Best Practice User Group™ Events Programme

The following workshop will be held
on Friday 5th September at Maven Training Centre
42 New Broad St London, EC2M
1SB.

Members wishing to attend the event
should book through the website in the normal manner on the
Service for Members – Events Diary and Bookings.  There are a restricted
number of places so you are advised to book sooner rather
than later.

 

TITLE:

 

Communication, Leadership and Team Management – Soft Skills in Project Management.

 

THEME:

 

Soft skills in project management

 

Soft skills include leadership, team building and communication skills, as well as a wide variety of other interpersonal strengths. Delegates will take part in a discussion to highlight the most important of these in project and programme management, as well as considering the benefits, costs and risks of putting in place development programmes to enable staff to enhance their skills in this area.

 

The different approaches to developing these skills will be considered, including the different schools of thought (cognitive versus behavioural) and the different methods of delivering these skills, including the current popularity for coaching and mentoring services.

 

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

The issues around leadership, communication and teamwork come up frequently. This one day workshop will review the meaning of soft skills and how these apply to the challenges faced during a typical project or programme. This includes a review of the assumptions that methodologies including PRINCE2, MSP and MOR have made regarding the experience of those undertaking key roles in soft skills.

The day will conclude with a review of how the move towards this type of skills development in project and programme management may affect the way in which BPUG helps its members in future.

 

WORKSHOP DETAILS / AGENDA

 

·         9:15 Arrival, registration and coffee

·         9:30 Introductions and context setting

·         9:55 Understanding soft skills

·         10:25 Importance of soft skills in project and programme management

·         11:00 Tea

·         11:20 Delegates take part in an activity to define the types of soft skills required for project and programme management

·         12:30 Lunch – network opportunity

·         13.30 Delegates take part in an activity to build the business case for soft skills development for project and programme managers

·         14:45 Tea

·         15:00 Assessing competencies in soft skills

·         16:00 Summary/wrap-up

·         16:30 Close event

 

 

Workshops are an essential part of the membership of BPUG but it is essential that the workshops provided cover the needs of our members.  If any member has any ideas or suggestions on subject matter for workshops, please forward them to me at mike@usergroup.org.uk  if the request is of a high proportion I will endeavour to arrange one on the requested subject.

 

Integrating
PRINCE2™
and MSP

Synopsis and Objectives

 

An opportunity to consider the issue of how to extend Best Practice methods from Projects into Programmes by the integration of PRINCE2™ into an MSP run Programme.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

To understand the principles that need to be considered when deploying PRINCE2™ within a MSP run Programme

To share practical examples from a current case study of implementing both MSP and PRINCE2™ into an organisation

To develop ideas and share user experiences around the integration of MSP and PRINCE2™

 To have those delegates that arrive with current issues on the topic to leave with practical suggestions/tools that will help take their organisation forward.

 

WORKSHOP STYLE:

 

This workshop will start off with a brief input of the principles that need to be considered during the use of PRINCE2™ within an MSP run Programme, it will then be facilitated by the workshop leader to draw out practical examples that will re-enforce the principles as well as attempt to deal with any  issues that the delegates bring with them on live programmes/projects through discussion, debate and if need be breakout sessions.

Delegates are welcome to send any issues to the workshop leader prior to the event so they can be considered during the planning of the event – send to eddie.borup@ibpsolutions.co.uk

 

 WORKSHOP LEADER:

 

Eddie Borup will be facilitating this event, he brings with him the following experiences

·         Head of Programme and Project Management with over 100 staff in the practice

·         Project and Programme management delivery

·         Supporting organisations who implement MSP and PRINCE2™

·         Pragmatic and practical examples from current work in progress

 

 WORKSHOP LOCATION:

 

This workshop is being hosted by Lancaster City Council workshop will be held at Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster LA1 1PJ

  WORKSHOP AGENDA: 

 

·         10:30 Arrival, registration and coffee

·         10:45 Principles to be considered (input)

·         11:30 Case study example 

·         13:00 Lunch – network opportunity

·         13.30 Facilitated discussion/debate

·         14:45 Tea

·         15:00 Facilitated session to discuss delegates issues on live examples

·         16:00 Summary/wrap-up

·         16:15 Close event

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FUTURE WORKSHOPS:

Workshops are an essential part of the membership of BPUG but it is essential that the workshops provided cover the needs of our members.  If any member has any ideas or suggestions on subject matter for workshops, please forward them to me at mike@usergroup.org.uk  if the request is of a high proportion I will endeavour to arrange one on the requested subject.