Business Management Skills for Project Managers

MDP115 - Business Management Skills for Project Managers

Course description
Project managers are in a position to influence the financial performance of their organizations. Project managers also have a need to communicate the value of their projects to senior managers in a common language. This course helps project managers understand common business financial terms, and assess how their projects influence organizational performance.

Who should attend
Project and program managers who want to increase their effectiveness by gaining a better understanding of the language of business.

What you will achieve

• The ability to communicate project parameters, such as scope, cost and schedule, in business terms


• A deeper understanding of your projects impact on your business or organization


• More effective communication with key stakeholders in your organization


• A greater understanding of the financial value of your project


• An improved understanding of the financial impacts of typical project decisions on scope, cost, and schedule.

What you will learn

• How Does a Business Run? - Using a combination of lecture, case study and simulation tools, you will define the basic business cycle, cash flow, investments and returns and related business terminology


• How Does a Business Measure Success? - define three critical financial reports, their contents, and what purpose they serve


• How Do Investors Measure Success? - define common financial analysis metrics and how they measure value and success for investors


• How Does Your Project Impact the Business? - how project cost and schedule changes impact return on investment


• Basic Financial Modeling - how to use an investment spreadsheet to conduct financial sensitivity analysis


• Building a Business Case for Your Project - how to capture costs and benefits and assess the financial impact on the business unit


• Selling Your Project - how to quantify the value of your project in financial terms and communicate the value to the management team to secure approval


• Assessing the Financial Impacts of Project Decisions - how to use financial measures to make better business decisions.

• Accelerating Product Development Using Project Management
• Advanced IT Project Management
• Advanced Project Scheduling
• Advanced Purchasing Strategies sup sm sup
• Advanced Strategic Planning
• BPM Professional Certification Practicum - Conducting an Analysis and Design Project
• Building Cultural Intelligence
• Business Writing for Results
• Certificate in Applied Project Management Days
• Certificate in Applied Project Management Evenings
• Chartering Teams to High Performance
• Coaching for Business Results
• Commercializing New Products and Services Rapidity and Results
• Communicating with Influence Building Successful Interpersonal Team Communication
• Design For Six Sigma Service
• Developing a Project Management Office
• Developing Into a Powerful Leader
• Directing Teams to Finesse Team Facilitation and Coaching
• Driving Performance Through Emotional Intelligence
• Effective Project Leadership
• Finance Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
• Getting Our Message Across Strategies for More Effective and Confident Public Speaking
• How To Achieve Results Through Influencing
• How to Purchase Services
• Improving Purchasing Performance - Developing New Skills for A Changing Profession
• Improving Supervisory Management Skills
• Improving Your Presentation Skills
• Improving Your Purchasing Negotiating Skills sup sm sup
• Information Gathering and Facilitation for Business Processes
• Introduction to Business Process Management for Business Analysts
• Introduction to Business Process Management for Project Managers
• Introduction to Business Process Modeling Analysis and Design
• Leadership Excellence in a Complex World
• Leading Managing Successful Teams
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Listening to Influence Getting More Out of Conversations
• Making Your Ideas Theirs Advanced Communication Strategies
• Management Planning The Bridge Between Strategic Direction and Project Implementation
• Managing a Business Process Project
• Managing Generational Differences Piloting and Motivating the New Work Force
• Managing Information Technology IT Projects
• Managing Successful Negotiations
• Managing Troubled Projects
• Maximizing Global Success Designing and Managing Remote Operations
• Newly Appointed Managers
• Peer Mentoring A practical approach to knowledge transfer
• Positive Assertive Management
• Preparing for the PMP Exam
• PRINCE2 Foundation
• PRINCE2 Overview
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Principles of Business Process Management
• Principles of Project Management Business Analysis
• Principles Techniques of Project Management
• Program Management Managing in the Complex Multiple Project Environment
• Project Communications Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Framework and Integration Management
• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Management Earned Value Management Systems Methods EVMS
• Project Management Fast Track
• Project Management for Everyone A non-technical approach
• Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2003
• Project Planning and Control
• Project Procurement Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Time Management
• Relationship Management Up Down and Sideways
• Seven Steps to Improved Work Flows
• Simulation of Real World Project Management
• Situational Leadership - Twelve O Clock High
• Situational Leadership The Core
• Six Sigma Champions Training
• Strategic Alignment of the Project Portfolio
• Strategic Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Leaders
• Strategic Marketing Concepts Strategies
• Strategic Thinking Planning and Deployment
• Strategies for Managing Change Managing People in a Changing Environment
• Strengthening Effectiveness Across Organizational Boundaries
• The 5 Management Essentials for New Managers and Supervisors
• The Legal Aspects of Purchasing sup sm sup
• Time Management Survival Skills
• Understanding Managing Conflict
• Understanding Working with People