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Essentials of Project Management: For Non-Project Managers

Get the key project management skills you need in your management role today.

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The Key Issues

To work together effectively on any project, everyone on the team needs to use a common language and have a clear understanding of all expectations. When this doesn’t happen, it can cause delays, wasted resources, and poor results. The main challenge is making sure everyone understands the purpose, goals, and steps of the project. This is especially important when dealing with complex tasks, teams from different departments, or tight deadlines.

Project management skills

Stakeholder management

Change management

Key Competences​

Using key
PM tools

Managing
resources & costs

Risk
management

The Right Programme for You

You are a team leader or manager. You need to run projects as part of your role, but you do not have any project management training. This programme gives you the key skills you need in your role today.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Get the key project management skills you need as a manager today in just 2 days.

Learn processes, use tools, manage stakeholders and get your projects done on time and on budget.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Learn the difference between projects and operations
  • Explore the purpose and processes of project management
  • Understand the roles, responsibilities and needs of project team members
  • Learn and apply critical project management tools
  • Identify stakeholders, their relationships to each other and how these relationships affect projects positively and negatively
  • Recognize stakeholder issues within your organization
  • Identify and apply critical communication tools and protocols
  • Learn how to manage resources, costs and hours
  • Plan for potential risks in your project
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

The Essentials of Project Management for the Non-Project Manager is a 2-day or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Five Programme Modules

  • Distinguish Between a Project and Operations
  • Recognise the Factors That Contribute to Project Success or Failure
  • Identify the Framework for Project Management
  • Recognise the Value of Knowing Why/How a Project Is Important to the Organization and to You
  • Explain the Elements of a Charter and Its Relevance to Initiating a Project
  • Identify Stakeholders and Their Roles on a Project
  • Apply Techniques to Define the Work to Be Done
  • Identify and Apply Techniques to Estimate Needed Resources, Cost, and Hours for the Project
  • Apply Techniques to Schedule the Project
  • Identify Roles and Responsibilities for the Project
  • Plan for Potential Risks to the Project
  • Build an Effective Status Report
  • Recognise the Types and Purposes of Meetings
  • Identify Action Items and Issues}
  • Recognise the Importance of Managing Change
  • Contribute to the Lessons Learned Database
  • Identify the Project Records and Files That Must Be Archived for Historical Purposes
  • Describe a Project Closure Checklist
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Face-to-Face
2 days
€1,995

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05 May – 06 May 2025
Brussels
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28 Jul – 29 Jul 2025
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03 Nov – 04 Nov 2025
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City
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05 May – 06 May 2025
Brussels
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Scheduled
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28 Jul – 29 Jul 2025
London
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Scheduled
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03 Nov – 04 Nov 2025
Frankfurt
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