LOOKING TO START, OR ENHANCE A CAREER IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

Then what are you waiting for? This course will explain how to plan, implement and run a project. You will learn leadership skills, conflict management, all about strategy, potential project problems and solving them. A great project manager is a true asset to any business and having such skills can enhance your career opportunities across the board immeasurably.

AIMS

• Explain what project management is, and what its applications might be.
• Identify and define projects which need management.
• Plan a project.
• Implement a project.
• Evaluate a project following completion.
• Describe technical skills required to manage projects.
• Demonstrate project leadership skills.
• Identify and solve common project problems.
• Consolidate all of the skills and information from throughout the past 8 lessons, and manage a project effectively.

Duration: 100 Hours (Nominal Duration).

Course Materials: Upon enrolment, you will receive all of the materials that are essential to complete the course. Course materials vary depending upon the subject and the study mode, but they may include subject guides, printed notes, textbooks, videos and practical equipment. In certain circumstances you may be required to do extra research in which case your tutor is able to advise you where necessary.

COURSE DETAILS
Develop your ability to manage a wide variety of different types of projects, with relevance to any industry.
Almost everything we do in society can be described as a project, from organising a party or constructing a building, to developing a new business or introducing a new social welfare project. Project management as a skill and field of study is essential for successful organisational management. As a formal management function, project management is found in government, industry, and almost all other organisations. Project Management may be called any of a number of other names such as: Program Management, Product Management, Construction Management, and so on.
Project management as a field of action can often be seen in self help schemes or outreach programs. Whatever the objectives, project management involves a number of phases and skills which are essential to a projects completion. To get a better understanding of this process, the term "project management" can be further broken into "project" and "management".
This 100 hour course is based on, and incorporates the entire contents of a Diploma in Project Management, conducted by the Home Study College in South Africa. The current course is more than the original though, having been updated, upgraded and developed, by tutors of the Australian Correspondence Schools, to streamline and generally improve tutor interaction.
ACS was authorised to use this material under an agreement between the two schools; beyond which the use of these course notes is restricted in accordance with international copyright laws.
CONTENT
There are nine lessons as follows:

1. Introduction
   Understanding what project management is, and what its applications might be.
   
2. Project Identification
   Identification and defining projects which need management.
   
3. Project Planning
   Developing a strategy and framework for the plan.
   
4. Project Implementation
   Managers duties during implementation, developing a Preparation Control Chart,
   Regulating implementation
   
5. Project Completion & Evaluation
   Dangers in this stage, Steps in Project completion, Declaring a project sustainable,
   Developing an evaluation method,
   
6. Technical Project Management Skills
   Preparing a proposal, budget control/management, steps in drawing up a
   post project appraisal.
   
7. Leadership Skills
   Styles of leadership, leadership principles and methods
   
8. Improving Key Personnel Skills
   Listening skills, Negotiation skills, Conflict management
   
9. Major Assignment
   Developing full documentation for a project.

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