Five Sigma® Project Management
A 3-day, 21 PDU Program
A cornerstone program that builds on the PMBOK® Guide and range-based estimation to create a robust project plan. Each participant will learn how to balance the triple constraints of scope, cost, and schedule with the other project imperatives of quality, risk, stakeholder satisfaction, and business profit.

Constructive Project Negotiation
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
Project stakeholders have expectations that must be clearly set and effectively managed. Lasting agreements can be forged through constructive negotiation. This program builds the negotiating skills that let you create constructive agreements between the project team and the rest of the project stakeholders. A special section focuses on how to deal with a difficult negotiator.

Managing Risk & Making Decisions
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
This program details the basic risk-management sequence of identification, qualification, quantification, response development, and response control. You will learn how to plan for the likely risks and how to mitigate the less likely ones, using front-end risk planning and on-going issue management. Includes the challenging project risk game, Stays & Days® & Dragons, to illustrate the concepts being learned.

Leading Project Teams: The Human Side of Performance
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
The FASTEAMS® system design was distilled from the best practices of over 750 teams and provides a method for managing performance at every stage of the project life cycle. Key topics include: defining roles and ground rules, building consensus, talking about task and relationship behaviors, and how to build a team that sees itself as a team.

Winning Project Presentations
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
As a project manager, you must present to, converse with, and convince a variety of audiences every day. This program focuses on how to develop, design, and deliver a results-oriented presentation. You will learn how to organize a talk based on an objective, use a specific format, and rehearse your talk.

Managing the Project’s Organizational Context
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
Individual projects influence, and are influenced by, their organizational context. This program provides you with tools for managing the “side effects” of organizational change. You’ll gain hands-on experience planning a change effort in a real organization as well as an understanding of the impact of change on your organization.

Computer Tools for Project Management
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
A 3-person, 5-month project should not take days to plan. You should be able to correct a plan and track your project in just a few minutes a week. Through lecture and class discussion, guided interaction on the computer, and learn-by-doing team workshops, this program builds your fundamental knowledge and practical skill with several computer tools.

Chartering Projects: Managing the Business Priorities of the Project Portfolio
A 2-day, 14 PDU Program
This capstone program shows you how to position your project within the business, emphasizing the on-going relationship between an individual project’s needs and a business’s strategic objectives. You will learn how to charter a new project and how to make the right choice among several proposed projects: how to avoid the bad ones, postpone the questionable ones, and quickly launch the profitable ones.