Project Management
In conversations with our clients, we weight the challenges in the five competence fields and from these develop a well-rounded curriculum:
Competence Field 1: Knowledge of Change
Projects always involve the kicking-off and accompanying of changes. That is why the company’s own know-how should be reflected and brought right up to date.
- change model of hauserconsulting (five key questions for changes)
- phases of change and management styles
- tasks as change manager
- dealing with resistance
Competence Field 2: Tools for Project Management
The fundamental aids are of fundamental importance for efficient project management. Many of them are well known, some may only be being used by individuals. More than being a case of training in the use of the tools, it is more a question of using the experiences of the participants with the tools and stimulating an intensive exchange of experiences.
- determination of aims and making of agreements
- phases and life cycle of a project
- methods and instruments (such as situations and risk analysis, prognosis, planning and monitoring and project controlling)
- use of common office tools in the project planning (Outlook and Excel)
- documentation of projects
- principles of project organisation
Competence Field 3: Communication in Projects
Project managers face particular challenges as communicators. Projects need to be externally portrayed, internally communicated, and bindingly accompanied.
Conflicts are not emergencies in projects, but they are a normal part of the life of a complex project.
- dealing with different types of people and roles in project teams
- conflict management in projects
- project marketing
- presentation and moderation
Competence Field 4: Politics and Power
In order to be able to guide projects amidst the daily routine of large organisations really successfully, project managers should know about the different phenomena relating to decision-making processes. Building on this knowledge, it is then a case of using these phenomena actively.
- fundamentals of systemic thinking and the rules of power
- fighting techniques of modern management
and coordination processes with the line functions - use of social networks: relationship management as a task of project managers (coalitions and alliances)
Competence Field 5: Transfer
Project managers do not prove themselves in theory, but instead only in practical action: how efficiently do they guide their projects? To what extent are goals achieved? How motivated are the employees?
For this field of competence, we recommend:
- supervision days for joint exchange of experience
and the working-out of alternative actions - Dialogue events with the people in the concern who guide projects
extensively, for the discussion of general problems in projects