout organization.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define projects, project management, and project managers
• Identify the five process groups and nine knowledge areas as defined by the PMI
• Describe the triple constraint
• Perform a project needs assessment and write goals, requirements, and deliverables
• Create key project documents.
• Build a project schedule by estimating time, costs, and resources
• Understand and use the work breakdown structure
• Create project planning documents, such as a schedule, risk management plan, and communication plan
• Use planning tools, including the Gantt chart, network diagram, and RACI chart
• Establish and use baselines
• Monitor and maintain the project
• Perform basic management tasks, including leading status meetings and ensuring all documents are complete at the end of the project

Performance Management Workshop

Performance Management is making sure the employee and the organization are focused on the same priorities. It touches on the organization itself by improving production and reducing waste. It helps the employee or individual set and meet their goals and improves the employee manager relationship. The key in keeping an organization and employee aligned, which improves performance and productivity, is Performance Management.

When changes occur Performance Management helps the transition to be smoother and less hectic. It helps the organization and employee have a stream-lined relationship which improves communication and interactions between the two groups. It will help close any gaps that exist in an employee’s skill-set and make them a more valuable employee through feedback and coaching.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define performance management.
• Understand how performance management works and the tools to make it work.
• Learn the three phases of project management and how to assess it.
• Discuss effective goal-setting.
• Learn how to give feedback on performance management.
• Identify Kolb’s Learning Cycle.
• Recognize the importance of motivation.
• Develop a performance journal and performance plan.

Office Politics for Managers Workshop

You have likely experienced some form of Office Politics. Working with different personalities, opinions, backgrounds, and values is a challenge in any environment. It is an inevitable fact that when people are working together personalities can and will clash. No one is an island, so working together as a team is incredibly important for the organization and every employee.

Office Politics it is about creating and maintaining better relationships. It is about communicating and working with your peers and colleagues in a way that is mutually beneficial. Employees who understand the positive aspects of Office Politics are better team members and end up being more successful and productive.

Workshop Objectives:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of office politics.
• Setting boundaries and ground rules for new employees.
• Learn to interact and influence among colleagues.
• Learn how to manage various personality types in the office.
• Determine how to gain support and effectively network.
• Recognize how you are a part of a group and how you function.

The Power of Networking (Within the Company)

Networking has become a crucial part of the world today. Most people are aware of external networking and primarily focus on that. It is important to pay extra attention to internal networking, or networking within the company. To be truly effective, internal networking must be utilized throughout the company.
With The Power of Networking (Within the Company) workshop participants will learn how internal networking is changing the workforce. Through this workshop, participants will gain a new perspective networking, and what benefits can come from fully utilizing and making connections with internal networking.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define networking
• Understand networking principles
• Use networking tools
• Avoid common mistakes
• Understand how to build relationships
• Manage time successfully

Middle Manager Workshop

Traditionally, middle managers make up the largest managerial layer in an organization. The Middle Manager is responsible to those above them and those below them. They head a variety of departments and projects. In order for a company to operate smoothly, it is essential that those in middle management be committed to the goals of the organization and understands how to effectively execute these goals.

It is crucial for businesses to focus on these essential managers and provide them with the opportunities to succeed. No matter the organization’s structure or size, it will benefit from employing well-trained middle managers. Having a middle manager understand their role in the organization is very important. They are in communication with a very large percentage of the company, and will have a large impact throughout the organization.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define management.
• Understand ethics in the workplace.
• Manage information and make decisions.
• Be familiar with the control process.
• Use organizational strategies to facilitate change.
• Create structures and processes to manage teams.
• Manage as a leader.

Manager Management Workshop

With this course you will be able to provide the skills, guidance, and empowerment to your team of managers. They will then be better suited in leading and motivating their team and thus produce fantastic results. To be a successful manager means having a wide range of skills. Through this workshop you will be able to disperse your knowledge and experience throughout your leadership team.

Manager Management takes a special type of leader. This workshop will expand participant’s knowledge and provide a way for them to teach and lead new and experienced managers. As every manager knows that learning never stops, this workshop will have something for everyone.

Workshop Objectives:

• Welcome and orientate new managers
• Learn ways to successfully coach and mentor
• Learn ways to measure and evaluate performance
• How to handle complications
• Communicate between employees and their managers

Lean Process And Six Sigma Workshop

Six Sigma is a data-driven approach for eliminating defects and waste in any business process. You can compare Six Sigma with turning your water faucet and experiencing the flow of clean, clear water. Reliable systems are in place to purify, treat, and pressure the water through the faucet. That is what Six Sigma does to business: it treats the processes in business so that they deliver their intended result.

Our Lean Process And Six Sigma workshop will provide an introduction to this way of thinking that has changed so many corporations in the world. This workshop will give participants an overview of the Six Sigma methodology, and some of the tools required to deploy Six Sigma in their own organizations.

Workshop Objectives:

• Develop a 360 degree view of Six Sigma and how it can be implemented in any organization.
• Identify the fundamentals of lean manufacturing, lean enterprise, and lean principles.
• Describe the key dimensions of quality – product features and freedom from deficiencies
• Develop attributes and value according to the Kano Model
• Understand how products and services that have the right features and are free from deficiencies can promote customer satisfaction and attract and retain new customers.
• Describe what is required to regulate a process
• Give examples of how poor quality affects operating expenses in the areas of appraisal, inspection costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs
• Using basic techniques such as DMAIC and how to identify Six Sigma Projects
• Use specific criteria to evaluate a project
• Discover root causes of a problem

High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce ) Workshop

High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) are organizations, teams or groups working in a virtual environment that are focused on achieving the same goals. Bringing team members together through a virtual environment can be a challenge task. This workshop identifies these challenges and helps participants push through to success.

With our High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) workshop, participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high performance skills, while working remotely. By knowing and managing the way people interact in a remote environment, you will be setting up your high performance teams to accomplish any task.

Workshop Objectives:

• Define high performance teams.
• Define remote workforce.
• Understand the characteristics of a high performance team.
• Understand how to create teamwork.
• Understand the importance of communication.
• Understand how to train your high performance team of remote employees.
• Learn how to manage a high performance team.
• Learn the techniques of an effective team meeting.