Business Management Skills |
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Math Skills for the Workplace
Course Duration:
6
1/2 days for 18 hours
Maximum Class
Size:
12
Description of
Target Population:
All Staff
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Use basic math skills in the performance of the job duties.
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Know how to solve
problems using prime factorization, operations
with rational numbers, operations with integers, equations,
properties of real numbers and basic statistics.
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How to use these as tools in everyday work.
Math Skills for the Workplace |
Introduction to Project Management
Course Duration:
2 days – 12 hours
Maximum Class
Size:
12 with a minimum of 6
Description of
Target Population:
Project managers, team
members, service industry professionals, information
technology professionals, production engineers, staff
members and other managers who affect project success
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Use
standard software to facilitate project planning and
tracking.
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Create and
edit Gantt Charts.
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Work with
critical path, WBS and standard reports.
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Estimate
project cost, schedule and resource allocation.
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Optimizing
schedule, scope and resources.
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Managing
multiple projects.
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Examining
resource allocations over time.
Introduction to Project Management |
Microsoft Project Standard
2003 Workshop
Course Duration:
2 days – 12 hours
Maximum Class Size:
12 with a minimum of 6
Description of Target
Population:
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Use standard software to facilitate project planning and
tracking.
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Create and edit Gantt Charts.
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Work with critical path, WBS and standard reports.
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Estimate project cost, schedule and resource allocation.
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Optimizing schedule, scope and resources.
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Managing multiple projects.
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Examining resource
allocations over time.
Microsoft Project Standard
2003 Workshop |
Project Management
Certificate Program
Course Duration:
35 hours or 5 days
Maximum Class Size:
24 with a minimum of 8
Description of Target
Population:
Project managers who wish to become a PMP through PMI and must have a minimum of
35 contact hours of project management education. Staff managers, service
professionals, finance managers, sales and customer service representatives,
human resource professionals, IT professionals, Project managers and project
team members.
Program Results
Participants
will be able to:
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Use
templates to quickly and effectively document a project.
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Create
deliverables that meet the expectations of stakeholders.
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Complete a
project according to project parameters.
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Work
effectively with sponsors and project team members using communications and
interpersonal skills and techniques.
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Prepare a
Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram that effectively defines the
project.
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Anticipate
and respond effectively at each phase of the project to the information
needs of sponsors, senior management and stakeholders.
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Determine
the critical path, calculate slack, resolve over-allocated resources and
accelerate schedules.
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In a
Microsoft Project Standard 2003 computer lab, create and edit a Gantt Chart,
work with tasks and resources, optimize costs and schedule, and produce
reports.
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Understand
the concerns of senior managers as related to quality, costing and managing
multiple projects.
Project Management
Certificate Program |
Project Risk
Management
Course Duration:
1 day – 6 hours
Maximum Class Size:
24 with a minimum of 8
Description of Target
Population: Project managers, team members,
service industry professionals, information technology professionals, production
engineers, staff members and other managers who affect project success and have
familiarity with project management concepts and a standard approach (PMBOK) to
project management processes, Microsoft Windows ’98 environment (Word, and
Excel)
Program Results
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Participants will be able
to:
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Define risk
as it applies to project management.
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Apply two
process models for identifying, qualifying, quantifying, preparing risk
response, and risk control.
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Understand
Expected Monetary Value, Failure Mode Effects Analysis, use of Monte Carlo
Simulations, Decision Trees, and Wideband Delphi Estimation techniques.
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Able to
define four types of risk response techniques.
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Understand
how to set risk triggers.
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Understand
the link between project risk management and Six Sigma.
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Integrate
risk management tasks into a project.
Project Risk
Management |
Smart Project Management
Course Duration:
2 days – 12 hours
Maximum Class Size:
24 with a minimum of 6
Description of Target
Population:
Project managers, team
members, service industry professionals, information
technology professionals, production engineers, staff
members and other managers who affect project success
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Describe a
project in terms of its phases and parameters.
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Calculate
cash flow using Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return.
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Define a
project in terms of Project Overview, deliverables, resources requirements
and parameters.
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Define the
roles and responsibilities of positions related to the effective
communication and management of projects: sr. management, sponsor, project
manager, project team member, and stakeholder.
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Understand
the allocation of scarce resources.
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Describe a
project in terms of Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram.
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Understand
and apply the Critical Path Method.
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Apply
standard procurement techniques.
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Apply risk
management techniques.
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Track and
manage a project during implementation using variance analysis, control
charts, dash-boards.
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Set project
baselines for schedule, scope and resources.
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Learn
techniques for optimizing the project and collecting project status.
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Close a
project out a project and create historic records for future use.
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Document
projects.
Smart Project Management |
Hardball Planning and
Budgeting
Course Duration:
2 days – 12 hours
Maximum Class Size:
24 with a minimum of 6
Description of Target
Population:
Cost center managers and
supervisors who will be held accountable for planning,
budgeting and managing day-to-day expenses predictably.
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Understand
planning models: Strategic Planning, Operational Planning and budgeting.
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Use the
planning format to create, discuss and present their ideas to senior
managers.
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Prepare an
operating plan to guide their department’s activities.
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Translate
their operating plan into an operating budget for their resources and assets.
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Track and
monitor their expenses on a monthly basis.
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Understand
financial roles and responsibilities.
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Provide a
framework for decision making.
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Forecast
year-end-actuals.
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Respond
effectively to monthly variance reports.
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Set a
baseline for future discussions and learning about fiscal responsibilities.
Hardball Planning and
Budgeting |
Multiple Project
Management
Course Duration:
1 day – 6 hours
Maximum Class Size:
24 with a minimum of 6
Description of Target
Population:
Senior managers who
authorize projects and commit company resources and project
managers.
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Use project
software to create resource pools and to “stack” multiple projects on one
Gantt chart for examination.
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Determine
over-allocations across the portfolio.
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Determine
the point at which critical projects may be delayed.
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Deal with
the resulting effects of over-allocation of resources, schedule delays or
cost over-runs, negative impact on revenue, reduced customer satisfaction or
quality.
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Allocate
scarce resources and match workload to organizational capacity.
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Assess
the value of individual and portfolio project and maximize the return on
investment.
Multiple Project
Management |
Project Management
Executive Overview
Course Duration:
4 hours
Maximum Class Size:
15 with a minimum of 6
Description of Target
Population:
Executive managers who
participate in decisions that impact strategic initiatives
and operational planning
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Understand
the basics of project management terminology and concepts.
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Understand how to
integrate strategic and operational planning process with the management of
projects.
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Understand
the necessity to estimate project return on investment.
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Understand
their current and planned Competency Maturity Model levels.
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Create an
environment for the successful management of projects.
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Understand
the roles and responsibilities of sr. managers, sponsors, project managers,
team members and stakeholders.
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Understand
the critical nature of senior managers and project teams working together to
reach the expected results, project ROI and strategic goals.
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Create
requirements for project reporting.
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Understand portfolio management and resource allocation.
Project Management
Executive Overview |
Integrated Project
Management
Course Duration:
3 days – 18 hours
Maximum Class Size:
24 with a minimum
of 8
Description of Target
Population:
Project and HR managers
who authorize projects and commit company resources and
project managers.
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Integrate
“soft skills” involved with team management, interpersonal and communication
with basic project management techniques needed to manage a project.
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Learn to
manage a project in a normal corporate business context.
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Learn “best
practices” for tollgate reviews - critical business conversations up, down
and across the organization.
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Learn
project management process and concepts and be able to describe a project in
terms of its phases and parameters.
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Define a
project in terms of Project Overview, deliverables, resources requirements
and parameters.
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Learn the
roles and responsibilities of positions related to the effective
communication and management of projects.
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Understand
the allocation of scarce resources.
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Describe a
project in terms of Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram.
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Understand
and apply the Critical Path Method.
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Apply risk
management techniques.
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Learn to
track and manage a project during implementation.
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Set project
baselines for schedule, scope and resources.
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Participate in role play discussions to learn techniques for collecting
project status.
Integrated Project
Management |
Project Procurement
Management |
Help Me Help You!
How to
Proactively Educate Your Business Stakeholders for Greater Project Success
Course Duration:
1 day - 6 hrs
Maximum Class Size:
30
Description of Target
Population:
Project Managers, Program Managers, Business Analysts, IT
Directors/Managers, Functional Business Managers
Program Results
Participants will be
able to:
As an IT Project
Manager or Business Analyst are your projects plagued by problems such as
unresponsive business stakeholders, unclear expectations, pointing fingers,
missed deadlines? Do project critical business decisions seem to take
forever? These common issues can cause high stress and frustration,
repeated mistakes, wasted time and rework. Do your stakeholders then wonder
why “IT didn’t get it right”?
Business stakeholders
sometimes see IT work as the “black box”, the unknown. Coupled with their
own work demands, there can be a tendency to hang back and think “IT will
make it happen”. Whether you’re a PM or BA, there are ways to increase the
level of business engagement and ownership on your projects.
Learn how to
proactively design more successful outcomes, while building credibility and
enhancing relationships with your business community. Gain tips on how to
educate them about working with IT teams in partnership to create a more
positive overall project experience.
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Improve project
success through proactively educating business stakeholders on how to work
effectively with IT.
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Enhance your
relationship and credibility with stakeholders for immediate and longer term
project success.
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Learn to minimize
stress, miscommunications, missed deadlines, and rework, while clearly
setting expectations and accountability.
Help Me Help You! |
Sustainable
Business Advantage
Course Duration:
(2) 7 hour days with 45 minute lunch
Maximum Class Size:
20
Description of Target
Population:
Executives, Managers, PMs, team members who want to gain valuable
knowledge, skills, tools and techniques in order to successfully incorporate
sustainability into their organization's strategic planning.
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Discuss the
strategic advantages of sustainability.
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Apply a systems
approach to sustainability.
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Utilize the
Natural Step Framework.
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Explain the
science underlying the Framework.
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Use the framework
for strategic planning.
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Incorporate the
step by step process within your own methodology.
Sustainable Business Advantage |
Introduction to
Green IT
Course Duration:
Two
7 hour days with 45 minute lunch
Maximum Class Size:
20
Description of Target
Population:
CIOs,
Managers, PMs, team members who want to understand Green IT in order to
impact IT strategies and realize cost savings.
Program Results
Participants will be able to:
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Understand Green
IT Terminology
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List Green IT
Standards
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Identify Green IT
Cost Saving Opportunities
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Assess your IT
footprint
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Implement a Green
IT Plan
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Present Green IT
initiatives
Every organization
with a data center has enormous opportunity to realize cost savings and
increased efficiency. IT energy consumption can represent from 10% to 50% of
an organization’s energy use.
Understanding and
embracing Green IT practices will translate into real savings. This two day
fast paced course will show you how to begin to achieve both cost saving and
environmental sustainability goals.
Introduction to Green IT |
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