Advanced Project Management: Cases and Coaching

Abstract

The course is designed for persons with 3 to 5 years project management experience. Based on participants case studies the course focuses critical success factors in project management. Using a coaching and consulting approach participants will learn to identify and to analyse challenging situations in projects and to jointly develop adequate solutions.

Objective

After completing this course participants are enabled: 1. To identify and describe critical situations in complex Projects. 2. To analyse critical situations in projects within its systemic context. 3. To formulate clear objectives for the solutions and decision making. 4. To develop tailor-made project management measures and to assess its impact. 5. To apply a structured process of collegial coaching.

Content

Vague project objectives, moving and ambiguous targets, diverging requirements of stakeholders as well as the dynamics of technological changes increase the complexity in project work considerably. As a result project management becomes more and more demanding. The course focuses on challenging project management situations participants actual projects. Based on current case studies, the identification and description of critical project situations will be discussed. In a structured consulting process participants analyse the situations in their systemic context and reflect on interactions and interrelations. Developing hypothesis and using specific question techniques, causes and effects are explored and individual problem-solving measures are worked out. Each participant has the opportunity to work on a current case together with experts in a one-and-a-half-hour counselling session, which provides an additional benefit for personal project work.

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