Project Management Skills –

Project Management means using specific knowledge, skills and techniques

Two ideas to increase success with projects include:

1. Develop a plan before you start implementing any actions. The goal of your plan is to:

• Clarify responsibilities and roles of the project team
• Outline how the project will be completed with regards to time, cost and performance
• Document the resources needed (human, electronic, external, physical)

2. Use the following tools to manage your projects:

• Team cooperation checklist
• Planning and organizing checklist
• Responsibility assignment matrix
• Gnatt charts
• Critical Path Mapping
• Contingency planning charts
• Follow up evaluation questions

Our project management skills training workshop provides the project management skills for effective project planning and control.

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Leadership – Increasing Team Cooperation –

Increase productivity and success by instilling a team spirit. Build a cooperative climate by focusing effort on understanding.

Six ideas to increase success with team cooperation include:

1. Communicate the problems team members face
2. Ask for help in order to help team members to make their best contribution.
3. Discuss issues and problems openly in team meetings.
4. Watch how team members treat each other.
5. Make respect the foundation for all of your communication.
6. Apply a specific problem-solving model to help find solutions

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Project Management Skills –

The key to effective project management is to create and respect objectives, schedules and budgets.

Two ideas to increase success with projects include knowing that:

1. Each project needs a project owner. A person or a committee need to be responsible for:

• Approving the team
• Defining the responsibilities
• Providing information
• Providing resources
• Clarifying important issues
• Communication between departments

2. Each project needs a clear statement of the expected outcomes, the approach, the timelines and the budget.  Do not start the planning until you have a scope statement that has the sponsor’s approval.

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Leadership – Increasing Team Cooperation –

To create and maintain a winning organization, work on building team spirit. Nothing ensures a cooperative climate better than great relationships. Direct your team’s effort to understand and help each other.

Three ideas to increase success with team cooperation include:

1. Make sure that everyone on the team is aware of the big picture.
2. Make sure that everyone on the team knows how they can contribute to the solution.
3. Make sure that everyone on the team works at valuing of contributions of the other team members.

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Negotiating Skills –

Negotiation.is happening all the time!

Seven ideas to increase negotiating success include:

1. Identify your limits – Know “when to fold ‘em”; know when to walk away.
2. Use silence as a technique to get more information
3. Know that information is power.
4. Think of compromise only as your fallback strategy if something is important to you.
5. Use collaboration when something is important to you.
6. Discover common ground and mutual benefits
7. Ask questions like:
   • What will it take to make a deal?
   • What will it take to fix this conflict?
   • What will it take to gain your trust?
   • What will it take to make you happy you?
   • What will it take to resolve this?

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