Professional Development

Please join us for a 2-hour fast paced and fun packed seminar on showing you the simplicity of creating a project. 

It will cover:

• Why Project is so much better than Excel for managing projects
• Understand work breakdown structure and its benefits
• Why Linking tasks puts your schedule in the real world, and why you should never use constraints
• Understand how to use fixed work, duration and units and what effort driven means
• View the all new super cool reports
• Hints, tips and pitfalls to watch out for

We will also give a quick overview of Project Online (Microsoft’s collaboration tool) to help you manage all your team/company’s projects.

Who should attend?

New users to MS Project.  Also existing users who want to see short cuts and the new features of MS Project.

The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in Change Management and Tips for Effective Engagement
Delivered by Tamsin Greulich-Smith

Project Managers are continually faced with the challenges of change management, as the introduction of new projects, processes, and models can result in concern and resistance amongst those affected by the new approach. Understanding the role of stakeholder engagement during the change process can help to smooth the change management experience, resulting in better project outcomes.

During this talk the speaker will share principles for effective stakeholder engagement, drawing upon professional experience gained during more than 20 years delivering transformation and change programmes in complex settings.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the value of stakeholder engagement in effective change management
• Learn the key underpinning principles of effective stakeholder engagement
• Understand how to tailor engagement to different stakeholder groups

Why Every Smart Organization Need Project And Portfolio Management?
Delivered by James Price

Every project and program manager wants their projects to come in on time and within budget. Unfortunately the reality of this still remains problematic, especially as the Singapore economy is expecting some challenging times ahead.

In this fast paced session, we look at Microsoft tools to help you manage your projects and specifically time saving activities. In addition, we look to the near future and see what Microsoft will be doing around the IoT (internet of things) and integrating this with project management. Don’t miss out.

Please join us for a 2-hour seminar covering the most crucial elements of Technopreneurship. The strategy of a technopreneur must be transformed into tactically viable projects for implementation with the right processes to be executed by the right people, and equip them with the right tools/technologies for total productivity and optimization of resources (money, method, manpower, material, minute).

The 2-hour seminar will focus on the 6As of Technopreneurship:

• Awareness - understand the difference between intrapeneur, entrepreneur and technopreneur
• Alignment - technopreneur is a person; technopreneurship is a process to nurture the innovative spirit of an employee who is teachable and can be further developed
• Action - management for effective integration of people, process and tools; leadership for effective execution by converting strategy into projects for successful implementation; technopreneurship for effective innovation by challenging the norm and to transform expensive and sophisticated products/services/solutions into simple and affordable ones
• Adoption - in the era of the VUCA and 4^th industrial revolution, routine work will be replaced by digital work and automation for higher productivity; to stay employable everyone has to adopt a lifelong learning attitude to be accountable for improving and advancing the competency level to cope with the impact of globalization caused by the advent of new technology life cycle
• Assurance - continuous improvements is no longer an option; lean six sigma, reverse innovation, disruptive innovation are all good concepts until it is implementable; the ultimate key performance indicators are universal, i.e. cost, quality, speed, flexibility, delivery promise
• Anticipation - risk is an uncertain event and unavoidable; risk can be transform from threats into opportunities; nevertheless risk response action plan must be planned in advanced to cater for any unforeseen circumstances because technology can become obsolete overnight.

Please join us for a 2-hour seminar on "Riding the Wave of Disruption".  A prelude for the Project Managers (PMs) indicating the perils of the troubled days ahead for Professionals. These days the catalyst of the severe changes that we all face is an outcome of technological innovation. Now traditional job roles are eroding away while new ones are being developed. The best strategy is to ride over the wave of the ‘disruption’. 

Please join us for a 2-hour seminar on the "Project Management Body of Knowledge Sixth Edition" (aka PMBOK6) Update for our members. PMBOK® Guide 6^th Edition was released by PMI in September 2017.  We will look at what’s new, the changes and the updates to this new guide".

PMI has just released PMBOK Guide 6^th edition in Sep 2017 and this guide will be the main text used by the PMP exam starting 26 March 2018.

This seminar will discuss PMBOK® 6 in terms of the new additions and changes to the content structure, Knowledge Area features as well as added harmonization in process groups, tools and techniques.  In addition, the talk will also examine new emphasis in this guide that could point to the future progression and evolution of the project management profession.