Advanced Project Management (USM)

Prerequisites: Effective Project Management; Implementing Project Management

Three Thursdays: May 3, 10 & 17, 2012

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

University of Southern Maine

Abromson Community Education Center

88 Bedford Street, Portland

$510 -- plus $35 materials

The first two courses in the USM Project Management Certificate Series are necessarily "broad-brush" treatments to introduce coordinated sets of practices for project management as a system, and for the challenge of implementing it in the workplace.

A number of project managers, having worked with those practices, are interested in going deeper into the management of high-demand areas of the process. In Advanced Project Management, a three-day seminar-style course, participants share knowledge gained in employing practices of the first two courses and learn skills in:

managing project plan and process in the operations phase
team management and leadership
handling the challenging daily life of the Project Manager

Organizations need frequent tune-ups to maintain effective workflow amid change. Jim has long experience – plus creative tools -- to help executives analyze their organizations, then design and implement better ways.

Project Management is the 21st-century model for managing complex, risky innovations to on-time outcomes within budget. Jim Milliken offers workplace-tested designs in customized formats for onsite implementation and classroom training.

Communication is the lifeblood of human organization, in small partnerships and large corporations – and the pipeline to their markets. Jim provides practical approaches to all the oral and written forms.

Personal Productivity is fundamental, and it consists of skills that can be examined, practiced and perfected. Likewise Leadership and Supervision. Jim has common-sense training designs for dozens of these essentials.

There is no obligation, financial or otherwise, arising from a preliminary discussion of consultation or training solutions.