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IMPROVEMENT, CHANGE AND AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Deliver powerful change in your business
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IMPROVEMENT, CHANGE AND AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT.Deliver powerful change in your business
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We also know that when people are truly invested in change it is 30 percent more likely to stick.McKinsey & Company
70 percent of change programs fail to achieve their goals, largely due to employee resistance and lack of management support.
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Your project managers and improvement specialists are responsible for overseeing complex projects, driving organisational change, influencing key stakeholders and utilising the latest technologies to support their objectives. Investing in your employees, to ensure they have the right skills and relevant training, can reap huge benefits. In addition:
• Your organisation will develop an agile delivery mindset that works for your circumstances
• Successful delivery of projects and organisational change is enabled
• Employees will become increasingly strategic and connected, developing skills beyond traditional project management practices
• Employees will focus on facilitating effective decision-making, including prioritisation of investment and agility to adapt to the changing strategic requirements of your business
• Employees will understand how new technologies such as collaboration tools and artificial intelligence can be used to enable quicker and more effective use of project management data to support decision-making
• More efficient processes
Optimise your talent while driving improvement and change
Ensuring you can attract, retain and develop talented project and change managers is key to your future commercial success. Ineffective training, or not maximising the potential of your existing talent pool, risks losing your best people – leaving you with costly recruitment and induction fees.
Embedding an agile mindset
Traditional project and change management methodologies do not fit with today’s rapidly changing commercial environment - which is why an agile mindset and flexibility are central to our programmes in project and change management.
How we can help
We focus on helping your employees develop the skills to progress through different levels of project, change and improvement management and gain professional accreditation.
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Discover how an intelligent approach can deliver successful results in your business. In a world of constant change, digital transformation and increased competition, the ability to manage complex projects, implement change and improve processes has never been more critical. Decisions must be made quickly with your employees having to demonstrate a more flexible and collaborative approach than ever before.
Our programmes will embed the agile mindset and core skills your project and change managers need to deliver successful transformation in your organisation. The success of each programme is measured not only by the skills they gain, but by the impact they have on your organisation.
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Close your skills gaps.
We asked them to tell us which skills they believe are most important right now, but equally, which skills would be most important going into the next decade.
In the present, the skills they need to train and develop are relatively conventional: budgeting and cost control, project governance, and managing communications with stakeholders are all fairly standard skills in these roles, although it is useful to see where professionals think the training focus should sit in the present.
The results get really interesting when we look at the skills project managers and change managers predict they’ll need for the future: AI for scheduling and assigning resources comes out on top, and digital innovation, entrepreneurship and disruption feature in the top 10. This gives us a crucial idea of where the skills focus will sit in the future.
In April 2020 we conducted a research project that involved professionals from 10 different specialisms and four different nations to give us a detailed understanding of the skills required for their roles. This included a sample of project managers and change managers.
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Project Manager/Change Manager: top 10 present skills
1. Budgeting and cost control
2. Project governance
3. Stakeholder and communications management
4. Risk and issue management
5. Resource management
6. Quality management
7. Business case
8. Schedule management
9. Relationship building, negotiation and empathy
10. Contract management and procurement
Project Manager/Change Manager: top 10 future skills
1. Artificial intelligence: scheduling, assigning resources
2. Budgeting and cost control
3. Resource management
4. Quality management
5. Legal and regulatory compliance knowledge
6. Digital innovation, entrepreneurship and disruption
7. Project governance
8. Schedule management
9. Stakeholder and communications management
10. Contract management and procurement
This extensive research and understanding of our sectors,
markets and audiences informs the development of our management programmes; keeping them future
facing and relevant.
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We’ve invested heavily in understanding the capability needs of the management and leadership job family.
This includes a forensic analysis on the skills it needs and how those skills build from one level to the next; ensuring this is built into our programme content and the way they are delivered.
We help your people to develop the knowledge and skills required to improve their project and change management capabilities, which in turn helps your organisation to achieve its objectives.
Our programmes will help to ensure you have a solid base of project managers through the Associate Project Management Level 4 programme – who can transition into improvement specialists via the Level 5 programme which includes either Agile Scrum Master qualification or Six Sigma Black Belt.
Further progression is also available through the Level 6 Improvement Leader. As these three programmes are funded through the Apprenticeship Levy, it enables you to focus your L&D budgets on additional senior talent programmes and interventions. You can also build effective talent pipelines and succession plans to develop your high potential people into senior management and executive positions using a blend of apprenticeships and other interventions.
Plugging skills gaps at every level.
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In today’s increasingly competitive and constantly changing world, it’s your people that will keep you ahead. Your talent is an asset with limitless potential, and harnessing it is the key to future growth. Graham Gaddes CEOBPP Education Group
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Our programmes.
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16 months Duration
Level 4 Associate Project Manager Programme
Could include but not limited to: Assistant Project Manager,
Junior Project Manager and Project Team Leader.
Role
Levy funded
Project management fundamentals
Business case and benefits
Planning and scope
Quality
Resources and procurement
Scheduling, budgeting and cost control
Risks and issues
Stakeholders
Communication
Leadership and teamwork
Governance and methodologies
APM qualification
Professional development
What does the
programme cover?
FoundationLevel
11
18 months
Level 5 Improvement Specialist
Could include but not limited to: Business Improvement Expert, Continuous Improvement Consultant,
Process Excellence Manager, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Business Improvement Consultant and Business Transformation Consultant.
Principles and methods of improvement
Process mapping and analysis
Voice of the customer
Continuous improvement
Change planning and management
Problem solving
Commercial environment
Project management
Leading improvement teams
Communication
Coaching
Team working
Drive for Results
Use of AI to schedule and assign resources
Professionalism Data planning and analysis
Statistics and measures
Measurement systems analysis
Process thinking, capability and performance
Capability development, sustainability and control, benchmarking
Experimentation and Optimisation
ILX
Core
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Our short courses.
Short courses
Project Manager in Practice
The Effective and Agile Project Finance Manager
Project Finance - Introduction
Lean Finance
Leading Change
Creatively Problem Solve, Deal with Complexity & Make the Right Decisions
Confident Decision-Making & Strategic Thinking
Understanding & Improving Business Processes
Equip your employees with the perfect balance of hard technical skills and soft communication skills. This helps them, and you, reach new levels of productivity, value and growth.
Our range of short courses is created with direct input from clients to address the most significant and pressing skills gaps.
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The highest quality learning. Delivered how you need it.
Innovative online learning platforms
Learners study on our premium online platform, comprising a virtual classroom with interactive features.
• Provides interactive online sessions at scheduled times, accessible from anywhere in the world
• Uses market leading Adobe Connect – premium virtual classroom software
• Capped class sizes for maximum engagement
Our range of study modes ensure your employees can balance education with their day jobs for maximum impact and productivity.
You can choose from a range of study modes including in-house on your premises, in one of our UK study centres, online or a blended approach to suit your individual requirements.
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Professional accreditation
The Level 4 Project Management programme is accredited by the professional body for Project Management with successful candidates achieving a qualification in Project Management. Level 5 and 6 Improvement Specialist/Leader includes either a Six Sigma Black Belt qualification or Agile Scrum Master qualification (AGM).
Professional support, coaching and guidance
Alongside our industry experienced tutors and professional Coaches, we provide our learners with one-to-one support for the entire duration of the programme. Our Coaches are experienced project managers and change specialists who share their passion to help develop careers.
A focus on professional development
Our change and project management courses focus on developing your employees’ skills and capabilities by addressing the challenges they face in their working environment. It is flexible and designed to fit around their day-to-day job role.
Established and agile learning infrastructure
Our expertise in delivering large scale development programmes gives us the infrastructure you can trust, combined with the agility to create bespoke solutions to suit your specific needs and requirements.
We work in partnership with you to design bespoke training solutions that are delivered to suit your business, project approach and cycle.
Innovative learning means you’re always ahead
Since we were founded in 1976, we have been successfully challenging the way that accountants, actuaries and other financial services professionals have undertaken their training.
As the one of the largest providers of professional education, and with a 40-year history, we deliver training to 90% of the FTSE 100 companies in subjects including finance, law, technology, data, project and change management, HR and leadership.
We have taken the best elements of our curriculum and featured them on these project management and change management programmes – with the primary aim to produce effective modern change managers who will thrive in today’s digital environment.
Why choose BPP?
