Enabling Agile Adoption for U.S. Government Agencies This session will cover what creative procurement approaches work in the Government marketplace, as well as how leaders can best support this shift to disciplined execution and continuous innovation. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the key principles and techniques for leading and managing project work. It will focus on the core principles and generic methods of project management, showing how these can be applied to typical projects. The scope of the programme includes: The course also emphasises the importance of the leadership and team-working skills needed by project managers and team members in carrying out their roles. The principal training objectives for this programme are to: Explain and demonstrate the key principles of successful project management Demonstrate a range of useful project management tools and techniques Define the role of, and help participants understand the skills required by, the project leader Illustrate the use of project skills through examples and case studies Identify ways to improve project management, both individually and corporately DAY ONE 1 Introduction (Course sponsor) Why this programme has been developed Review of participants' needs and objectives 2 Key concepts and requirements for success Projects and project management Lessons from past projects; the essential requirements for success Differences between projects; characteristic project life cycles The challenges of project management; the role of the project manager Project exerciseA team exercise to demonstrate the challenges of project management 3 Defining project objectives and scope Identifying the stakeholders; key roles and responsibilities Getting organised; managing the definition process Working with the 'customer' to define the project scope 4 Project case study: part 1 Defining the project objectives: syndicate teams define the objectives and scope for a typical project 5 Project planning The nature of planning; recognising planning assumptions Planning the plan; the importance of team involvement Developing the work breakdown structure Estimating task resources, timescales and costs Developing the project schedule Analysing the plan and identifying the critical path 6 Project case study: part 2 Creating the project plan Syndicate teams begin development of their project plans (for completion after session 7) Team presentations and group discussion (after session 7) DAY TWO 7 Managing project risks Understanding and defining project risks Classifying risks and adopting an appropriate risk strategy Identifying, evaluating and managing project risks Agreeing ownership of project risks; the risk register Integrating planning and risk management 8 Project control Pro-active and re-active control; striking the right balance Pre-requisites for effective, pro-active project control Avoiding unnecessary 'scope creep' and controlling change Selecting the data needed to provide early warning of problems Monitoring project performance: 'S' curves, slip charts, earned value Getting good data and assessing project status Defining the roles and responsibilities for control Setting up a routine process for keeping up to date Managing and controlling multiple projects 9 Project case study: part 3 Controlling the project Teams control their project as new developments take place 10 Course review and transfer planning (Course sponsor present) Identify actions to be implemented individually Identify corporate opportunities for improving project management Sponsor-led review and discussion of proposals Conclusion
Why Agile Practices Haven't Taken Over the World Yet Agile practices are without a doubt the most optimal way to handle any project, so why are organizations still dithering and trying to incorporate hybrid solutions? This video will help you understand the 5 major impediments that are preventing your organization from embracing Agile practices. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Why Agile Practices Haven't Taken Over the World Yet Agile practices are without a doubt the most optimal way to handle any project, so why are organizations still dithering and trying to incorporate hybrid solutions? This video will help you understand the 5 major impediments that are preventing your organization from embracing Agile practices. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Conflict in the Workplace Settling clashes is vital for the capacity, all things considered. Clashes are unavoidable; how they're managed is discretionary. Clashes can either decrease profitability or establish an unfriendly work space, or they can be settled in a way which reinforces working connections. To get the best outcomes you need to realize how to move toward them. This course advises you precisely how to change negative experiences in the working environment into a helpful open door for development. This course has been made for the board, staff and anybody keen on having the information and abilities to determine work environment clashes. This course covers key subjects crucial to settling clashes. All the data depends on modern logical exploration, and has been effectively applied in the working environment to determine genuine clashes and is introduced in effectively reasonable language. The abilities, devices and information contained in this course are delineated with guides to help you handle the central ideas of compromise. Worksheets, tests, tests and intelligent activities are given to build up and help your learning. What you will realize: Step by step instructions to distinguish the essential drivers of contention inside the work environment The effect of contention in the work environment Step by step instructions to oversee strife in the work environment The significance of positive work environment practices Instructions to distinguish and appropriately resolve relational clashes in the working environment The most effective method to recognize distinctive correspondence styles and what they mean for work environment clashes The abilities expected to address clashes in the work environment Step by step instructions to manage irate individuals in a powerful and quiet way The most effective method to be self-assured and convey your requirements without animosity Instructions to make shared benefit goals which settle clashes and make agreement The most effective method to assume individual liability for compromise Advantages of taking this course: Advance an agreeable work space and lessen pressure in the work environment Have the option to certainly deal with troublesome relational clashes Increment efficiency, assurance and compatibility among partners Fabricate and support productive working connections Increment sympathy and relationship building abilities Taking this course has unmistakable time and asset benefits - lessening the huge time spent in pressure and struggle and supplanting it with the abilities and instruments to cooperate effortlessly.
Communication Techniques for Managers Certification This exhaustive online course covering the subject of correspondence strategies is an extraordinary manner by which to help the supervisors and group pioneers in your business study fruitful correspondence, permitting them to expertly liaise with clients and partners and giving them the certainty to discuss, talk about and resolve struggle in a more powerful way. Enlisted colleagues will discover heaps of down to earth tips, to manage them towards more effective strategies for speaking with their group in an unexpected way, while regarding the diverse correspondence styles of others. It's ideal for existing supervisors or the individuals who have been as of late elevated to the board parts, to set them up for progress. What's Covered in the Course? The course covers a scope of data identifying with effective correspondence from an administration point of view. Here are a portion of the features that your workers can anticipate: The key individual ascribes and characteristics showed by great communicators and how to grow such abilities; The contrast among delicate and hard abilities and how to utilize both to the best benefit, when speaking with your group; The most effective method to deal with a scope of circumstances which may happen in a group and how to utilize correspondence, to beat different issues and resolve struggle; The scope of various sorts of correspondence styles and how to recognize which style is generally suitable in which circumstance and how to adjust your own style, when managing various kinds of individuals and conditions; The ideas of tuning in, stance and tweak when imparting and how to utilize each to the best benefit; Tips on connecting with others well and building a work space that is comprehensive, spurring and enabling for representatives. What are the Benefits of the Course? There are a lot of benefits that your worker and your business can expect by taking the Communication Techniques for Managers Certification course: Your workers will acquire a scope of abilities, to help them in speaking with their groups in the most ideal manner, to serve your business; Because of the measured course structure, your workers can learn at their own speed and on any gadget that suits them; At the point when they effectively complete the course, your representatives will accomplish an industry-perceived testament.
Sorting out an ideal prize framework is simply the most ideal approach to inspire and others to finish assignments. There are two primary sorts of remunerations that individuals will in general utilize: outward rewards and inborn prizes. Understanding the distinction between the fundamental two sorts of remunerations and how they can be applied to all circumstances, including at work and at home, can help you and others to feel more beneficial. This information likewise assists you with trying not to over-reward people for specific undertakings or practices, which quite often misfires. This course furnishes you with complete data in regards to both outward and inherent prizes. It starts by clarifying outward prizes in detail and proceeds onward to depict inborn prizes. The highlights and significant parts of each award are evaluated, assisting with explaining precisely what every one is. The course at that point proceeds onward to cover the manners by which you can utilize extraneous prizes, to persuade yourself as well as other people. At last, the course covers the significance of commendation, mentorship, instruction and criticism. You will Learn: When utilizing extraneous prizes ought to be finished with alert. The highlights that should be available, to expand the estimation of natural prizes. The most effective method to utilize outward prizes to rouse, without it blowing up. The reasons why you should begin with acclaim. Instructions to utilize inherent prizes to rouse yourself as well as other people at home or at work. Why you ought to give freedoms to progression. Advantages of taking this Course Realizing when extraneous prizes are the most impressive inspirations. Understanding when to utilize extraneous prizes and when to utilize inherent prizes. Realizing why you ought to never blend outward and natural prizes. Realizing why giving outward and natural prizes are more propelling than disciplines or negative results. Understanding the advantages of offering moving work to all staff individuals.
Great group control is fundamental in forestalling squashing, episodes of brutality, riots, and other potential occurrences that can happen when an enormous number of individuals are assembled in one spot. This course will diagram key contemplations for those associated with controlling groups or arranging huge scope occasions. It will give direction on keeping the public safe and assembling crisis plans. You Will Learn: The three fundamental periods of an occasion you need to consider when arranging swarm control measures What to do if the quantity of individuals endeavoring to acquire confirmation surpasses the limit of a scene Step by step instructions to guarantee that everybody knows their part in the group control group Instructions to assemble an arrangement to cover each projection Step by step instructions to liaise with outsiders to arrange swarm control Advantages of Taking This Course: On the off chance that you are arranging a huge occasion, this course will assist you with maintaining your duty to guarantee public security On the off chance that you work in an industry that carries you into contact with swarms, like catering, this course will furnish you with significant security data In the event that you work in the security field, this course will give you a short outline of issues in swarm control On the off chance that you are answerable for directing danger evaluations at work, this course will help you lead an appraisal if your business is arranging a huge occasion
Life Coaching Certification This seminar on Life Coaching gives bits of knowledge into the vocation and calling of holistic mentors. Intrigued applicants will find out about what life instructing is and how it can help change the existences of others with difficulties and issues. In this course, you will have the chance to learn: How and why individuals profit by life training and what the interaction of life instructing really includes. Experiences into the importance of central qualities and the impact of restricting convictions on our lives and how life training can help change our reasoning. How you can decide to have practical experience in various kinds of life training relying upon your advantage and tendency and the significant characteristics of an enabling holistic mentor. Significant correspondence and undivided attention abilities that assist you with turning into an incredible holistic mentor. The essentials and basics of life training and how center conviction frameworks direct our reasoning and dynamic cycles. How the cycle of life training in the UK is smoothed out with administrative principles just as clarification of the center morals. Also, you will find out about incredible addressing abilities. The most effective method to utilize incredible addressing abilities to fabricate trust and compatibility with your customers. Step by step instructions to divert your customers' reasoning and help them set game plans to accomplish esteem based objectives. The most effective method to pull in your first customers and how to profile target and forthcoming clients for your life training business. The most effective method to fortify your customer organization and use email showcasing to connect with possible customers. What's more, you will figure out how to set your expenses and installment rates. Advantages of examining the course Whenever you have considered the seminar on Life Coaching, you can anticipate the accompanying advantages: You will be in a situation to assist individuals with breaking down their present lives and assist them with understanding why they feel unmotivated or stuck By posing pertinent and keen inquiries, you can provide guidance to their reasoning and urge them to self-investigate and self-look at their own necessities and wants Your help and direction can help individuals proceed to live more joyful, more extravagant and more significant lives As you help individuals own their objectives, you are probably going to appreciate expanded interest from customers who need to work with you Your sympathetic help will urge individuals to make progress and joy quicker than they may have had the option to do all alone
Overseeing People Your capacity to oversee individuals can make you an effective and enabling pioneer. Individuals the executives abilities permit you to support associations with workers, colleagues, subordinates and bosses with various desires, foundations, encounters and objectives. The vast majority of us go through 8 hours or more grinding away every day, and it's vital to create positive approaches to associate with individuals you work with. Regardless of which job you play in an association, relationship building abilities assist you with getting the best out of everybody and help you offset human cooperations with profitability and execution. What You Will Learn: The significance of individuals the board and how relationship building abilities advantage an association and its workers The impacts of needy individuals the board as far as efficiency, execution, confidence and worker maintenance Indications of needy individuals the executives in an association, including low spirit, helpless maintenance and high staff turnover Individuals the executives abilities, including decency, versatility, correspondence, regard and association Down to earth, valuable and powerful techniques to manage troublesome individuals at work Step by step instructions to establish a comprehensive climate and sustain associations with workers from different foundations The Benefits of This Course: You figure out how to impart and connect in a responsive, positive way, rather than responding hastily You become more mindful personally, pioneer and worker and can relate better to other people You are better prepared to deal with troublesome colleagues or representatives in a really engaging way As a pioneer, you figure out how to appreciate and praise contrasts in context, thinking and thoughts You figure out how to see issues and circumstances from others' perspectives Overseeing individuals successfully empowers you to look for useful approaches to tackle issues, complete things and encourage coordinated effort among colleagues.