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Managing Business Projects Effectively

Increased productivity, reduced stress, greater confidence; these are some of the benefits of gaining control of your projects and your project team. This two-day course provides practical skills which enable you to better manage all aspects of your business projects and increase your team's performance by utilising effective communication skills.

The workshop provides you with the relevant tools and techniques that you will need to manage your projects or participate on project teams more successfully.

Outline

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand the five phases of Project Management and a project manager's role in each phase
• Write clearly defined project statements and clarify project objectives with measurable outcomes
• Use techniques for planning, sequencing and executing project activities
• Use techniques for monitoring and controlling deviation from budgets and schedules
• Implement key elements of project management communications and reporting tools
• Identify basic project success criteria and common reasons for project failure
• Clarify roles and responsibilities to improve team performance and accountability
• Run productive project meetings for planning, brainstorming, status update and problem solving
• Build, motivate and lead a high performing project team
• Communicate effectively with the project team, management and clients
• Close the project formally with proper documentation
• Learning Review and Action Planning

Who should attend

This workshop is appropriate for participants who are planning to lead a project (primary audience) or serve on a project team (secondary audience).

Methodology

- Mini-lectures
- Discussions/presentations
- Case studies/role plays
- Individual exercises
- Group activities

Profile of Dr. Lim Yew Ban

PhD, MBus(IT), B.Eng, BCCE, ACTA

Dr Lim Yew Ban has worked in engineering, recruitment, sales, data centre operations, management of a training centre, training and consultancy. His roles in these organizations run the gamut of technical production line supervision and troubleshooting, managing the P&L of departments, recruitment of IT professional for clients and dealing with general day-to-day operational issues. He was responsible to implement the transfer of a new product line from US to Singapore operations while working as an engineer with an American MNC.

He had conducted 2 nation-wide surveys under the auspices of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). The analysis and survey findings were published by SIM as - Computer Security & Practices in Singapore 1994: Survey Findings and Computer Security and Practices in Singapore 1999: Research Monograph of Findings.

Professionally Yew Ban holds a Business Continuity Certified Expert (BCCE) professional certification and has been involved in consultancy and training – both public seminars and customized in-house certification courses for private and public sector organizations in business continuity and disaster recovery since 2005. Participants in public seminars range from senior to mid-level managers from Middle East, India and Asean regions.

Dr Lim holds teaching pedagogy / methodology certificate, and also the Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA).

He is also actively engage in teaching post graduate and doctoral level courses as well as supervision of doctoral candidates.