Our Management Training Workshops

By introducing our Management Training workshops to your staff we help ease the negative effect of change on both managerial and supervisory personnel. The change in job responsibilities, the change in personnel, job duties, and the rising challenge of developing subordinates are specific goals of our learning systems workshops. We are highly successful at helping Managers and Supervisors learn and adapt to the necessary skills and proper behaviors to be successful at work as well as in their personal lives.

For more information on our management training workshops please contact us.

As a part of our management training workshops, Managers and Supervisors will learn how to:

• Minimize the chance of miscommunication by understanding what people are really saying, and why
• Deal with difficult people, manage tense situations, and resolve conflict
• Make use of proven active listening skills to improve your ability to gain helpful information
• Be able to facilitate, guide, and close discussions in one-on-one or group settings
• Improve understanding and communication by giving and receiving good feedback
• Use ideas submitted by a member of the team without causing other members to be defensive
• Develop a comprehensive team building strategy that improves productivity of the whole team
• Emphasize the value of working toward common goals without devaluing individual accomplishment
• Define and set up a method to track staff activities
• Be able to manage time and work assignments effectively
• Conduct team meetings that capture and hold the audience’s attention
• Interview and hire the right person for the right job
• Save time and work more effectively through the use of a clear time management plan
• Understand and comply with proper hiring and managing requirements
• Communicate effectively with both superiors, peers and subordinates
• Become effective coaches for their work team
• Conduct accurate and difficult performance appraisals

 

The project is the mighty cornerstone of business, the way we drive from point A to point B, and the measurable system for getting things done. There are several facets to best practices in project management. This article will discuss one of the most critical, the scoping of a project. Project scope is the manner in which one will go about getting the project managed and how to properly delegate tasks to the project team members.

There are two parts to what defines project scope:

Scope creep management and Scope management plan

Scope management plan is a document created to outline how a project will be defined, managed, controlled, verified, and communicated out to the team. It also allows the stakeholders and clients the ability to understand clearly how the project will be managed. A good project scope management document makes it easy to understand how a project will get managed and can be used to control change management. This measure of control greatly reduces missteps. Some items are listed as within the scope of the project, then others are deemed out of scope. Those out of scope will go directly through the change control process and are not automatically added to the project work items. The project scope Management plan is included in an overall project management plan. It can be very detailed and formal or loosely framed and informal depending on the communication needs of the project.

Scope creep refers to the natural habit of a project to slowly grow as time goes on. This usually occurs because more requirements get introduced or issues come up that were not seen in the initial part of the project. A good project scope will include anticipation for the scope creep.

Scope creep management is a study of your team, the habits of how they work, and how you prepare for the scope creep. Projects are set on a timeline and once approved changes to that timeline are frowned upon. Whether it is a technology roll out or a new plan for a team an unplanned and unapproved change in the scope can affect the success of the project. Scope creep is the primary reason that projects go awry or over budget.

Together, a good project scope management plan and a handle on scope creep management will greatly increase a project's chances of getting completed on time and within the expected budget.

Karl Goldfield is a collaboration agent that has worked with virtual and distributed teams for over 20 years. As a sales and marketing executive he has had to maintain teams and projects globally with people at all levels of an organization.

Teambox is a project collaboration tool that can be found online and used for free at http://teambox.com.

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