Foundations of Project Management (2days)

This session is being offered in collaboration with the MITACS Step program. Mitacs Step offers a holistic, inter-disciplinary approach to professional skills development. The workshops that are offered provide practical tools in business, communications, and project management through experiential learning from industry professionals in an interactive environment, arming graduate students for success within or beyond academia.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This is a two-day workshop (Tue, Mar 5 & Wed, Mar 6, 2013) and participants must commit to attending both days to register.

Learn to plan and work with others to get things done! We encourage you to take this opportunity to experience firsthand the power of effective project management! From academia to industry to your personal life, these skills will help you succeed. 

All students in the Mitacs network are invited to attend this two-day Project Management Workshop. You will learn to fine-tune your ability to organize and complete your work and research.
 

Learning Outcomes:

Learning teams of approximately five people each will be formed at the beginning of this session and will work together throughout the session.  This will enable the participants to enhance their learning from each other, to experience the development of a strong team, and to develop a model of the culture that they will want to create in their projects.

Day 1:

• Forming new teams and learning from team members past experience
• Principles of project management and team building
• Understanding self and others using the Strength Deployment Inventory, a self-scoring questionnaire that identifies, motivations, personal strengths in relating, causes of stress or conflict and each individual’s typical response to conflict
• Creating a team agreement on practices and processes that will enhance their work together

Day 2

• Techniques and tools to increase team effectiveness at decision making
• Project planning concepts
• Using Critical Path Method (CPM) to schedule project activities
• Collaborative project planning - teams will follow an interactive agenda to develop plans for selected projects
• Risk assessment on the projects planned
• Review and discussion of learning

About the Presenter:

Gary Robinson is president of E.M. Sciences Ltd, a manage-ment consulting firm formed in 1975 to meet the needs of project-oriented businesses.  Specific services include organization development and culture change, management training and coaching, collaborative project planning, work redesign, team building and project partnering processes, project management critique, strategic planning, conflict resolution and continuous productivity and quality improvement.  The purpose of his consulting is to increase the productivity of teams, organizations, and managers in ways that will also improve the quality of working life for people in the organization.

Gary has a M.Sc. in Engineering and a M.Sc. in Organization Development.  Partly as a result of his first career as an engineering manager, most of his work is done with projects or with companies whose services and products are delivered as projects.  His clients in Canada, the United States, England, Australia, India and Korea have included engineering companies, architectural firms, contractors, manufacturers, federal and provincial governments and crown corporations, city governments, high tech research and development firms, software design companies, oil companies, universities, hospitals, community agencies, and a variety of voluntary organizations.

He is a Registered Professional Organization Development consultant (RODP) in the International Organization Development Institute, a member of the Project Management Institute, and a Professional Engineer with the Association of Profes¬sional Engineers of B.C.

Registration:

We have a limited number of spaces available for this workshop. Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email from the PDFO two weeks prior to the session start date.

Registration is required. Please register online.

Please note, in registering you are agreeing to attend both sessions.