Project Management Training Scheme
Session Structure The training will take place twice a month (1st and 3rd Week of each month) beginning June and completing December 2011 (With August not be used) and again from January – June 2012. We have 15 places on each course. It will take place on the bestsuited day for the group –some flexibility to these weeks and days maybe adopted if required. Each session will run from 10am – 4pm, with a half hour lunch break (which will be provided) Introductory Session 10am 12.30pm Day One 10am – 4pm Day Two 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 20th June 2011 (Not 23rd or 24th ) 2. 2. W/C 16th January 2012 1. W/C 4th July 2011 2. W/C 6th February 2012 1. W/C 18th July 2011
Meet and greet, Q&As Expectations.
What is project management? Overview Defining and planning tools Basic tools
2. W/C 20th February 2012 Day Three 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 5th September 2011
Notating tools Techniques and when to use them
2. W/C 5th March 2012 Day Four 10am – 4pm Day Five 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 19th September 2011 2. W/C 12th March 2012 1. W/C 3rd October 2011
More tools, which tools work for you? Tool comparisons Change, communication and closure Strategies
2. W/C 2nd April 2012 Day Six 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 19th October 2011
Day Seven 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 7th November 2011
Day Eight 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 21ST November 2011
2. W/C 16th April 2012
2. W/C 7th May 2012
2. W/C 21st May 2012
Mid term review, time management and people management Attendees’ mid term reviews of course. Time Management in practice People Management in theory Managing resources and risks Budgeting techniques and comparisons Principals of Risk Management Stakeholders and evaluation Identifying types of stakeholder
Day Nine 10am – 4pm
1. W/C 5th December 2011 2. W/C 4th June 2012
Principals of evaluation People management, course wrap up. Principals of people management Attendees’ reflections of their learning experiences on the course Course re-cap
The above outline is taken from the previous training and may be subject to a few changes in response to the evaluation of that course. However the majority of it will remain. Venues Venues for the training will be held at various CPAL member organisations spaces e.g. Prescap, Lime, More Music, Action Factory and Cheshire Dance. Enabling participants experience different organisations settings, as well as develop new links and networks and provide travel convince for everyone. Additional Work outside of Training The training will not require much additional study, no more than 1 hour after each session. However it will encourage testing and putting tools into practise, to get the most from the training as it is happening. Some form of personal reflection on this will be encouraged. The training will also offer a mentoring element to the programme. This will be done additionally to the course, the level of commitment from participants and mentors will be identify individually. This is a voluntary element to the training. Expense and Fees The full fee for the training is £130, which has been subsidised by Arts Council England. Participants will be provided with all handouts and resources as part of the course fee. All fee’s need to be paid to Prescap – the process and instalments for this will be agreed at a later stage. Trainer Jo Verrent Biography The programme has been designed with CPAL and Jo Verrent, who will be delivering the training. Jo Verrent is a consultant who provides training, research and project management in inclusion and diversity. She works across public, private and voluntary sectors and her creative and successful approach to training has been used by many national agencies, including the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP), Creative Scotland and Arts Council England (ACE). Most recently she has delivered Sync – a 3year national programme looking disability and leadership for CLP; Sync South East – a regional programme to develop the capacity of 30 individuals and 10 organisations over a 2year time frame (for Accentuate/ACE, SE) and works as host for Articulate – a 2year programme for Shape focused on inspiring young learning disabled people at the transition between school and college/employment. Jo is on the Unlimited Panel, selecting Unlimited Commissions for LOCOG/ACE as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and is an Artistic Advisor for ACE. She trains for Shape on all aspects of disability and equality, specialising in making events accessible – her favourite clients so far have been Channel 4 and Artichoke’s team for Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth project, One and Others.
Jo has managed numerous projects one off performances, conferences and seminars, monthlong festivals and national tours. Her passion for the arts and belief in equality of opportunity is tempered with wit and wisdom, and her pragmatic approach is based on her own experience of being hearing impaired since she was twelve. She works from practical base, having both run and developed cultural organisations. Jo has won two accolades of which she is equally proud – the national Cosmopolitan Woman of Achievement Award and her village horticultural show’s award for ‘Best Preserve in Show’, which she held for two years consecutively. She is just about to embark on a challenging new role – that of grandmother. Website: www.adainc.org email: joverrent@adainc.org If you have any additional or more specific queries please get in touch with Naomi Whitman, CPAL Development Worker: Naomi@cpal.info