Critical Thinking
and Problem-Solving Skills
for Achieving Project Success with Stretched and Limited Resources
The current economic climate has forced organizations to slash budgets and shrink their workforce. In an environment where the mandate is "do more with less," project managers need to be particularly adept at maximizing their resources and delivering a return on their organization's investment.
The ability to apply critical thinking to developing creative solutions to problems and to influencing others to win team member and stakeholder support, significantly enhances a project manager's value as a leader within an organization.
Applying strategies to gain commitment from others, transforming your creativity into practical business solutions, and leveraging a range of qualitative and quantitative tools to manage resources and implement your solutions are all critical competencies for today's project managers.
The following courses will help you develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed for achieving project success with stretched and limited resources.
Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
Course 284 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem solving
- Adapt to different thinking styles in group and team environments
- Recognize and remove barriers to individual and group creativity to foster an innovative work environment
- Systematically analyze a target problem
- Present your ideas clearly and concisely for maximum stakeholder buy-in
- Transform your creativity into practical business solutions
► Get more details and a current schedule Preparing for the PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® Exam
Course 248 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Develop realistic schedules to achieve timely project delivery
- Construct project network diagrams to identify the sequence of work
- Calculate Critical Path to determine the project duration
- Effectively assign resources to build a realistic baseline schedule
- Perform schedule analysis and recommend corrective actions to keep the project on track
- Build readable and reliable project reports to keep stakeholders informed on progress
► Get more details and a current schedule Project Budgeting and Estimating: Taking Control of Your Projects
Course 923 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Create an accurate budget for any level of work from individual project tasks to entire portfolios
- Estimate tasks using activity-based costing, and aggregate to project budgets
- Aggregate individual costs to form a project budget
- Quantify risk to justify contingency funding and produce a defensible baseline
- Manage the program budget, allocating funds to projects with the best rate of return
- Leverage Earned Value Analysis to determine project status, forecasts and any necessary corrections
► Get more details and a current schedule Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority
Course 294 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
- Define desired outcomes for win-win results
- Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
- Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
- Deal effectively with challenging behaviours to overcome resistance and inertia in others
- Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
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