Advanced Project Management

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues:

General Project Management Issues

• Concept of Project Management
• Project Sustainability
• Developing a Project
• Project Planning
• Team Management and Problem Solving
• Project Management Methodologies, Tools and Techniques
• Some Problem Solving Techniques
• Project Control
• Project Purchasing
• Pre-Feasibility and Feasibility Studies
• Scoping, Strategy Setting and Final Agreement
• Project Structure and Managing Meetings
• Process and Event Based Methodologies, Software Packages, Flow Charts, Imagineering
• Mind Mapping, Fish Bone Method, ‘Is and Is Not’ and Brain Storming
• Tracking Timing and Costs, Contingencies
• Working With Suppliers and Sub-Contractors

Risk and Financial Risk Management in Advanced Project Management

• Defining Risk – Generally, and in a Project Management Setting
• Relating Risk Management to Projects and Project Management
• Financial Risk Management and Project Management
• Risk Exposure in a Project Setting
• Project Risk and ‘Market Dynamics’
• Liquidity in Project Management
• Operating Risk and Financial Liability
• Fraud Risk and Project Management
• Link Settlement Risk with ‘Survival Imperative’
• Project Management Strategy and Risk Management
• Currency Derivatives Market and ‘Project Sustainability’

Motivating Workers in Advanced Project Management

• Directing or Leading in a Project Setting
• The Concept of Motivation
• Applying Content Theories of Motivation to Project Settings
• Taylor’s Money-Motivator As a Reward Strategy
• Motivator-Hygiene Factor: Using Herzberg’s Ideas As a Basis for an Effective ‘Employee Relations Strategy’
• Applying Equity Theory: Recognising Inequity
• Goal-Setting Theory: Performance Management Application
• Expectancy Theory: What Does Valence Holds For Project Management Targets?
• Improving Project Sustainability Through an Equitable Reward System
• Reinforcement Theories:
• Reinforcement Theory
• Motivation and Contingency Theory: Accounting for Situational Variables
• Is Performance Related Pay (PRP) applicable to a Project Management Setting?
• Designing An Effective Motivation Strategy: Accounting for Internal and External Project Dynamics
• Introducing Talent Management: Creating and Equitable Solution
• The extent to which salary or wages inducement motivate workers