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Project Management & Change Management

PM 101

Project Management 101 focuses primarily on how to begin a project and ensure that you have everything you need, including a charter and a viable stakeholder management process. In this Project Management 101 workshop, we make the process, jargon, and tools of professional project managers easy for everyone to understand. After a brief overview of industry standards and PMI (the Project Management Institute), you will experiment with various activities in order to learn what makes a project successful.

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Detailed Course Outline

Project Management Basics
  • Project Management terms and basics
  • Project Constraints
  • Responding to Change Requests
  • Setting Clear Project Goals and Deliverables
  • Overview of PM Process Groups
  • 4 Questions to Ask at the Start of Every Project
PMI: The Industry Standard
  • The Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • PMI Certifications – Project Management Professional
  • How/Why you Might Get Certified
Stakeholder Management
  • Identify Stakeholders
  • Getting Stakeholders on Your Side
Identifying Feasibility and Project Launch
  • Preliminary Requirements Gathering
  • Realign to Solution Focus
  • Announce the Project with a Charter
Outcomes:
  • Develop a better understanding of Project Management and PM Terms
  • Techniques to deal with change requests
  • Usable structures to start a project the right way
  • How to manage stakeholders

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 102

In PM 102: Project Planning – Create the Plan, continue digging into the mechanics of planning in order to ensure that your next project is a success. You will also learn to use critical path methodology to predict how long a project will take and discover what to do when faced with unexpected delays. Experiment with the tools that are used by experts in this field and modify them to work for your benefit. This workshop will teach you to build a communication plan and schedule with a work-breakdown structure while keeping effort, duration, and resources in mind.


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Detailed Course Outline

Communication Planning
  • What Information to Communicate and How to Communicate It
Project Requirements
  • Uncover Business Requirements of the Project
  • Specify Everything the Deliverables Must Do & Be Like
  • How to Discover Hidden Requirements
Building the List of Tasks
  • Create Different Types of Work Breakdowns
  • Correctly Estimating Time
Risk Planning
  • How Risk Planning Works
  • Building Mitigation and Contingency Plans
  • Distributing Risk Responsibility with Triggers
Outcomes:
  • A professional requirements document
  • Communication planning that keeps people in the loop
  • A break down of the work involved (WBS) and the schedule
  • An approach to professional risk management

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 103

In this workshop, continue digging into the mechanics of planning in order to ensure that your next project is a success. You will also learn to use critical path methodology to predict how long a project will take and discover what to do when faced with unexpected delays. Experiment with the tools that are used by experts in this field and modify them to work for your benefit. This workshop will teach you to build a communication plan and schedule with a work-breakdown structure while keeping effort, duration, and resources in mind.

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Detailed Course Outline

Observe, Track, and Report
  • How to track projects and what to pay attention to
  • How to get real and honest answers when tracking
  • Observe and track a project’s progress and variances
  • Run an effective project status meeting
  • How to report clearly and concisely
Risk Management, Uncovering Issues, and Closing
  • Analyzing risk
  • How to figure out what’s going wrong when things “keep happening”
  • What to do when the final product is delivered
  • How to learn from mistakes and smooth out future projects
Outcomes:
  • Clarity on how to keep track of projects while they run
  • The ability to keep people in the loop and on track
  • Projects that run more smoothly and are less “dangerous”
  • A project team that constantly improves

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM For the rest of us

Whether you are starting a new project or currently executing an existing project, this course will help participants better understand essential information and best practices that will improve project performance. This course helps project teams align on terminology, roles & responsibilities, and provides techniques for breaking project deliverables into manageable tasks.

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$250 -or- 2 Tickets(click for more info!)

Detailed Course Outline

Outline
  • Project and Project Management Defined
  • Project roles defined: Project Sponsor, Project Manager, Project Requestor, Project Team, Stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts
  • An introduction to Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid Project Management Methodologies
  • Project Management Triangle: Scope, Time, Cost
  • The Five Project Phases
  • Project Objectives, Deliverables, and Requirements
  • Task Management and Creating a Task List
Outcomes
  • Understand project management terminology
  • Know how to align stakeholders to key project management roles
  • Outline project objectives, deliverables, requirements, and success metrics
  • Understand how to align on project changes using the Project Management Triangle
  • Develop a project task list to ensure ownership in creating deliverables

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

Detailed Course Outline

Outline:
  • Define what change management is
  • Explore all phases of the change management process
  • Learn the key roles and how to work effectively with each
  • Create a change management plan using the CSC Framework
  • Examine strategies for avoiding costly mistakes and the dangers of change fatigue
Outcomes
  • Understand key components of the change management process
  • Define roles and responsibilities involved in the change process
  • Engage key stakeholders to get them onboard with a change initiative
  • Create a change management plan, focused on communication, skills, and collaboration
  • Recognize and avoid costly mistakes associated with change

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 103

In this data-driven process improvement workshop, we focus on how to get better business results by understanding root causes of process challenges and directly addressing them using problem solving techniques. Teams are constantly asked to deliver more results with less resources, therefore we will help you shift your mindset and look for ways to work more efficiently and effectively.

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Objectives
  • Understand the DMAIC model and how to apply this problem-solving approach when improving processes
  • Develop a Project Charter to clarify scope in the Define phase of process improvement
  • Identify how and when to appropriately use root cause analysis (RCA) tools
  • Learn techniques to successfully execute process improvement working sessions
Outline
  • Process improvement defined
  • Reasons for evaluating and improving processes
  • An introduction to the DMAIC process improvement model: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control
  • How to create a Project Charter to support the process improvement efforts
  • Root cause analysis (RCA) tools that can be used to support the current process state: fishbone diagram, affinity diagram, pareto chart, flowchart
  • Getting the team aligned on process improvements

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 102

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the rapid changes taking place in technology, communication, and working conditions during this global pandemic. So how can you foster a positive mindset and develop strategies to stay resilient and growth-oriented? This training will give you the mental framework and tools you need to prepare for change and to maintain a growth mindset amidst challenging or uncertain times.


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Detailed Course Outline

Outline:
  • The impact of changing times
  • Resiliency vs Grit
  • The importance of resilience
  • How to build resilience
  • Reframing your perspective with cognitive reappraisal
  • How to grip your grit
  • Grit and goal setting
Outcomes:
  • Discover your ability to keep going when things get tough.
  • Learn how to drive more success at work and home and how to stop giving up.
  • Gain an ability to bring a growth mindset to those around you.

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

PM 102

Stress is a normal part of every day. We may think of it as only bad or distress, but we also experience eustress, a positive type of stress. This interactive workshop investigates the causes of stress at work and teaches how to differentiate between distress and eustress. Participants will first master stress management strategies by creating an action plan that mitigates or regulates their stress triggers. Participants will then learn how to optimize eustress to use it to their advantage.

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Detailed Course Outline

What is stress?
  • Good stress, bad stress, eustress, distress
  • The stress experience
Workplace stress management
  • E.A.S.E
  • Promoting eustress
Outcomes
  • Understand the cause and experience of stress.
  • Differentiate between eustress and distress.
  • Follow an action plan to manage stress by using E.A.S.E., Learnit’s 4-step method for regulating and mitigating stress triggers.

"Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class."

Three Class Discount

Buy any three classes and receive 20% off.

The Training to YOU Three Class Discount is a terrific way for an individual to purchase multiple classes for a discount. Whether you are looking for a series of classes like Excel 1, 2 & 3 or a variety of classes such as Google Sheets, Docs and Slides the Three Class Discount is the way to go!

State of Arizona employees are eligible for an additional discount.

Three Class Discount

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“I learned so much in this Excel 1 course. My Instructor paced the class just right so you felt challenged but not overwhelmed (even with 264 pages). He ensured we were all engaged in the material and always allowed us an opportunity to ask any questions. He is patient and eager to help. I’m thrilled to have found this class and leaving with so much useful information. Overall one of the best instructors I’ve had! He did an amazing job!! ”

— S.G. took Excel 1

“I really enjoyed this class. My instructor has a very unique ability to convert technical terminology into plain English and makes the material so much easier to understand. My instructor was very attentive and ensured everyone was on the same page before moving on and provided assistance if we were having any difficulties.”

— A.G. took Excel 2

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