Why train? 

Typically more than 30% of projects fail outright and are canceled, while a significant percentage of the remainder struggles to completion with time or budget overruns of nearly 100% . On the other hand, world-class organizations with well trained and experienced PPM staff, complete nearly 90% of their projects within 10% of budget and time estimates.

71% of Heads of Centres of Excellence were fairly or very concerned about a lack of skills and proven approach to project management and risk management in their departments. 53% of Senior Responsible Owners of mission critical and high risk programmes and projects are in their first SRO role and some 13-23% of SROs had not used relevant OGC guidance.

A quick web search identifies sound advice from the National Audit Office and the Office of Government Commerce in why projects and programmes fail.  One of the key factors in successful project or programme case studies is the building of capacity and capability. The Government PPM specialism supports staff that want to make PPM their career but at 2300 there are still too few experienced project and programme managers in government today.

 What does our PPM Training deliver?

 We understand that ‘doing project management' is not the same as delivering a project. All our PPM training therefore focuses on delivery skills, and best practice PPM skills, rather than simply on PPM as a process.

Our training concentrates on the clear understanding of the range of tools, techniques and behaviours which underpin successful programme and project management, and their practical application.  We offer both bespoke and off the-shelf-training in project and programme management that delivers some key differences

    To your staff: 

• Our trainers are all experienced project and programme managers and have a great track record in delivering change in the public sector and making that change stick
• We have real pragmatic experience that cuts through the dry theoretical courses delivered by trainers that do not have our real PPM experience
• We understand the importance of PPM and can make it come to life for your staff through anecdotes and solving their real project problems as we train
• We have OGC MSP practitioners and advanced practitioners and PRINCE2 practitioners in our team and we can show your staff how to align the different approaches and make them work together in real life
• We can tailor our courses for complete teams to make them based on your projects - and usually the team will take back documentation and skills relevant to their projects so they can start applying their new skills immediately
• We use blended learning styles so that no matter what learning style individuals have they all get the best learning from each course

 ....and to your organisation: 

• We understand what works and what does not, we've developed our fair share of PPM methods ourselves and can rapidly tailor our courses to your methodology so that you start to steep your organisation in the benefits of consistent and practical PPM - and this becomes the ‘way that you all work together'
• All of our courses have clear objectives that we agree with you. Your staff evaluation of the benefits from the training will confirm:  
  • skill needs met: individual and organisational skill development needs.
  • skills transferred into the workplace: new/enhanced skills and required behaviours are being transferred and actually applied in the workplace
  • impact on performance: application of the new skills is resulting in positive impact on projects, programmes and organisational performance.  
• We bring you feedback identified by participants during the training and discuss organisational strengths and weakness in PPM so that your organisation can also learn and, if you want, we can help you develop and improve your PPM in house
• We train in soft skills as well as functional PPM skills, improving your staff's ability to deliver change in their projects, their team and their selves
• We coach senior staff and SROs so they can adopt the best leadership style for their teams and use their behaviours to encourage successful behaviours in their staff

We offer the following courses:  

       PPM Delivery Processes and Activities

• Key Principles of PPM
• Project Management
• Planning, Benefits and Outcomes and using Evidence
• Risk Management
• Programme Governance, Roles and Responsibilities
• Stakeholder Management
• Delivery Models & Delivery Partners
• Change Management (scope and transformation)
• Financials, Business Cases and Value for Money
• OGC Gateway Process
• Understanding and applying Lessons Learned
• Programme Documents: Cross-cutting 

        Delivery Skills and Behaviours

• Consultancy Skills
• Facilitation
• Personal Effectiveness
• High Performance Teams
• SRO coaching (1 to 1) 

"As a course for practitioners it exceeded expectations." CLG delegate

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