Course overview
This two-day Project management course in London looks at every aspect of managing a project. Working on your own case study, you will learn and apply the many tools and techniques involved. It will help you get more structure into your management of projects.
The centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.
What you'll learn
By the end of the Project management course, you will be able to plan your project effectively, estimate time factors accurately and detail the work of different projects efficiently.
You will recognise the different stakeholders involved in your projects and be able to devise strategies for each of them.
You will have a useful tool for risk analysis which you can apply to a wide range of situations and you will be able to cost the different elements of your project accurately and monitor your project budget.
Study method
- In-class
- Online
- Blended
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Duration study load
- 2 days
Pathways
- Moving into management
- Finance skills for non financial managers
Who's it for?
This Project management training is aimed at those with only a little experience in project management who want to learn the basic skills and get some tips and techniques for introducing the disciplines of project management.
It would also be very useful for those who have some experience of small projects and want to further develop their skills.
We also offer bespoke group training for 3-12 individuals from one organisation. If you would like to explore this option, please get in touch for a quote.
Subjects
This Project management course deals with the technical aspects of project management, including planning and estimating time, budgeting and costing, and risk analysis. We also explore the ‘people’ skills involved: communicating with project teams, stakeholders and project champions.
- analyse the key issues for your project
- draw up effective terms of reference for a project
- clarify your project’s aims, objectives and success factors
- understand the stages of a project including mapping the project and the project tasks
- grouping the project’s tasks into meaningful categories
- understanding and working with critical time points
- using a Gantt Chart showing the project tasks, their timescales, how these are linked and related and what is the resulting critical time-line
- constructing a critical time line
- constructing a project budget outlining the main elements, and how each might be estimated and taking into account all project costs, support costs and overheads which meet the requirements of project stakeholders and funders
- describing how income will be derived from the project, if appropriate and over what timescale
- constructing a simple cash flow forecast for the project
- reading a project’s management accounts
- keeping to budget
- constructing a project team
- understanding and overcoming the barriers to building a high-performance team
- using the Belbin team types as a useful tool in developing your project team
- understanding and using the ‘team lifecycle’
- communicating with your team and the rest of the organisation
- dealing with conflict in the team
- understanding who your stakeholders are and what influence and interest they have in the project
- communicating with stakeholders
- influencing stakeholders
About Itec Skills and Employment
Itec has been a leading provider of work-based learning programmes for 40 years. As part of the ongoing strategy to place our people at the centre of the business and preserve the company as an independent organisation, Itec Training Solutions Holdings Limited became an employee-owned company in February 2019. We are proud to be the first Welsh independent training provider to become employee-owned, with 100% of the business now owned by our employee-owners.
We are one of the largest and most vocationally diverse work-based learning providers. In Wales holding Welsh Government contracts to deliver Apprenticeships and Jobs Growth Wales Plus (JGW+). In England we hold ESFA contracts to deliver Apprenticeships.
In 2014, we acquired The Centre for Strategy and Communication to support the strategic goal to diversify the business, offering commercial training to individuals and employers throughout the UK and worldwide. In 2021 we merged our Company’s (Itec Training Solutions Limited and Centre for Strategy and Communication), this merger was to enable the business to align and strengthen our brand.
Every day we transform people’s lives by helping them believe in themselves, become more motivated, helping them find employment, progress their careers, acquire new qualifications and skills, or set up in business. We support high-growth organisations to innovate and grow. Helping organisations in the private, public, and charity sectors to support priority and high-growth sectors to achieve their outcomes.
Our ethos is simple. We help individuals start and progress their careers by matching their skills with those of local employers. We ensure our programmes are meaningful, effective, valued, and sustainable to both individuals and employers.
