Overview: Practical Project Management

The two-hour session will cover the key components of project management and to how to use of project management as a tool to manage people and performance to achieve day to day operational objectives and implement change.

Course Objectives

• To understand the value of using project management methodology in day to day management of activities
• To understand how to initiate, plan, organise and deliver a project
• To gain practical insights into of each of the stages of project management
• To gain insights into change management
• To evaluate project completion and use lessons learned

Course content

• Overview of each stage of the project management cycle
• Review of the use of risks and issues
• Data collection methods
• Change management implications
• Reporting back on project outcomes

Delivery: via Zoom, preparatory reading will be circulated prior to the event.

About the Workshop Leader

Angela Roberts - MBA, BA (Hons), Chartered FCIPD, Angela has over 30 years’ experience in Human Resource Management operating at a senior level in both public and private sector organisations with a track record of delivering major change projects.

She is a strategic thinker, experienced in developing and implementing strategy and policy whilst keeping the individual at the heart of her thinking, helping individuals to develop and reach their full potential.

She has a deep understanding of how organisations work and how individuals function in the workplace and has worked with companies to improve organisational performance whilst creating the right environment and culture to enable individuals to grow and perform to the very best of their ability.

Angela runs her own HR Consultancy business which she set up in 2013 and now employs seven people providing support to over 100 companies across the Midlands. Angela has lectured on the Charter Institute of Personnel Management qualification and currently coaches individual students through the programme at levels 3, 5 and 7. She has delivered apprenticeship programmes in operational management at levels 3 and 5 and supported students to achieve their CMI qualification.