ACHIEVEBLUE Project Management™

Core Project Management Skills

Project management is not just for Project Managers. Regardless of your project management methodology, all project team leads benefit from project management skills. Gone are the days when the Project Manager was effectively the "project boss". Today, project team leads such as the Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical Lead, Quality Analyst and Implementation Analyst are expected to work as de facto project managers for their phase of the project. On the business side, Client Acceptors need to understand and apply all the principles of project management in order to work effectively with the project team. Project stakeholders and users benefit from the understanding of project tools, techniques and diagrams.

Our highly targeted core courses get right to the point, delivering the skills you need in the shortest possible time.

Advanced Project Management

ACHIEVEBLUE represents IPSolutions in the Canadian marketplace. IPSolutions delivers management training workshops that lead to sustainable workplace performance improvement.

IPSolutions learning–in–action solutions help clients execute their strategies by seeing how to manage complexity in their organizations more clearly and effectively.

What sets them apart? They provide a coherent and innovative Advanced Project Management Framework that develops systems solutions to get project work done–leading to better goal alignment and real productivity.

The program helps companies link the execution of their strategy to the demands of rapidly changing markets in real time. Detailed outlines for the various courses in the program can be viewed and downloaded below:

Course Descriptions

Converting Strategies into Action (CSIA)
Provides an introduction to a framework for Advanced Project Management that incorporates a full range of proven approaches and emerging concepts for aligning project initiatives with strategic objectives.

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Leadership for Strategic Execution (LSE)
Addresses the key leadership challenges facing those with responsibility for executing their company’s strategies through organizational change and portfolio, program, and project management.

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Mastering the Integrated Program (MIP)

Teaches best-practice approaches to meeting the complex challenges of managing programs made up of multiple projects. Participants acquire proven techniques for initiating, defining and organizing, planning, tracking and managing, and closing out programs of any type and size.

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Mastering the Project Portfolio (MPP)

Offers a complete, reliable approach to ensuring that project work and assigned resources contribute to the realization of business strategies.

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Engagement / Program Management Office

Learn how to align project initiatives with strategic objectives through an engagement / program management office.

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Financial Mastery of Projects (FMP)

Enables you to communicate confidently about the economic value of projects throughout their lifecycles by showing how their performance affects corporate revenue recognition, profit, and cash flow.

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Leading Effective Teams (LET)

Equips participants with the insights and skills needed to lead complex team efforts to success under the most challenging of circumstances. Participants acquire the ability to unleash a team’s potential by applying proven approaches to communication, coordination, collaboration, and conflict management.

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Leveraging the Customer Relationship (LCR)

Develops skill in managing customer relationships–whether internal or external. Participants acquire proven communication and negotiation techniques for handling the challenging dynamics of customer interaction.

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Managing Without Authority (MWA)

Teaches how to maintain effective working relationships yet get things done in a project-based matrix environment. This highly interactive course demonstrates effective techniques and provides plenty of practice in using them. Concepts and skills are reinforced through filmed enactments demonstrating both how and how not to handle difficult situations.

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