PM-001 Project Management Associate

Project management is a key qualification. Regardless of the industry, project-oriented work is ubiquitous. Open up new fields of activity and optimize your project management! Work intensively with participants from different industries in an interdisciplinary way. Acquire the best possible certification in project management currently available, which is highly recognized by HR departments and your customers worldwide. Use this advantage to change your career or to expand your current position. We offer you didactically sophisticated concepts and practice-proven documentation.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at anyone who needs a solid knowledge base in project management. Experienced professionals who want to underpin their previous experience with sound project management knowledge. Participants with a classical education combined with project management experience are in good hands. Trainees in dual vocational training and students with an affinity for project management are also welcome to join.

Benefits

The course provides valuable basic knowledge as a foundation for your professional activities or as a first building block for a targeted internationally certified training in the field of project management. Based on the “individual competence baseline (ICB 4.0)” of the IPMA, the participants learn to plan and manage projects rationally. The focus is on methodological competence, the handling of different project management approaches, communication and teamwork as well as the tasks, responsibilities and skills of a project manager.

Participants are introduced to the methodical management of projects and are safely prepared for certification as a Certified Project Management Associate (IPMA® Level D).

• Recognize the relevance of communication and teamwork
• Apply project management methods confidently in everyday life
• Develop your competencies in project management
• Deepen your knowledge and practical transfer through extensive exercises

Contents

The 3 competency areas of ICB 4.0:

• Perspective (contextual competencies)
  • Strategy
  • Governance, structures and processes
  • Compliance, standards, regulations
  • power and interests
  • culture and values
• People (personal and social competencies)
  • Self-reflection and self-management
  • Personal integrity and reliability
  • Personal communication
  • Relations and engagement
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Conflict and crises
  • Diversity
  • Negotiations
  • Outcome orientation
• Practice (Methodological and technical competencies)
  • Project design
  • Requirements and objectives
  • Scope of services and deliverables
  • Procedure and dates
  • Organization, information and doumentation
  • Quality
  • Costs and financing
  • Resources
  • Purchasing
  • Planning and control
  • Chances and risks
  • Stakeholder
  • Change and transformation

Course set-up

• 8 days, 6 hours each
• Conceptual and methodological input + group discussion + teamwork/ workshops + individual case study/ own project
• Ends with an written exam (2 hrs, online, extra appointment) leading to internal certification
• External certification possible (GPM/ IPMA) with extra 4 hrs of preparation (extra fee) + extra appointment for the exam (exam fee)