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Challenges facing your organisation
To what extent are you and your organisation involved in reform
programmes, for example, helping to eradicate illiteracy and poverty,
improving the quality and standard of life and customer care? To what
extent are programmes and projects aligned to meet customer
determined strategic objectives?
How effectively are programmes and projects conceived, planned and
implemented? Do they take longer than expected to complete? Exceed
budget? Fail to meet quality standards and evaluation criteria set by
donors and key stakeholders?
Do you feel a need to enhance project supervision and monitoring skills?
Build and motivate high performing project teams? If so, this is the
programme for you.
Benefits of attending
You will be better able to:
 Align programmes and projects to achieving the organisation’s or
nation’s strategic objectives
Conceptualise, define, appraise, plan, implement and successfully
conclude programmes and projects
Manage teams effectively
Supervise, monitor and evaluate a diversity of programmes and
projects
Apply best practices and avoid pitfalls.
Programme aim
The programme will enhance participants’ skills in managing programmes
and projects ranging from the simplest performance improvement
programme through to complex, multi-million dollar international
programmes and projects.
The design is highly interactive and practical, providing skills practice,
enhancing analytical, problem solving skills; learning best practice from
case studies, discussion sessions and site visits.
What you will learn
How to initiate and scope projects, aligning them to strategic
organisational and programme goals
How to establish entry, negotiate scope and the contract; agree key
success factors and criteria of evaluation and effectively manage client
and stakeholder relationships
Techniques to deal effectively with donors, international funding
agencies and NGOs
How to conduct feasibility studies, assess and manage risks
Project appraisal; how to forecast requirements, source funds and
effectively manage finances, ensuring transparency and accountability
How to secure additional resources such as information, technologies,
materials and labour through effective negotiations
How to agree benchmarks and performance indices for evaluating
outcomes
Total Quality Management of programmes and projects
How to select and apply relevant methods and techniques of effective
project planning, scheduling, supplier management, logistics and
control including PRINCE2 and Project Gateway methodology
How to lead, motivate and build effective teams, prevent and resolve
conflicts and manage change
How to manage single and multiple streams and simple through to
complex international projects
How to monitor progress and solve problems
How to manage the media and sustain positive public relations
How to apply lessons from best practice and failures
How to evaluate and report on outcomes using SWOT analysis based
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