Internalizing a Project Discipline 

Internalizing a Project Discipline contains courses, consulting support days, and technology tools designed to transfer the highest levels of project management knowledge to selected resources in your organization.  This training package helps your organization internalize the project management process by transferring high-level project management knowledge to internal project management resources and change agents.   (Click on the course title below to see a detailed course outline from our website, where available.)

Project Management Facilitation Skills
A highly intensive five-day skills practice course in which the critical project management facilitation skills used by Cornelius & Associates' consultants are taught to identified project management change agents in the organization. 

Starting a Project Management Office
A two-day overview of the steps needed to start and manage an internal project management office in your organization, including planning exercises.

Advanced Project Management Skills
Covers advanced topics in project management, program management, and portfolio management in a two-day workshop.

Electronic Process Maps and Toolbox 
A site license to allow unlimited use of detailed process maps for all phases of the project management process, including forms, templates, communication plans, training plans and other aids for use by your internal project management experts.  These are the same process maps and tools used by Cornelius & Associates' project management consultants. 

Benefits of Implementing Internalizing a Project Discipline 

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Internalizing the Project Discipline creates internal project management experts and facilitators; and therefore decreases the reliance on outside experts

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The courses in this phase help further transform the organization’s culture to a team-based, project-based organization, driven by internal change agents

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Provides your organization access to mapped processes, documents, forms, templates, and other tools that help ensure a standard, repeatable process that is easy to follow

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Introduces your organization to the concept of a project management office; which is the ultimate vehicle for developing world-class project development, planning, and execution. 

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Increased project leadership skill levels of key managers

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Improves the way your organization carries out program management

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Improves the way your organization carries out portfolio management

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Improves the manner in which resources are assigned and managed across projects 

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Moves the organization to even higher levels of project management sophistication and project execution

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Further reduces the total costs of implementing projects

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Further increases the likelihood of hitting milestone dates and bringing projects in on time

Deliverables to Your Organization

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Intensive practice in the skills needed to become internal consultants who will help others in the organization initialize, organize, start and manage projects, as described in the course syllabus for Project Management Facilitation Skills

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Understand the basic principles of program management, portfolio management, and other topics, as described in the course syllabus for Advanced Project Management

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Understand the rationale and the steps involved in How to Develop and Maintain a Project Management Office, as defined in course syllabus

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Coaching instruction for people identified as internal Project Management change agents

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Follow-up on-site audit and coaching days to further mentor internal project management change agents

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Knowledgeable instructors who can give sound answers to participant questions

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A high level of flexibility and customer responsiveness from both the instructors and the account manager

Scope of Services

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5-days training in Project Facilitation Skills, includes one instructor for 5 days and an additional coach for 4 days

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1-day planning and 3-days follow-up observation, coaching and mentoring of internal project management experts

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2-days of training in Advanced Project Management Skills

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2-days training in How to Develop and Maintain a Project Management Office

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Site license for unlimited use of Cornelius & Associates’ process maps, documents, templates, charters, communication plans, training plans and other project management aids, packaged electronically on a master CD-ROM.

Call 800.200.1104 or email info@corneliusassoc.com today to find out how Cornelius & Associates can help your organization Internalize Project Discipline!

 

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