Project Management 02: Core Skills

Duration:  51 minutes plus 20 minutes activities

Overview: This course is about core skills utilised by project managers. We revisit each of the four stages of project management and identify the core skill required in each stage.

• Initiation: Creating a business case
• Planning: Developing a project plan
• Execution: Building an effective project team
• Closure: Wrap-up a project for success

Each part outlines a range of frameworks, processes and insights to help explain best practices and avoid common mistakes.

Why is this course important? Being a great project manager is more than just having technical skills in your area of expertise. Project managers need additional skills in managing projects, including people skills, productivity skills and planning skills. This course uncovers the core skills required by all project managers and serves as a great introduction ahead of more detailed topics in this series.

Suitable for: All employees. It assumes a basic understanding of project management and the stages of a project (covered in Project Management 1: Overview of this series).

This is course 2 of 13 in a series of courses on project management.

Online Assessment: None

Workplace Activities: Yes

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