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This distance learning course is designed to assist you to understand project and matrix management and to be able to develop an effective project plan including all aspects from assembling the best project team, budgeting and resource allocation, scheduling, managing project risk, predicting success, cost reporting and analysis and handling conflicts with line departments, upper management and customers.

Who Should Take This Course?

• Training Managers and Assistant Managers
• Department Managers
• Human Resource Managers
• Financial Managers
• Operations Managers
• Plant Managers
• Anyone who has been or is likely to be asked to undertake a cross-departmental project.
• Anyone, at any management level, who would like to have a better understanding of project or matrix management.


Course Outline:
Part 1 - Role and Importance of project management (Chapter 1)
         - Decision-making process and methods to analyse problems
         - Systems and concepts for problem analysis (Chapter 2)
         - The concept of organizational structure (Chapter 3)
         - Static and dynamic structures
           Assignment No. 1

Part 2 - Managerial functions and styles
         - Staffing, training conflicts,
         - Implementation of changes (Chapters 4,5,7,8)
         Assignment No. 2

Part 3 - Planning of a project (Chapter 11)
         - Basic problems to solve operations management
         - Problems (Chapter 12) – Network flow, models, PERT,
           scheduling problems
        - Applications
        Assignment No. 3 – Term Project

Course Assignments

Assignment No 1
Provide solutions to two (2) of three (3) case studies which will be provided

Assignment No. 2
Provide an analysis of tasks, environment, structure, functions and
management style within your department or organization.

Assignment No. 3
This assignment is based on your reading and experience.  The
important factor is to relate theory to practice.  Submit a report in
which you present a typical project plan operated within your
company or organization.

Your Certificate of Completion will be sent to you upon receipt by us
of your last assignment.

Length of Course

This course is designed to be completed in one three-month term, however, you may begin at any time.  Your completion date will be three months from the time that we receive your course registration. You will receive a welcome letter from your instructor along with assignment completion dates and other course information.  You may communicate by email at anytime with the instructor.
 

Valuable Resource
The course text will become a valuable resource to assist you in developing and managing project plans and cross-departmental projects within your own organization.

Course Tuition
 Tuition for the course is $275. USD or equivalent. Tuition does not include the cost of any textbooks recommended within the course.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Registration
Click on Registration Form in the box below.  This will take you to the registration form. Print the form off, complete it and mail it with your company check/cheque. Tuition may also be paid by credit card online. We use the secure server of RegSoft.com to process these payments.

Please confirm your registration by email or fax a copy of the completed Registration Form to us at 1-800-282-6299 (toll free in Canada and the USA).

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