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Course Overview Page
This is our Course Overview
Page. Here you can find out what courses we offer and how we can customize them for your
requirements. You can click on each course to see what it covers.
What
Courses Do We Offer?
Click on each of the course names for
a full description:
Our Standard Courses
Project Management Techniques
Advanced Project Management
Management Skills for Project Managers
Our Specialist Courses
Project Portfolio Management
Project Contract Management
The Project Management Office
Our In-Depth Courses
In-Depth: Quality Management
In-Depth: Scope Management
In-Depth: Risk Management
In-Depth: Building High Performance Teams
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On-Site
Customized Project Management Training
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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. |
| Customized training |
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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. |
| The topics you want |
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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 |
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The training
is twenty hours, and we can deliver this in one of four different schedules: |
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- A crash course, delivered in two days, ten hours
per day
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- A normal course, delivered in three days, seven
hours per day for the first two days and six hours on the last
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- A lengthened course, delivered in four days, five
hours per day
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- An extended course, delivered in five days, four
hours per day
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| The dates you want |
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Just pick
the dates that are best for you and let us know three weeks in advance. We’ll be
there. |
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Frequently
Asked Questions
| Where do you offer
your courses? |
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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. |
| What industries do
your courses target? |
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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. |
| What types of clients
have you taught for? |
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Our clients have included
academia, engineering companies, consulting companies, public utilities,
telecommunications companies, and government departments including health, housing,
highways, and technology. |
| Are your courses
public or in-house? |
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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. |
| We are a consulting
company. Can we offer one of your courses under our name? |
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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. |
| Who delivers the
courses? |
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All our courses are delivered
by the principal of Westwind Consulting, Jolyon Hallows. |
| Are the courses
lecture or exercises? |
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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. |
| How many participants
can attend? |
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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. |
| What do we need to
provide? |
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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. |
| At what level is the
course taught? |
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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. |
| How long are the
courses? |
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- 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. |
| What's included in
the price? |
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We offer an
all-inclusive course fee that provides you with the following: |
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- On-site instruction delivered in person by Jolyon
Hallows, author of Information Systems Project Management and The Project
Management Office Toolkit.
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- All course materials including, for each
participant:
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- A course binder containing the course notebook, a
set of appendices used for exercises, and the course overheads
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- A CD containing the course notebook, the
appendices, the course overheads, and an electronic copy of Information Systems Project
Management, Second Edition
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- All travel and living costs for the instructor.
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| The price includes
all your travel and living costs? |
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Yes. |
| Do you do an
evaluation? |
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Yes. We ask
the participants to evaluate the instructor and the course. We provide you with those
evaluations. |
| What is the price? |
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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. |
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Testimonials,
Recommendations, and Praise From Our Participants
“The
interaction of the entire group was excellent.” Gary, NYC Housing Authority, New
York, USA.
“Jolyon
presented the material in a clear, concise manner. The presentation / training was a
wonderful mix of knowledge and information.” Sharon, NYC Housing Authority, New York,
USA.
“[Great]
clarity of presentation.” Bob, NYC Department of Health, New York, USA.
“…an
excellent way of building and maintaining an effective team.” Clovine, NYC Technology
Forum, New York, USA.
“The
training course is very well done. I enjoyed the class very much.” Ji-Hua, NYC
Technology Forum, New York, USA.
“Thanks.
It was a blast!” Sydney, NYC Technology Forum, New York, USA.
“This
has been a very educational and worthwhile course.” Osman, NYC Technology Forum, New
York, USA.
“This
course was excellent. [A] comprehensive and scientific approach to project management.
Wouldn’t change a thing.” Robert, NYC Technology Forum, New York, USA.
“Exercises
were creative and interactive.” Donay, NYC Housing Authority, New York, USA.
“Materials
and exercises were perfect.” Larry, NYC Housing Authority, New York, USA.
“Mr.
Hallows did a fantastic job—kudos to him.” Sharon. NYC Housing Authority, New
York, USA.
“I
feel like I now have the framework to effectively manage a project.” Eric, NYC
Housing Authority, New York, USA.
“Great
presenter, good speaker and encouraged class participation.” SFU Managing Technology
Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“Enjoyable
session. Practical approach to project management with real life tangible
application” SFU Managing Technology Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“Excellent
instructor.” SFU Managing Technology Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“I don’t like giving 10s!” SFU
Managing Technology Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“Awesome!
I especially liked covering off our issues in the end.” SFU Managing Technology
Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“The
instructor clearly has a lot of experience in the field – really enjoyed the
anecdotes” BC Institute of Technology, Vancouver, Canada.
“Great
attitude. Personal anecdotes were helpful and enlightening” BC Institute of
Technology, Vancouver, Canada.
“Jolyon
brings a great approach to this course.” BC Institute of Technology, Vancouver,
Canada.
“Best
instructor overall. I have taken several project management courses and this has been the
best laid out course. Best taught.” SFU Managing Technology Projects, Vancouver,
Canada.
“Great
facilitation skills. Good example of someone who is a content expert as well as an
educator.” SFU Managing Technology Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“Good
application of concepts/theories to work related situations.” Manila Water, Manila,
Philippines.
“Practical
application and real examples we could relate to our projects.” Manila Water, Manila,
Philippines.
“I
think the program has contributed much to the learning of the group.” Manila Water,
Manila, Philippines.
“The
exercises are fun.” PM Boot Camp, Manila, Philippines.
“Good
sharing of real-life scenarios and experiences. The examples were most helpful.” PM
Boot Camp, Manila, Philippines.
“Presenter
was very knowledgeable and covered all topics of interest.” Gus, AT&T, Toronto,
Canada.
“Presentation
very well done. Lots of examples.” Brent, AT&T, Toronto, Canada.
“Liked
the fact that we worked on real projects. Helped facilitate understanding of
concepts.” Hayley, AT&T, Toronto, Canada.
“Knows
the material extremely well and presents it well.” Pervasive Software, Toronto,
Canada.
“The
course materials were valuable, especially Jolyon’s book.” Richard, Pervasive
Software, Toronto, Canada.
“Gives
off an aura of total competence in people management.” SFU Managing Technology
Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“Jolyon
is an excellent presenter. I wish we had more time to learn from him.” SFU Managing
Technology Projects, Vancouver, Canada.
“Thank
you. It was a wonderful experience.” SFU Diploma in Applied Project Management,
Vancouver, Canada.
“Enthusiastic
about topics. Good life examples.” SFU Diploma in Applied Project Management,
Vancouver, Canada.
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