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Project Coordinator Training 2022

November 27, 2019/in News, Training Course Updates /by David Peddie

Build your career as a Project Coordinator. Join our next Project Coordinator training course and gain our Certificate in Project Coordination to help you build your project career. By completing this certification you will develop your specific skills and knowledge and provide a solid grounding for your future.

The certificate is gained by participating in our Skills and Knowledge project management training courses and then completing an online assessment successfully. The assessment requires an 80% pass mark and reflecting the quality of the training course material and of our trainer’s abilities our successful pass rate is 100%.

The next dates for these courses are listed below. You should start with the Project Coordination Skills course. The other courses can be spread out over the next few months to suit your workload. All courses are one day unless stated otherwise.

Course Name	Start Date
WELLINGTON
Project Coordination Skills	4 July and 15 August
Project Management Skills & Knowledge (2 days)	5/6 July and 17/18 August
Managing Multiple Priorities	20 June, 7 July and 19 August
Project Planning and Control Skills & Knowledge	23 June
Project People Skills & Knowledge	8 July
Microsoft Project 2013/2016/2019 (1.5 days)

AUCKLAND
Project Coordination Skills	19 July and 26 October
Project Management Skills & Knowledge (2 days)	19/20 July and 26/27 October
Project People Skills & Knowledge	22 July
Managing Multiple Priorities	21 July and 28 October

All of these courses will be held in our training room on Level 1, Radio New Zealand House, 155 The Terrace, Wellington. Tel 04 495 9100 or in the Auckland CBD

The certification is completed with a MS Project course booked through Project Plus and delivered by Ace Training in their office at 89 The Terrace, Wellington or in Parnell. Then you have to pass an online assessment.

If you wish to register please email info@projectplus.co.nz and we will do the necessary, confirming dates with you and sorting out an invoice for your organisation.

Please don’t forget to tell us if you have any special dietary requirements or preferences when you register and if you want to be added to our monthly training newsletter.

We continually review and update our course content and all courses are supported with full documentation. Our trainers are all accredited by PeopleCert to deliver PRINCE2™ , PRINCE2 Agile™, Managing Successful Programmes MSP™ and Management of Portfolios MoP™ training courses.

Three of the courses in the Certificate are detailed below.

Project Coordination Skills & Knowledge.

This one-day course is designed for people new or relatively new to project coordination or project administration. The course covers:

The roles and responsibilities of the Project Coordinator
How to manage scope change through change control processes
The role of the Project Coordinator as scheduler and cost controller
The importance of tracking risk and quality through maintaining registers
The importance of stakeholder management
Registers, report and minute taking

Project Management Skills & Knowledge

This two-day course is ideal for Project Coordinators and Advisors, new Project Managers or Project Managers with no formal project management training and for managers or project team members who need to understand project management. This is our core “how to” project management course. The course will equip you with a set of tools immediately applicable in the workplace, taking you through the stages of a project. The course modules include roles and responsibilities, project initiation, planning, execution and closure. The course contents do not reflect any specific framework so it is useful for everyone.

Project People Skills

This interactive People Skills training course provides insight and practical approaches to help you work well in a project team.

This course covers:

What makes a strong, diverse project team?
Leveraging power, relationships and emotional intelligence
The communication imperative
Managing conflict
Collaborative decision making
Project team closure

You will learn:

How to develop a strong and diverse project team
The importance of influencing skills and emotional intelligence
How to create effective communication plans
How to resolve project team conflict
Collaborative decision making and supporting tools to achieve this
How to run effective meetings
Closure processes for a project team

Management of Portfolios MoP™ Training Course

July 8, 2019/in News /by Project Plus

The MoP (Management of Portfolios) training course developed by AXELOS™ provides a set of principles, techniques and practices to introduce or re-energise portfolio management. MoP helps organisations consistently answer the fundamental question: Are we sure these investments are the best for us and will they help us achieve our strategic objectives?

Portfolio management helps organisations make decisions about which are the most efficient projects and programmes to take the organisation forward to deliver their strategies. While project and programme management is concerned with managing projects well, portfolio management is concerned with choosing to implement the right projects.

MoP defines portfolio management as: “A coordinated collection of strategic processes and decisions that together enable the most effective balance of organisational change and business as usual.” MoP is a good framework that enables organisations to allocate budgets when there are competing demands.

Portfolio management builds on, and better coordinates, existing processes such as strategic planning, investment appraisal and project and programme management. Portfolio management is not concerned with the detailed management of these projects and programmes; rather, it’s value is in helping organisations to choose which projects and programmes to select and support to deliver the organisational objectives.

Unlike most methods, all portfolio management principles, cycles and practices are used at the same time, though at varying levels of intensity, depending on the organisation and the environment in which it works.

We offer MoP training courses in Wellington throughout the year.

The Importance of Professional Development

May 6, 2019/in News /by David Peddie

The Importance Of Professional Development

“The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them.” – Zig Ziglar

It is no secret that employees are a hugely important factor in the success of any organisation. In his recent article for Forbes, Kevin Lynch argues that employees are ‘the key to taking any organisation from the ordinary to the extraordinary’ and thus investing in their development is paramount to success.

Kevin Lynch is President and CEO at National Industries for the Blind in the USA and, like many other executives, has recognised the value of professional development for both companies and for employees. Lynch argues that there are four key ways to utilise professional development:

1.) Invest In Your Best Resource — Your Employees.
Employees are in a unique position when it comes to institutional knowledge and experience of the organisation they work for and can be a valuable resource in learning where the company can improve. Gaining feedback can help in the creation of a professional development plan that accurately responds to employee needs.

2.) Create An Environment For Employee Growth.
A combination of professional training and on the job learning experiences can help employees achieve their full potential and find professional fulfilment.

3.) Expand Employee Development As Part Of The Overall Culture.
Investing in professional development is a great way of showing employees you value them and creating a culture of learning.

4.) Remember Organizations Succeed When Employees Succeed.
In their 9^th Global Project Management Survey, PMI found that organisations that prioritise the development of technical skills are 20% more like to complete projects on time and on budget, and meet original goals and business intent.

Knowing where to begin can be difficult. Project Plus offer specialised training in project and change management, with public courses in Wellington, online courses and in-house training delivered at a location to suit you. Please get in touch with us at info@projectplus.co.nz or on 04 495 9100 to discuss training opportunities.

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Get accredited with PRINCE2™ Foundation and Practitioner

May 5, 2019/in News /by Project Plus

We offer PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner training courses in Auckland and Wellington, we offer a self paced online option and we can deliver this course in-house anywhere in New Zealand.

You can also join our PRINCE2 Agile™ classroom courses in Auckland and Wellington. Full details of our training courses can be found by clicking here.

PRINCE2 is a process-based methodology for effective project management. PRINCE2 contains a complete set of concepts and project management processes, including:

Starting up a Project
Directing a Project
Initiating a Project
Controlling a Stage
Managing Product Delivery
Managing a Stage Boundary
Closing a Project

A PRINCE2 qualification is a great asset to you and will help gain recognition of your CV. The knowledge you gain studying for the certification exams will provide you with the skills to work on any project that uses the PRINCE2 framework. A 2016 AXELOS PRINCE2 survey found that 88% of certificate holders consider PRINCE2 to have been valuable to their career.

All PRINCE2 certification holders are entered in the official PRINCE2 Successful Candidate Register by PeopleCert, the sole provider of AXELOS examination and accreditation services. This register can be accessed online, making it easy to confirm the validity of your qualification. Project Plus is an Accredited Training Organisation. We are accredited by Peoplecert on behalf of AXELOS.

Our prices for online and classroom courses include all materials and the AXELOS exams which are managed by PeopleCert. Our classroom courses are fully catered with morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch to let you focus on your learning and understanding.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Awareness Training

May 2, 2019/in News /by Joanna Dibley

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union. The GDPR seeks to give all EU residents the right to know and control the use, storage, transfer, and deletion of their personal data. This regulation came into force on the 25th of May 2018 and applies to any New Zealand organisation that sells goods or services to citizens of the EU, and any organisation that processes or monitors the personal data of EU residents.

GDPR has implications for many organisations, in the EU and abroad. We offer an online GDPR Awareness Training course to assist organisations develop your compliance. This course explains the reasons for the regulation, and the scope of its application, and identifies the key participants in the processing of personal data and their responsibilities. Key principles are covered, and the risks and opportunities, complete with examples. Gaining this certification from APMG will help indicate that you have taken the steps to understand the implications and that a minimum level of knowledge is in place across the business.

This online course takes approximately four hours to complete and is followed by a multiple choice exam.

Project Management Training Courses in New Zealand

May 1, 2019/in News /by Project Plus

You can join our project management training courses in Wellington to improve your project management skills and obtain certification. We provide professional development throughout the year with courses in our Wellington office on The Terrace. We offer a wide choice of certification courses. These include PRINCE2™, PRINCE2 Agile ™, Managing Successful Programmes MSP™, Better Business Cases ™ and Management of Portfolios (MoP™).

New courses include:

APMG International Change Management™

APMG International Stakeholder Engagement™

AgilePM™

AgileSHIFT™

Certificate in Project Coordination.

Our Certificate in Project Coordination is well regarded by many people who have gone on to develop a strong career in projects. The training courses which make up the Certificate will suit you if you are new to project management of if you already have some experience.

Project management training in your premises across New Zealand.

We can deliver all of our courses and workshop for your teams in your premises and we can tailor our delivery to include your own policies and procedures when appropriate. We also offer Project SRO training.

If you want more information please call us on 04 495 9100 or 09 415 1035. We would love to talk to you and answer any of your questions and help you to find out what training would best suit you.

PRINCE2™, PRINCE2 Agile™, MSP™, MoP™ and AgileSHIFT™ are trademarks of Axelos Limited. All rights reserved. Better Business Cases™ is a trade mark of Her Majesty’s Treasury. All rights reserved. APMG International Change Management™ and APMG International Stakeholder Engagement™ are trade marks of the APM Group. All rights reserved. AgilePM™ is a trade mark of the Agile Business Consortium Ltd. All rights reserved.

Managing Successful Programmes Training Course

May 8, 2018/in News /by Project Plus

Managing Successful Programmes (MSP^™) is the most popular programme management training course.

MSP helps with the successful delivery of transformational change. It is recognised as key to enabling organisations to manage change, MSP is being used and adopted more and more within both public and private sectors.

The MSP framework is based on three core concepts:
MSP Principles. These are derived from positive and negative lessons learned from programme experiences. They are the common factors that underpin the success of any transformational change.
MSP Governance Themes. These define an organisation’s approach to programme management. The help an organisation to put in place the right leadership, delivery team, organisation structures and controls, giving the best chance for success.
MSP Transformational Flow. This provides a route through the lifecycle of a programme from its conception through to the delivery of the new capability, outcomes and benefits.

The MSP framework is especially useful in today’s climate where organisations are constantly adapting to or leading change. Organisations must learn how to adapt and transform themselves through effective leadership and strategic control in order to survive and prosper. Programme management enables organisations to manage that transformation. Where there is major change there will be complexity, risk, many interdependencies to manage and conflicting priorities to resolve. MSP provides a structured framework and approach to programme management that can help organisations avoid pitfalls and achieve their goals.

Gaining a certification in Managing Successful Programmes at Foundation level can be achieved in three days, with Practitioner being able to be gained in a further two days. We deliver MSP training courses in Wellington and Auckland throughout the year. For more information and to register for our training course click here

We also deliver this course for clients on your premises. To discuss this option please get in touch with us at info@projectplus.co.nz or telephone 04 495 9100.

See Programme Management Skills for a Project Manager

PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner Certification

May 8, 2018/in News /by Project Plus

PRINCE2 Agile ™ is a forward-thinking certification blending the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the defined governance of PRINCE2™. It is designed to help you to tailor management controls to encompass using agile tools. This certification will help you to understand PRINCE2 governance requirements, agile concepts and techniques and the interface between them. This course is certified through AXELOS™.

PRINCE2 Agile is the perfect certification for anyone who delivers projects in an agile context. The certification will help you combine agile concepts with one of the world’s most popular approaches to project management, PRINCE2.

The PRINCE2 Agile certification follows the same structure as PRINCE2, with Foundation being completed over three days and Practitioner being completed over two days – each with an exam upon conclusion. The PRINCE2 Agile Foundation course has no prerequisites so is perfect for team members who work on projects that use PRINCE2 with agile tools. In order to sit PRINCE2 Practitioner with Project plus you must gain the Foundation certification.

To discuss in-house delivery options or any queries please get in touch with us at info@projectplus.co.nz or 04 495 9100.

Full details can be found here

Project Plus PMO of the Year 2017 – Foodstuffs North Island

September 21, 2017/in News /by David Peddie

The winner of the 2017 Project Plus PMO of the Year Award is Foodstuffs North Island. The award was announced and presented at the PMINZ Annual Conference which was held in Christchurch on 21 September. This followed a detailed evaluation by an independent panel of judges.

The PMO at Foodstuffs, North Island, has increased the success of their company’s projects and programmes. The PMO is the custodian of the strategic agenda of Foodstuffs and supports the execution of Foodstuffs’ strategy by increasing the visibility of their project portfolio, by effective prioritisation and by enabling robust decision making around their investments. They are accountable.

The Project Management Office (PMO) of the Year award recognises a Project, Programme or Portfolio Management Office that has increased the success of their organisation’s projects or programmes.

This year the three finalists were ACC, Foodstuffs North Island and Safe Roads PMO, NZTA.

Project Plus has already signed up to be the sponsor of the 2018 PMO of the Year Award. We have sponsored this award since it’s inception five years ago.

The PMINZ Annual Conference is the highlight of the year for project professional in New Zealand. In 2018 the conference will be held in Auckland.

More about the PRINCE2 2017 refresh

August 3, 2017/in News /by David Peddie