Executive Education

In this intensive three-day workshop, you will step beyond the essentials of project management and deal with real problems that result from changes during a project's life cycle. You will work through the process of bringing an actual project to completion with minimal impact on overall performance, budget and schedule objectives. This is a true, hands-on experience. No lectures. No theory. You will work with other attendees to address and resolve actual project management obstacles.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

*This course is required for the Project Management Series Certificate.

Project Management Core Courses:
Strategic Project Management
Project Risk Management
Advanced Project Management

Prerequisites
Strategic Project Management
Project Risk Management

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Tackle an actual project and see the impact of real-world constraints and challenges

• Deal with a variety of challenges, financial and technical constraints, internal politics, and team dynamics

• Analyze and work through case studies that hit at the heart of project success and failure

Prepare for the GMAT in this comprehensive, ten-week program at the Robins School of Business. Your GMAT score is a vital aspect of the MBA admissions process and thorough preparation is critical for success. Come gain the knowledge you need, in a Business School environment, to pass the exam and take your next step on the way to your MBA.

Instructor: Chris Hutter

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Gain verbal, mathematical and analytical writing skills necessary to pass the exam

• Learn test-taking tricks to help you stay on-task and confident throughout the exam

• Understand the exam format through extensive practice questions and samples

Most adult training programs are modeled after teaching to children. You will learn how to design and develop training programs specifically for adult learners in this one-day program, the first of three in the Train-the-Trainer Certificate Series.

Instructor: Edward Jones, Ph.D.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Create successful, stimulating training programs for adult learners

• Increase the return on investment for your company's training programs

• Retain employees who have been successfully trained

• Entice even the most reluctant participants to be eager to learn

This introductory workshop, created specifically for new or aspiring project managers, will introduce the basic principles of the planning, scheduling, and budgeting processes essential in successfully launching projects.  The fundamentals of risk management and project alignment will also be presented.  This hands-on workshop contains two fun-filled learning projects that will challenge you to utilize your new skills in a competitive environment against other project teams.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

 Key Takeaways:

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Define and quantify project expectations and deliverables
• Confirm the strategic alignment between project expectations and your capability to deliver them
• Establish an achievable project scope
• Assess the risks associated with your project so that you can create effective contingency plans
• Build a project schedule that incorporates all essential tasks, dependencies, and organizational constraints
• Build a project budget that reflects the actual costs of your project
• Put these tools and techniques into practice in a challenging exercise

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Are you an aspiring executive?  Are you one of your organization’s high-potentials?  Do you want to prepare yourself for personal and career growth and recognition?

In an intensive and rigorous 3-day session, Leadership Boot Camp I offers you the opportunity to prepare yourself for that leadership role, poised to take your place on your organization’s strategic team.

Boot Camp I allows you to discover, understand and develop your personal leadership skills. Various assessments will help you discover your natural communication and leadership styles and strengths. Classroom exercises and activities will introduce positive and effective skills along with time for reinforcement of the newly learned behaviors.

Boot Camps I helps you develop the tools and skills that will give you the competitive edge that is required for success in today’s business environment. 

You can register for either one or both of the Boot Camp series.   Boot Camp I is not a prerequisite for Boot Camp II.

Register for both Boot Camp I and II at the same time $3000.

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Are you an aspiring executive?  Are you one of your organization’s high-potentials?  Do you want to prepare yourself for personal and career growth and recognition?

In an intensive and rigorous 3-day session, Leadership Boot Camp II offers you the opportunity to prepare yourself for that leadership role, poised to take your place on your organization’s strategic team.

Boot Camp II will focus on stregthening your business acumen. This broadening of your understanding of all areas of business will allow you to analyze implications, make more well-informed decisions and understand the strategic decisions made by others in your organization. 

Boot Camp II helps you develop the tools and skills that will give you the competitive edge that is required for success in today’s business environment. 

You can register for either one or both of the Boot Camp series.   Boot Camp I is not a prerequisite for Boot Camp II.

Register for both Boot Camp I and II at the same time $3000.

The selection and management of your project team is as important as the project plan itself. Without a cohesive project team and the interpersonal chemistry to function as a unit, your project may fall short of everyone’s expectations. Successful project managers utilize proven team management techniques in the selection, direction and motivation of their project.

Your success as a project manager hinges on realizing the power of your team and being proactive in accepting responsibility for team output and results. This unique program offers a comprehensive look at the tools, techniques and methodologies that successful project managers use in a broad array of industries and projects.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Identify the common pitfalls that can sink projects and the manager

• Use a mechanism to monitor team and individual progress toward project goals

• Allocate milestones and workload among your team members

• Turn constraints and problems into opportunities to promote team creativity, rather than frustration and stagnation

Effective management must be learned either through experience or from a technical professional who has made the transition into management. In either case, there is a learning process. This tools and techniques-oriented session examines how to develop an effective management style that will guide your transition from a technical position into the management ranks. Learn how to leverage your technical expertise into a powerful management style.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Understand the difference managing people and managing projects

• Make effective decisions when there is no "black and white"

• Reduce the cycle time and overhead associated with your organization

• Assess the true value your function adds to the organization

• Utilize the tools to apply in assessing and resolving functional and organizational problems

Achieve professional recognition by passing the Project Management Professional^® exam and receiving the PMP^® designation, an international professional credential from the Project Management Institute. In this three-day program, you will develop tools for organizing and remembering the information covered in the PMBOK^® guide and the recommended references needed to pass the PMP Certification Exam^®. You will master the PMI^® framework and have opportunities to test the application of your knowledge through sample questions and a practice exam. During the course you will learn how to efficiently complete the application, schedule the exam, and gather test-taking hints for both online and paperbased testing.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Gain tools and techniques for remembering critical information necessary to pass the PMP Certification Exam^®

• Practice testing the application of your PMP knowledge through practice exams and sample questions

• Gain the knowledge necessary for all aspects of the PMP exam process, including the application, scheduling, and test-taking hints

Planning is the key to a successful training program. In this two-day workshop, you will design a real-world training program using your organization’s materials, and also learn techniques that will help you save time and money on future programs. This is the second course of three within the Train-the-Trainer Certificate Series.

Instructor: Edward Jones, Ph.D.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Learn how to use the C.A.P. model for identifying instructional goals

• Practice three necessary steps for instructional outcomes

• Discover the top 10 creative training points for designing training

An organization’s bottom-line is the primary indicator of successful cost control. Too many project managers think of cost simply in terms of sound control systems. Cost management is more than control. Cost is a factor in all phases of a project, and well-grounded project management skills directly relate to cost management success. You will learn sound techniques in managing, as well as controlling, cost. The end result is a cadre of useful tools for making cost one of the success factors for the total project.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

NOTE: This course is a pre-requisite for the PMP Certification Test Preparation Course.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Manage costs and resources for the entire project

• Examine cost risks in all phases of the project

• Develop a cost and risk management plan

• Establish price and estimate processes that will work for you

• Use earned-value to track project progress

Every project you manage contains risk. Risk comes in many forms and each requires a unique solution. Explore the many faces of risk and learn techniques to analyze each one. Work through real case studies to see how to apply risk management tools to your projects. This two-day workshop will introduce you to inductive and deductive risk management tools and failure analyses. Also, introduced will be the legal aspects of risk and the decisions that you must make to minimize legal problems.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

*This course is required for the Project Management Series Certificate.

Project Management Core Courses:
Strategic Project Management
Project Risk Management
Advanced Project Management

Prerequisite
Strategic Project Management

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Identify risk early in the planning cycle

• Categorize and compare different risks

• Establish risk criteria for your projects

• Conduct professional inductive and deductive risk assessments

• Apply proactive alternate risk assessment methodologies to your project

• Analyze the decisions you make relative to the risk they introduce into your project

No matter how much time and effort you have spent developing your training programs, an effective presenter can make or break your training program. Sharpen your skills as a trainer in this two-day workshop. Learn creative, inexpensive and easy ways to conduct high-impact training from icebreaker to wrap up. This is the third of three courses within the Train-the-Trainer Certificate Series.

Instructor: Edward Jones, Ph.D.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Gain increased confidence in your presentation skills

• Develop effective training action plans

• Ask 'focusing' questions to stimulate your audience

• Take home a personalized DVD, with Ed Jones' coaching voiceover, as a reference and refresher

• Practice, review, and critique your videotaped training presentation

Whether it’s launching a new product or a global communication system, developing software or constructing a building, it’s your job as a project manager to make it all happen. Project management takes a special set of tactical and practical management skills to carry out this kind of responsibility. This workshop will give you the skills and training you need in all of the critical phases of managing people and projects successfully. The emphasis is on real-world, practical applications developed through years of hands-on experience in world-class, multinational organizations.

Instructor: Michael J. Termini

*This course is required for the Project Management Series Certificate.

Project Management Core Courses:
Strategic Project Management
Project Risk Management
Advanced Project Management

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:

• Uncover project expectations and gauge management's commitment to the project

• Craft an effective project definition and to evaluate feasibility

• Select the best members for your team and motivate their diverse talents

• Proactively minimize risk through quantitative measures

• Process control techniques that will help you stay on schedule and under budget

• Understand the importance of WBS, PERT, and Gantt charts to track your project

• Know the secrets of trade-off analysis

Are you responsible for training employees? As a training professional, you need to continually update your presentation and planning techniques. There are many Train-the-Trainer programs in the U.S., but this program is the only trainer training program that is required for all trainers in several Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Ed Jones is the most highly rated Train-the-Trainer specialist in the country. His expertise in trainer training can bring your skills and effectiveness to a new level.

The Train-the-Trainer program is available to you as a complete week-long program or as individual courses. By registering for the courses as a week-long session, you will save $340.

Instructor: Edward Jones, Ph.D.

Individual courses include: How Adults Learn; Planning, Designing, & Evaluating Effective Training; and Proven Classroom Techniques.

Week-long course tuition: $2195
Individual course tuitions are listed separately.
Tuition includes a Trainer Training Tool Box, certificate, lunch and refreshments.