Practical Project Management

Ron Eckman, Apex Project Management Ltd

Project Management skills training for Project Managers

If you plan or manage projects or need to make an effective contribution to projects in your workplace, this course is for you!

Ron Eckman’s Practical Project Management workshop has proved a success for people from all types of backgrounds including government departments, local government, health bodies and providers, community organisations, private companies (construction, consulting and manufacturing, self-employed trades people, owner/managers and trainers.

Ron’s training approach will ensure that whether you’re new to project management or already have some project management experience, you’ll leave his workshop equipped with an understanding of basic project management principles and framework, and a set of skills and tools that you can immediately put to use in your workplace. The training does not use project management software – it is hands-on and practical.

Specific topics are selected to meet the needs of enrolled participants and include:

• Project Management principles and best practice
• The Project Brief
• Project Management Life Cycle and Milestone Charts
• Defining a project’s Deliverables and Scope Matrix
• Project Success and Risk Factors

Participants can expect to:

• gain practical skills, tools and techniques that can be applied to any project
• learn how to approach and structure a project
• learn how to identify a project’s stakeholders and manage their expectations
• understand the principles of successful project management
• learn how to avoid some basic project pitfalls

The course will equip you with the skills to be able to:

• clearly define a project’s purpose and scope
• apply practical techniques for planning and scheduling a project
• cope with ‘difficult’ people in a project team
• identify the risks and mitigate them
• check and report on the project’s status to different stakeholder

Includes comprehensive workbook, lunch, morning and afternoon tea.

Course Presenter

Ron Eckman, Director of Apex Project Management is New Zealand’s most experienced and successful project management trainer, and regularly delivers project management training for Victoria University of Wellington. He has served on the Project Management Institute (PMI) judging panel for the International Project of the Year Competition and on the PMI International Ethics Review Committee. Find out more about Ron Eckman at www.apex.co.nz

Feedback from previous workshops

• Excellent practical tools to use in planning and executing any project. Karen Tasker, Contracts Advisor, Te Puni Kokiri.
• Excellent course. Gave a clear understanding of the steps and challenges of project management and tools to deal with these. Natacha Chossudovsky, Regional Arts Development Officer, Arts Promotion Trust.
• Outstanding practical tools and techniques. Skills gained in scoping a project, defining milestones and setting timeframes. Renee Fletcher, Website Coordinator, Sport Northland.
• This workshop provided skills to set the project scope and deliverables and to manage team members and stakeholder expectations. Jonathan Gibbard, Policy Specialist, Northland Regional Council.
• Excellent practical tools and techniques to use. Grant Adams, Mechanical Maintenance Superintendent, Ballance Agri-Nutrients Ltd.
• Great short course which provides a practical application using ‘real’ examples. Jillian Fulcher, Programme Manager, NorthTec.
• The course covered all the necessary steps to being an excellent positive project team member or manager. Graeme Cate, Planner, New Zealand Refining Company.
• The best training I’ve done for a long time. I’m a practical person so the training suited my needs. Jasmine Pirini, Community Researcher, Te Runanga o Te Rarawa.