Make PM Part of Your Educational and Leaderships Skills Set

Often academic programmes fall short of essential knowledge areas and processes because there is a weak management framework underlying the academic curriculum.

APMSA applies a unique 3-dimensional methodology in its training approach that assures high levels of functional competence. Most PM methodologies, uses the dimensions of (1) Knowledge and (2) Experience to develop PM Skills. However, these two dimensions does not guaranteed the success of complex projects and therefore APMSA also uses the (3) Behavioural dimension in its management framework.

The behavioural dimension ensures that the project manager does not only have knowledge and experience, but that he or she also has the personal attributes to lead and manage a project team into the successful delivery of project goals.

Knowledge index

Behavioral index

Experience index

Skills

Audience:

All individuals working in a Project Management (PM)- and Project Support Services (PSS) environment will benefit from this “hands-on” interactive training model. Every professional person and manager needs to make Project Management part of their educational and leaderships skills set. Project Management as an additional skills to a tertiary qualification is required in every industry and every successful business.

Outcomes:

• Understand the value of PM
• Understand the IPMA model
• Learn and apply basic PM definitions
• Understand competence, maturity and excellence
• Understand and apply the IPMA framework and complexity
• Apply knowledge of technical, behavioural and contextual ranges
• Understand the competence taxonomy and its application
• Apply knowledge of competence at identified level

Focus Areas:

Mastery of the Competency Framework, which consist out of 47 elements.

NOTE:

The Association of Project Management South Africa (APMSA) is a professional body that uses innovative and advanced practices to equip project managers with better skills and insights to respond to the levels of complexity of projects in the South African context.

APMSA is part of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) that comprises of more than 90 countries. The programme was developed from various professional sources, including the American PMI PMBoK. It is also aligned with aspects of the ISO 21500 Guide of Project Management.

1. Technical competence

2. Behavioural competences

3. Contextual competences

A

Permanent

Organization

B

Business

Administration

C

PESTLE

A

Project manager

attribute

B

Direct

control

D

Direct

Influence

E

Indirect

Influence

A

Interested Parties

Requirements

1.19 Start-up

1.20 Close-out

B

Work integration

C

Production of

Deliverables

D

Project progress