We approach training for project professionals differently. Unlike so many companies offering basic off-the-shelf courses, our team delivers configured courses to suit your organisations’s specific outcomes. Covering both project management and project leadership, we can also blend APM professional standards with your own project processes and governance.
Our Approach
We first listen to your specific needs. What are the outcomes your organisation is trying to achieve with its training and development? Perhaps it is development to gain qualifications, but for many, it is about consistent application of an organisation’s project procedures. Through our skill in creating bespoke solutions, we design and deliver engaging training events through a combination of face-to-face, live virtual and eLearning formats. Rolling out a new organisational project process? Then you’ll need expert integration of training and change leadership. We can even host your training within our Cloud-based learning management system.
A valued approach to many assignments has been to run a Discovery Phase. Here, our team and the client co-invest in a small investment into “discovering” the clear goals of your capability development journey, ensuring clear scope of work, prior to a formal contract, de-risking procurement and building stronger solutions.
Solutions that drive real project success
Our coaching practice deploys a range of bespoke solutions covering personal leadership coaching, project team development and change transformation.
Project Leader Coaching
Developed specifically for the context of project and change leadership, our coaching expertise supports project leaders enhance their confidence in times of stress and complexity. Tackling “here-and-now” challenges, fast and effective intervention results in breakthroughs that can turn around troubled projects.
The edge we provide comes from our niche combination of years of direct leadership of complex projects in addition to our expertise as coaches to senior project professionals. In the past two years alone, our team has conducted over 2,000 individual coaching sessions with leaders accountable for some of the country’s largest transformation programmes. We were selected by the Cabinet Office’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority to coach project leaders across all UK Government departments.
Project Leader Benefits
For individuals leading projects looking help on the challenging areas they are facing within a project:
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Stepping-up to a leadership role to become more strategic
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Building personal resilience in the face of stress and set-backs
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Leading across multi-discipline teams to enhance collaboration
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Helps to aid individuals in both current projects as well as all round career development
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Perfect for tackling ‘here and now’ issues
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Contact with our APM certified practitioners, for the most up to date project knowledge at the touch of a button
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Vast practitioner experience with in excess of 2,000 individual coaching sessions.
Project Team Coaching
Required to perform from Day 1, project teams rarely have sufficient time to develop as an effective unit. Worse still, with the speed of mobilisation and stakeholder complexity teams can falter within weeks, impacting performance for the organisation.
The Project Academy creates bespoke team coaching interventions for project teams. Whether supporting the acceleration of team development or re-focussing a team that has lost its way, time critical interventions enable rapid turn-around.
Team dynamics play an enormous part in project success. With key training in team coaching from internationally renowned Ashridge Business School, our coaches are able to introduce independent, objective and insightful observations and interventions for teams. Our training in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) enables us to work with leaders and their teams to invigorate effective team culture. Our team coaching brings focus and increased awareness to accelerate team development.
True collaboration is tough and many teams fail to generate effective interdependence. Whether working across different functions, departments or organisations, it requires real skill to generate shared values and the right culture to truly collaborate. Our team utilises a combination of coaching interventions to build the aforementioned traits. Specialised psychometrics also provide vital insights into different personality styles – turning difference into strength.
Project Leader Benefits
Whether you are about to launch a new collaboration or wish to enhance effective working within an existing team, we design solutions with you that can span the entire project life-cycle.
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Fast performance through accelerating project team development
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Harnessing the diversity of the team to maximise collaboration
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Managing conflict to enhance not destroy team problem solving