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Click on each of the course names for a full description:
Our Standard Courses
Management Skills for Project Managers
Our Specialist Courses
Our In-Depth Courses
In-Depth: Building High Performance Teams
On-Site Customized Project Management Training
| The opportunity | IS project
managers need training, just as any experts in your organization. There are many
sources of seminars and courses available, but they all suffer from one of two problems.
Either they're canned, pre-packaged "public" courses, or they're canned,
pre-packaged in-house courses. In neither case do they offer completely what you want.
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| Customized training | Our training is a
twenty-hour project management course, delivered at your site, offering the topics that
you want covered, with the schedule that you select. Unlike a pre-packaged, canned course,
our On-Site Customized Project Management Training delivers the topics that you think are
important, with an emphasis on your organization’s unique needs.
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| The topics you want | We offer a
menu of over forty topics, organized into three groups: Project Management, Advanced
Project Management, and Management Skills For Project Managers. You can select up to
twenty-five topics from any of the three groups. Uncertain about which ones to select? We can offer suggestions once we find out more about your organization.
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| The schedule you want | The training is twenty hours, and we can deliver this in one of four different schedules: | |
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| The dates you want | Just pick the dates that are best for you and let us know three weeks in advance. We’ll be there. |
| Where do you offer your courses? | We have taught courses in
Canada, the United States, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Our five primary target markets
are the Philippines, China including Hong Kong, Brazil, India, and Russia.
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| What industries do your courses target? | Our courses are directed
toward technology, engineering, information systems, government, and telecommunications.
We have also taught courses to participants in marketing, communications, construction,
manufacturing, and law.
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| What types of clients have you taught for? | Our clients have included
academia, engineering companies, consulting companies, public utilities,
telecommunications companies, and government departments including health, housing,
highways, and technology.
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| Are your courses public or in-house? | We have taught both. Our
in-house clients include companies in telecommunications, public utilities, agriculture,
government, and software development. We also teach public courses offered by consulting
companies to their clients.
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| We are a consulting company. Can we offer one of your courses under our name? | Absolutely. We have entered
into partnership agreements with consulting companies in which all the course materials
include the company's logo and the course is offered either by the company or by the
company and Westwind Consulting jointly. It's up to you.
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| Who delivers the courses? | All our courses are delivered
by the principal of Westwind Consulting, Jolyon Hallows.
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| Are the courses lecture or exercises? | All our
courses are based on a combination of lecture and exercises. Participants work in teams
and, for our course on Project Management Techniques, they develop a plan for a live
project—one of the ones they are involved with. At the end of the course, one project
from each team will have the basis for its plan already prepared.
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| How many participants can attend? | Because the
courses are interactive, we limit each course to twenty-five participants. We will deliver
it for as few as fifteen. Participants are grouped into teams of four or five members.
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| What do we need to provide? | We ask you to
provide the room, a projector and screen, and the participants. That’s it. If you
also want to provide refreshments, that’s at your option.
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| At what level is the course taught? | That depends
upon your participants. We find out before the course what experience your people have and
we customize the course to that level. However, there are no prerequisites and we have
often delivered our courses to new project managers.
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| How long are the courses? | - Project
Management Techniques is twenty hours, normally delivered over three days. - Advanced Project Management is two days. - Management Skills for Project Managers is two days - The specialized courses are normally one day each, but each is available in greater depth as a two-day course.
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| What's included in the price? | We offer an all-inclusive course fee that provides you with the following: | |
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| The price includes all your travel and living costs? | Yes.
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| Do you do an evaluation? | Yes. We ask
the participants to evaluate the instructor and the course. We provide you with those
evaluations.
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| What is the price? | That depends on your location and the date on which you want the course. Contact us and we’ll provide you an all-inclusive fixed price. We think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. |
Testimonials, Recommendations, and Praise From Our Participants