Project Management for Executives and Managers
Your contribution as a Sponsor to making projects a success
In your organisation more projects fail than you would wish to? Are they taking longer than planned? Or do they cost more? Are there quality problems and frequent reworking?
„Execution Excellence“ is not just a dream but really feasible. As an executive or manager you have a decisive influence on success, an optimum resource utilisation and an adherence to deadlines.
Seminar Objectives
We will teach you how to focus on essentials in spite of temporal and financial constraints, how to reduce risks through proper planning and how to steer projects effectively from the company's point of view. You will find out how to align your projects with the overall strategy of your company. In addition we will look at multi-project management, change management and the project culture within your company. You will return with many concrete ideas on how to optimize the project management in your company.
Your Benefit
We introduce the topics to you in theory and then discuss their relevance for your specific situation in the company. We work with a hands-on, professional approach and include our years of experience in project management. We are concerned with the practical usefulness in your everyday work life and take the entire system concerning 'projects' and its linkage in your company into account. We place our importance on methodological as well as organisational and psychosocial aspects. The PS-Project Management Concept has been used successfully for many years in a lot of companies as well as for international projects.
Seminar Topics
The successful project
- What makes a project successful?
- Which success criteria can be influenced directly by a decision-maker?
From good ideas to good projects
- How do visions become strategies and then projects?
- How do strategies become „feasible“?
- How to choose the best projects regarding the conflict area of limited time and scarce resources
The adequate project manager
- Which qualifications and experiences should a good project manager possess?
- What does a good coordination between decision-maker and project manager look like?
Efficient project organisation
- Typical conflict areas between project and line managers and their solution
- Sharing tasks, competences and responsibility in a project adequately
- Resource arrangements, change, overload – and how to handle it?
Clarifying the project charter
- Benefits of project charters & necessary contents
- The most important methods for achieving clarification of goals
- Concept phases and instructions
- Considering frameworks and dependencies
- Ensuring feasibility – the dividing line between „challenging“ and „unrealistic“ objectives
Intentional risk management
- Well-founded investment decisions – do you know both risks as well as possible impacts?
- How much do preventative and emergency measures cost?
- Intentional risk decision-making and risk management
Assuring successful implementation
- How to keep an overall picture of project proceedings and project state in your company?
- How much controlling and reporting is necessary?
- What can be done if a project gets out of hand?
- How to deal with escalations in a constructive way?
- What does professional change management look like?
Multi-Project Management
- How to steer many projects or whole programmes simultaneously?
- How to deal with dependencies regarding content or resource bottlenecks?
- When is it useful to have a project office?
The project culture in your company
- Which way of dealing with people is useful for working in projects? What is more of a hindrance?
- How to set up an environment in which projects can be successful?
- Which standards and tools are necessary for smooth project work?
- Which qualifications are essential for professional project management?
Further Details
- Target Group
The seminar is intended for (managing) directors, general & functional managers who instruct projects or have an essential decision-making role in them. - Group Size
Maximum of 12 participants. This way, we wish to make sure that the seminar is highly efficient and guarantee the highest possible benefit for you. - Language
Our open enrolment courses are in German only. As an in-house seminar we can deliver this course also in English. - Duration
1 Day - Notice
In English, we normally conduct this course only as an inhouse-seminar. Please contact us for further details. If you are interested in open enrolment courses in German, please visit our German language site.
