Managing People in Projects
Benefits
- Use people management skills to maximise value in every project
- Create a fully rounded professional with requisite skills and qualities
- Bring together the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills of project management in a coherent and integrated way
- Live your corporate brand in the way you manage your projects
Issue
Our client, a global strategic consulting firm whose client base is made up of national governments and some of the world’s leading companies and organisations, asked JSB to provide people-in-projects management training to support its high potential staff as they become more senior and take on more responsibilities. This training needs to be integrated as a two day event in a portfolio of high quality seminars addressing the career progression of key staff. As most of its business is conducted on a project basis, this training is central to commercial success.
Our approach
We adopt a four stage approach to ensuring full integration with our client:
- We immerse ourselves in researching who our client is and how they operate; we talk to a cross-section of people to get a feel for the culture and personality of the client, research client mission and strategic goals and seek to understand how corporate behaviour is influenced by corporate values
- To enable effective course design, JSB takes a full brief on what the client wants to achieve, originates training materials based on the reality of the work the client performs and the challenges it faces, and ensures a close fit between what JSB designs and client objectives
- In delivery we harmonise with our clients style and approach, relating what happens to how far it fits with the client’s brand, values and ‘how we do things here’
- We manage our relationship with the client with a dedicated team who know this client well. JSB holds regular reviews of the service it provides and keeps abreast of changes and developments in the client organisation
The outcome
Participants leave with:
- concensus on the skills and qualities of the ‘complete’ project manager
- understanding of how to ‘live the brand’ in the way they manage people in projects
- knowledge of three dimensions of people management in projects
- ability to delegate, motivate and give feedback in practice
- a toolkit of how to manage conflict in the workplace
Talk to us about how we can tailor such a programme to suit your organisation.
Call +44 (0)20 8371 7017 or complete our online enquiry form.
