To qualify the students in the human resource management aspects and the project leadership.
The course will enable the participant to understand the teamwork’s challenges, the motivational factors and the potential conflicts within a project environment.
Training content
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Distinguish the project team from the conventional team
- Understand the conflicts dual nature
- Manage conflict effectively
- Motivate the team using the approaches proposed in the major motivational theories
- Influencing stakeholders and power concepts
- Influencing stakeholders using leadership and power concepts
- Manage stress during critical periods
- Identify the major human features of a successful project manager
- Apply different relationship tactics in the different phases of the project
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Fact sheet
- Course duration [?]
- 16 hours
- Number of participants [?]
- Minimum 20 students per class
- Target audience
- Project managers, project team members, human resource managers, PMO members, sponsors and others stakeholders interested in the project management process.
- Requirements
- None
- Language(s) [?]
- Portuguese, English and Spanish
- Local
- Provided by the contractor. Worldwide attendance.
- Certification and PDU [?]
- All training participants will receive a participation certificate with 16 PMI's PDUs.
(PMI R.E.P. activity number: Macro007)
Teaching Methodology Top ↑
Macrosolutions had developed the market's most awarded dynamics, concerning the projects training.
In this course, the following dynamics will be used:
- Case studies
Ricardo Vargas throughout his career as a project manager and an expert in that area has selected a relevant set of case studies and exercises that allow the participants to associate real and fictional cases the to daily work.
All case studies are appropriate to the nature of the client and the training audience.
- Videos selection
In order to facilitate the student learning, videos that cover various parts of movies, commercials, home videos, etc. are used in the classroom environment to fix concepts and associate technical issues with the reality of work and also to introduce new concepts.
They are short videos with direct focus on specific topics, tools and cases.
- Group Work
Several studies and exercises will be proposed by the instructor in order to present a particular topic or discuss a particular approach to project management.
Throughout the training the teamwork will be encouraged and strengthened as a mean for the group to learn.
- Find 'C'
Dynamic addressed to the communication process in large teams where the group is challenged to calculate the mathematical value of C from the information fragments distributed in the room.
Courseware
The courseware to be received by the students will consist of slides, articles and lists of exercises, and it may also contain the following special products by Ricardo Vargas:
- Book Project Management: Establishing Competitive Advantages
- 5 Minutes PM Videocast. Practical classes with Ricardo Vargas. DVD distributed worldwide by Microsoft that celebrates the Microsoft Project 2010 launch.
Exclusive student access area
In addition to the exclusive printed material, all participants will have access to the courseware’s electronic version, to the files of exercises and to the work done in the classroom.
The access is given through the restricted site that is available and prepared by the Macrosolutions team considering each course that we provide.
This initiative is a pioneer in the educational market and also anticipates trends related to the documents’ electronic management
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Training basic program
- ‣ Course opening
- 1. The Context of Project Human Resources Management
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- Human Resources definition
- The benefits of human resource processes
- Human Resource and its influences on the projects
- 2. Project Human Resources Processes
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- Human Resource Planning
- Acquire Project Team
- Develop Project Team
- Manage Project Team
- 3. The Project Manager
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- The roles of the project manager
- The Posner Study and the project manager characteristics
- The main mistakes made when selecting a project manager
- Applying Eneagram to understand relationships
- 4. Project Leadership
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- The role of leadership today
- The definition of leadership
- The advantages inherent to a leader
- The leader main challenges
- Leader x Manager
- What is the required leadership profile of a project manager
- 5. Teams
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- The characteristics of a project team
- Advantages and obstacles when working in a team
- Team formation and development phases (Tuckman)
- Team types
- Prioritization dynamics and team work
- 6. Understanding Motivation and Power
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- Building up motivation(process and content theories)
- Maslow, Theory X and Y, Herzberg
- How to maximize the interpersonal relationship
- The use of SDI® to analyze the individual preferences
- Power and its use on team management
- Sources of power (French and Raven)
- Effective power
- The influence of power on the project’s outcomes
- The 48 Laws of Power (Greene)
- 7. Change, Conflict and Stress
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- Managing change
- Changes as a positive influence
- The change and the leader
- The phases of change: from resistance to support
- The change and conflicts
- The leader as a conflict manager
- The main sources of conflicts
- Positive and negative causes of conflicts
- Conflict and Stress
- Eustress x Distress
- Managing stress in the project
- Conflict x Stress x Performance
- Conflict Resolution Exercise – Self-assessment
- ‣ Course close-out
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Supported standards and methodologies
Project Management Institute (PMI) PMBOK Guide Yes PMI Practice Standard for Estimating — PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management — PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management Yes PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management — PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure — PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling — PMI Standard for Portfolio Management — PMI Standard for Program Management — PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework Yes Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) — UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) — MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) — M_O_R (Management of Risks) — P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model) — P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) — MoP (Management of Portfolios) — MoV (Management of Value) — Scrum Alliance Scrum Methodology Yes International Project Management Association (IPMA) ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline Yes