Private One-on-One Personal Instruction: How it works
Begin whenever you wish and study when it fits your schedule with no time limits. Your personal instructor, a certified PM with 10+ years of industry experience, guides you 1-to-1 through the course. We don’t put you in a chat room with 100 other students. Instead, your instructor answers all your questions directly and privately and gives you feedback and coaching on every assignment. You can email your instructor directly or schedule a private phone conference whenever you wish. You get to know your instructor and receive coaching for a year after your course ends.
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Course Materials & Instructor Interaction |
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Managing Construction Projects: Advanced Techniques
by Dick Billows, PMP, GCA
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Read about how a project manager plans with multiple customer executives about requirements, budget and duration. Read the correct way to ask questions and pin the customer expectations down. Then see the estimating and risk management process and how the PM develops risk mitigation plans. Next you learn how to motivate a team, make clear assignments tailored to each subcontractor and resolve conflicts. Last you see how to track progress and solve problems and make status reports. |
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Lectures When it Fits Your Schedule... No Time Limits
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Dick Billows, PMP, GCA expands on the ideas in your reading with real world examples drawn from his 20 years of experience as a project and program manager. Dick explains techniques for dealing with large customer groups, difficult team members and contractors. Dick also takes you through the process of "selling" the project and your plan to the customer and deal with their objections and changes. Then you go through the best practice steps in estimating, risk management, creating dynamic schedules in MS® Project, modeling alternatives, managing conflict, using earned value analysis, and controlling scope. Watch the lectures whenever and as often as you wish with no time limits. They're a great ongoing reference. |
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3. PMs in Action Videos: Assess Their Work
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At the end of each module, you'll watch a video of a project manager estimating with their team, working with poor performers and planning with a customer executive. Then evaluate the PM's work . Submit your analysis to your instructor and get written feedback and discussion about the right way to handle the situations. |
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4. Practice Every Technique with 1-to-1 Coaching
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Practice all the techniques in 14 case study-based assignments and in private 1-to-1 role playing simulations with your instructor.You will gather requirements from customers, negotiate with managers and present your plans and MS Project® schedules. Then you move on to assignments to track actual performance, use earned value to assess variances and plan corrective actions to solve problems.
You'll present your estimates of work and duration and your risk management plan and risk responses. You'll have to persuade the tough audience of executives that your plan is the way to go.
You'll receive 1-to-1 feedback and coaching from your instructor on every assignment. |
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Sharpen Your People Skills in Role Playing Presentations |
Handling difficult interpersonal situations is a key project manager skill. Our expert PMs give you practice and coaching to enhance your skill. You'll make presentations to tough audiences, meet with difficult executives, coach team members with performance problems and motivate people in meetings. You'll also learn how to answer tough questions from executives. Practice all these skills with your instructor in private, 1-to-1 live session over the Web. You get on-the spot coaching and feedback to help you improve. |
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PMs with:
Management Skills to:
 Identify problems early
Estimate time & cost accurately
Anticipate and avoid risks
People Skills to:
Gain buy-in
Tame conflicts
Meet stakeholder expectations
Highlights:
Build on your construction and basic project management skills, working 1-to-1 with one of our expert project managers who guides you through readings, lectures and 3 increasingly challenging construction project case studies.
Your instructor gives you personal feedback on all your work, role plays meetings with you, answers all your questions directly and privately by phone/email.
Student Comments
"I am a person that is not very easily impressed. In my business I deal with many people internally and externally that claim a lot of things. As far as Mr. Billows goes what he delivered greatly exceeded what he advertised. On the introduction to the course Dick says 'You won't learn this course from this disk you will learn this course from me."
“The feedback was like an ongoing conversation with a friendly senior PM who had seen it all.”
.....Vincent Friske, Limak Technology LLC |
