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Project Teams: Conducting Team Meetings (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
You should hold regular project team meetings in order to maximize the effectiveness of a project.
After the team has been assigned, you should schedule an introductory meeting, and set team goals. The purpose of an introductory meeting is to familiarize team members with each other, introduce the facilitator and recorder, and clarify questions that team members might have.
In this course you will learn to: identify the various roles in project team meetings and maximize the effectiveness of team meetings, understand the goal setting process in introductory meetings, and identify various issues that a team might face during team meetings.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Project Teams: Conducting Team Meetings |
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You should hold regular project team meetings in order to maximize the effectiveness of a project. After the team has been assigned, you should schedule an introductory meeting, and set team goals. The purpose of an introductory meeting is to familiarize team members with each other, introduce the facilitator and recorder, and clarify questions that team members might have.
In this course you will learn to: identify the various roles in project team meetings and maximize the effectiveness of team meetings, understand the goal setting process in introductory meetings, and identify various issues that a team might face during team meetings. |
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Project Teams: Communicating in a Project Team (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
Although most people think of communication as the act of speaking, the act of receiving a message, or listening, is an extremely vital part of communication. Seventy to 90 percent of your time is spent listening, not speaking. Active listening includes not only hearing words that are spoken, but interpreting the verbal message and nonverbal communication as well.
During a project team meeting, you need to communicate with clarity to ensure that the entire team understands what is said.
In this course you will learn to: use good listening skills when communicating within a project team, understand and use good verbal communication skills and empowerment to communicate effectively within a project team, and receive and give feedback.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Project Teams: Communicating in a Project Team |
1.00 |
Although most people think of communication as the act of speaking, the act of receiving a message, or listening, is an extremely vital part of communication. Seventy to 90 percent of your time is spent listening, not speaking. Active listening includes not only hearing words that are spoken, but interpreting the verbal message and nonverbal communication as well.
During a project team meeting, you need to communicate with clarity to ensure that the entire team understands what is said.
In this course you will learn to: use good listening skills when communicating within a project team, understand and use good verbal communication skills and empowerment to communicate effectively within a project team, and receive and give feedback. |
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Project Management Intermediate: Quality Assurance and Control |
1.25 |
This course will cover how to conduct an audit, identify project costs and cost of quality categories, and reduce overall project costs. You will also learn how to develop a quality control system, describe quality control concepts and statistical terms, and use a variety of quality control tools. |
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Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling |
1.25 |
This course will focus on how to develop a project schedule by using CPM, PERT, project network diagrams, arrow charting, and Gantt charts and how to dentify the benefits of CPM and PERT, the critical path, and the methods of duration compression. |
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Project Management Essentials: Project Performance |
1.00 |
This course will focus on how to measure project performance by using various analysis methods, use calculations in earned value analysis, and control project cost, and identify performance, status, progress, close-out, and final project report. |
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Project Management Essentials: Project Change Control |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to define project change control and how to identify the steps in accommodating the changes in a project. |
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Project Management Essentials: Financial Issues |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to identify the fundamental considerations involved in completing project cost estimates and the importance of your organization’s financial policy and the different types of cost. |
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Project Management Essentials: Defining the Project |
0.50 |
This course will focus on how to identify the participants and the influence of stakeholders on a project and project objectives, benefits, and constraints. |
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Project Management Essentials: Activities and Dependencies |
0.75 |
This course will focus on how to identify project activities and recognize the types of project activities and the categories of dependencies and dependency relationships, analyze activities by creating an activity analysis form, and estimate the time duration and cost of project activities. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Staff Acquisition and Team Building |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the right team members for a given project, negotiate for project staff, and identify categories of personnel problems. You will also learn how to develop a project team, overcome barriers to effective team development, and apply motivational techniques. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Risk Identification and Management |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to classify project risks and identify risk management goals and how to identify the steps in the risk management process, design a risk management plan, and identify key issues that a risk management plan must address. You will also learn how to identify common sources of risks and tools you can use to help in the identification process, and describe and classify risks once they are identified. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Risk Analysis, Response, and Control |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to identify the goals and benefits of risk assessment and follow the qualitative risk analysis process and how to use the quantitative analysis techniques and draw a decision tree. You will also learn how to follow the risk response process and identify the categories for possible risk response plans and how to use the methods of monitoring and controlling project risks and identify the outcomes of monitoring and control. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Quality Management |
1.00 |
This course covers how to identify the characteristics and goals of quality management, incorporate quality management directives into projects, and address the key issues of quality management. You will also learn how to implement quality planning during the initial phases of a project, identify the techniques of quality planning, and the characteristics of a good quality management plan. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Project Performance and Conclusion |
0.50 |
This course will cover how to classify performance reports and evaluate the performance of a project by using variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value analysis. You will also learn how to identify the benefits of close-out reporting and ways to close a project. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Planning and Distributing Information |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to plan for communication during a project, and identify factors that influence people’s perception of communication. You will also learn how to identify the most appropriate method for distributing information, determine the number of lines of communication in a given context, identify common barriers to effective communication, and facilitate trust and strong working relationships. |
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Project Management - Intermediate: Organizational Planning |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the characteristics of a successful project manager, different types of power, and the different project organizational structures. You will also learn how to create a project team, and identify the many facets of organizational planning. |
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Project Management - Basic: Time Management |
1.25 |
This course will teach you how to identify the components of time management, identify the purpose of activity definition and sequencing, and recognize different diagramming techniques. You will also learn how to identify the factors that affect activity duration, and identify techniques for estimating activity duration. |
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Project Management - Basic: Scope Definition, Verification, and Change Control |
1.50 |
This course will cover how to identify the process and benefits of scope definition and verification, and develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) and work package. You will also learn how to identify the types of information that stakeholders need in order to verify a project’s scope, and determine the timing of scope verification. You will be able to better understand how to control changes in project scope, identify the benefits of a scope change control system, and describe why it’s important to create a project database. |
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Project Management - Basic: Schedule Development and Control |
1.50 |
This course will cover how to describe schedule development, identify various mathematical analysis techniques for schedule development, and identify the different ways you can present project schedules. You will also learn how to implement schedule control, level resources, and calculate schedule variances. |
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Project Management - Basic: Resource Identification and Cost Approximating |
0.75 |
This course will cover how to identify the necessary project resources by using a WBS and other tools, identify resource types, and assign resources. You will also learn how to make cost approximations, assess the effect of risk and activity duration on cost estimates, and apply cost estimating techniques. |
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Project Management - Basic: Project Initiation and Scope Planning |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to initiate a project, identify project deliverables, use effective project selection methods, identify project constraints, and write a project charter. This course will encourage you to create a scope statement, create a statement of work, and follow a scope management plan to prevent scope creep. |
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Project Management - Basic: Fundamentals of Project Management |
0.50 |
This course will help you identify the features and characteristics of a project, and identify the difference between product management and project management. You will also learn how to identify the steps and variables of the project management process, and identify some common pitfalls to avoid. |
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Project Management - Basic: Characteristics of a Project |
2.25 |
This course will help you identify characteristics of a project’s internal and external environments, the influence stakeholders have on a project, and different organizational structures. You will also learn how to identify the critical functions, necessary skills, responsibilities, and challenges of a project manager. This course will also cover how to staff a project team, create a skills inventory, and identify the benefits of team building and of establishing a project office. |
