Advanced Project Management: Cases and Coaching

Abstract

The course is designed for people with 3-5 years project management experience as project leader/sub-project manager. Based on participants case studies the course focuses critical success factors in project management. Using an interactive coaching and consulting approach participants will learn to identify and to analyse challenging situations 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 options for action / tailor-made project management measures and to assess its impact. 5. To apply a structured process of collegial coaching. 6. To transfer project management experience to other industries and project types

Content

Vague project objectives, moving and ambiguous targets, diverging requirements of stakeholders, agile organisational contexts 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. In addition, during project execution, many problems arise that are very challenging for the project managers to deal with. The course focuses on challenging project management situations of participants actual projects. All project types are welcome. 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, options for actions are identified 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. The course is led by two to three project and management experts with many years of practical experience from industry, academia and consulting.

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