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Build Your Project Career in NZ
Now is the time to build your skills, your CV and your project career. Now is a good time for a career change to project management as the economy strengthens.
Your CV
Surveys confirm that getting a new job or your next contract role is helped by having the right certifications. Developing your knowledge will help develop your project career opportunities.
Certifications are one thing that many HR departments and recruiters look for as a guide when considering new candidates. Of course, progression and finding a new role or contract depends on your personality, and competencies and your experience. Often it is difficult to get your skills and motivation across in a CV, and listing a relevant certification helps.
Wellington, Auckland and across NZ
Join our classroom courses in our Wellington training room and our courses in Auckland. We can also deliver all of our courses in your offices anywhere in New Zealnd.
Project Plus is NZ owned and managed.
Accredited Training Company
Project Plus provides training courses in the most popular project management certifications. While we are accredited by APMG International® and by PeopleCert on behalf of AXELOS ™ we are New Zealand owned and managed. We can help you develop your understanding and gain an accreditation in:
- PRINCE2™
- PRINCE2 Agile™
- Managing Successful Programmes MSP™
- Management of Portfolios MoP™
- Better Business Cases™
- APMG International Change Management™
- APMG International Stakeholder Engagement ™
- AgilePM™
The official manuals and exams are all included in our prices and can be booked from our website.
These classroom courses include morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea – so you can focus on learning.
If our classroom dates don’t suit you or you just don’t have the time to study with two, three or five days away from work, we can help you gain your certification through our self paced online study with online exams. You can study PRINCE2, MSP, Better Business Cases, AgilePm, AgileBA, Project Planning and Control or upskill through two Association of Project Management (APM) courses. You will have access to the online study material for 12 months and we courier the official hard copy manuals throughout New Zealand.
Plan to get certified now.
AXELOS™, PRINCE2™, PRINCE2 Agile™, MoP™ and MSP™ are trademarks of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. Better Business Cases™ is a trademark of Her Majesty’s Treasury. All rights reserved. APMG International Change Management™, APMG International Stakeholder Engagement™, AgileBA™, AgilePM™, and Project Planning and Control™ are trademarks of The APM Group limited. All rights reserved.
Project Coordinator Training 2022
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.
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
PRINCE2™, PRINCE2Agile™, MSP™ and MoP™ are trademarks of Axelos Limited. All rights reserved.