How to Commence and Successfully Manage Small Projects

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Why this Course is Important

“Explore the big picture of project management and learn how to run a small project or be part of a project team.”

Managing and working on short projects represent much of the work that’s done in many teams across Australia today. Yet, according to a study by PWC, in the past decade, fewer than 3% of organisations completed all their projects on time, on a budget, or to the project’s original specifications.

Learning to manage small projects well and knowing how to contribute to a project team not only benefits the project but it also benefits you. Managing a small project and project team will boost your confidence, and you’ll also gain the skills to navigate many of the complexities of understanding project management.

How to Commence and Successfully Manage Small Projects (M) is a perfect introduction to help you discover more about project management and how to put together a project team and work with your project sponsor. Don’t just guess how to manage a project. Learn key project Management concepts in this practical and hands-on training session.

Course Objectives

Successful completion of this course will increase your ability to:

Understand the difference between project management and task management.
Know how to manage the four stages of a typical project.
Realise all of the small, yet important facets that makes any small project succeed.
Initiate and define your next project.
Work with a project team, whether they are from within your team or outside your organisation.
Move a small project forward.
Work around project problems.
Bring a project to a close and evaluate its success.

What You Will Learn

Identifying the project outcome and how it can best be achieved.
What are a project manager’s roles and responsibilities?
The project management life cycle.
Planning a project.
Identifying stakeholders and selecting the right people for the project team.
Translating projects tasks and activities into S.M.A.R.T sub-tasks.
Creating a project schedule that includes timelines, milestones and responsibilities.
Initiating your project.
Monitoring and controlling your project.
Closing off your project.

Personalised Certificate for Completion

At the end of each training session, participants will be asked to complete a short assessment based on the course covered and receive a personalised downloadable certificate.

Professionally Designed Workbook Included

Your course comes with a professionally-designed downloadable workbook. The workbook will allow you to add information gained during the training, as well as add your own thoughts and observations. The last page of the workbook contains a personal action plan to help you implement the key lessons from this training session.

BONUS: For managers, team leaders, and supervisors attending this training, you will also receive a bonus coaching question sheet. This is the perfect tool for having powerful coaching conversations with individuals or your entire team about this topic.

Paul Puckridge

For the past 26 years, Paul Puckridge has been the training director and head instructional designer at The Success Institute. Over nearly three decades, Paul has trained over 10,000 managers and employees from any of Australia's most respected and well-known private and public organisations. Paul has a passion for professional development, ongoing learning, and a deep desire to help develop Australian managers' and employees' skills and work smarts.