Key details
Mode of delivery: Classroom-based
Course code: PM19B
Duration: 10 days
Fee: £8,365.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 60
Course Overview
This course offers a forward-thinking and strategic approach to project management, designed to equip professionals with both the technical know-how and leadership mindset required in today’s evolving work environments. Participants delve into the mechanics of estimation, forecasting, and budgeting, mastering the ability to plan and manage resources with financial precision. They explore the complexity of stakeholder relationships, learning to navigate influence, resolve conflict, and foster collaboration. Risk management is tackled with a strategic lens, emphasising anticipation, mitigation, and control. The course also builds commercial awareness through modules on project funding, contracts, and financial appraisal. Beyond execution, it places projects within a wider organisational context — analysing how culture, structure, and board-level dynamics impact project success. Learners gain insight into portfolio selection and strategy alignment, while also developing the tools to lead through change. Through real-world case discussions and interactive planning, this course helps participants build the agility, confidence, and systems thinking needed to lead impactful projects and portfolios in a future-facing world.
Agenda
Day — 1 Project Estimation & Budgeting
- Forecasting Methods
- Forecasts vs Actual Results
- Budgeting methods
Day — 2 Project Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholder Influence
- Stakeholder Conflict
- Stakeholder Management
Day — 3 Project Risk Management
- Risk Strategy and Planning
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Controls
Day — 4 Project Resource management
- Project Funding
- Contracts and Payment Structures
- Financial Appraisal of a Project
Day — 5 Weekly Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Day — 6 The Organisational Context of a Project
- Project managements contribution to strategy
- The effect of organisational strengths and weaknesses on projects
- Key cultural concepts and their impact on projects
Day — 7 Project Selection and Portfolio Management
- Different methods of screening projects
- Analysing project, program, and portfolio management
- Establishing how project portfoilios are built around strategy
Day — 8 The Role of the Board of Directors
- The purpose and function of the board and project board
- Critical evaluation of the boards performance
- Evaluating how the board impacts large strategic projects
Day — 9 Change and the Future of Project Management
- The roles of the change management team
- Strategies to remove the discomfort of change
- Changes currently trending and transforming our world
Day — 10 Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Post-Course
- Six (6) x hour-long Executive Coaching sessions at monthly intervals following Course Completion
Target Audience
- Project managers
- Aspiring project professionals
- Team leaders and supervisors
- Programme and portfolio managers
- Business analysts
- Change managers
- Executives and decision-makers
- Entrepreneurs and startup founders
- Engineers and IT professionals
- NGO and public sector staff
Learning Outcomes
- Understand various forecasting techniques used to predict project costs and timelines.
- analyse discrepancies between projected and actual outcomes to improve future estimates.
- Learn different budgeting approaches to effectively allocate and manage financial resources.
- Evaluate the level of stakeholder influence and its impact on project decisions.
- Identify potential stakeholder conflicts and apply resolution strategies.
- Apply effective stakeholder engagement techniques to ensure project alignment and support.
- Develop comprehensive strategies to identify, assess, and respond to project risks.
- analyse potential project risks and determine their likelihood and impact.
- Implement appropriate risk control measures to minimize the effect of identified risks.
- Understand methods of securing and managing project funding sources.
- Interpret various contract types and payment structures applicable to projects.
- Conduct financial evaluations to assess the economic viability and return on investment of a project.
- Understand how project management contributes to achieving organisational strategy.
- Evaluate the impact of an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses on project execution.
- analyse how cultural factors influence project planning and team dynamics.
- Explore techniques for effectively screening and selecting project opportunities.
- Understand the differences and relationships between project, program, and portfolio management.
- Learn how to align project portfolios with strategic organisational goals.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the board and project board in governance.
- Critically assess the performance of the board in overseeing projects.
- Evaluate the board’s influence on large-scale and strategic project outcomes.
- Understand the function and significance of the change management team in project settings.
- Identify strategies to ease the challenges and resistance associated with organisational change.
- Explore current trends that are reshaping the future of project management globally.
