• Cancellation Policy

Seminar Description

Successful projects result from good time and cost control, effective team leadership and highly motivated teams. This is achieved by using a team approach in planning, scheduling, monitoring and evaluating projects. This seminar combines technical project management tools with the team processes needed to ensure that the tools work.

The workshop is intended for managers, supervisors, specialists and staff who are involved in, or expect to be involved in, projects of any size or type, either as a leader or as a team member. The concepts presented apply to projects of all sizes and types, from physical construction to softer projects such as changing the work-process in a department.

The course is a workshop - wherever appropriate, learning takes place through experience. Teams of four to six participants are formed during the first day as part of the team development process and will work together throughout the course. Near the end of the course each team prepares a project plan, making use of the techniques learned. This provides the opportunity for participants to experience a collaborative planning process and see its effectiveness first-hand.

Course Objectives

On completion of the program, participants will:

• understand the principles of developing and building effective project teams
• understand techniques for planning and scheduling projects, establishing positive project practices and procedures, monitoring and reporting of progress
• be able to use a collaborative process for planning, scheduling and monitoring their projects
• have a personal action plan for improving their effectiveness on projects
• have an agreement among all on new practices to implement at work to improve project management.

Instructor

Gary Robinson, P.Eng., E. M. Sciences Ltd

Gary Robinson is president of E.M. Sciences Ltd, a management-consulting firm formed in 1975 to meet the needs of project-oriented businesses. Services include organization development and culture change, management training and coaching, collaborative project planning, work redesign, team building, project partnering processes, project management consultation and critique, strategic planning, conflict resolution and continuous productivity and quality improvement. The purpose of his consulting is to increase the productivity of teams, organizations and managers in ways that will also improve the quality of working life for the people in the organization

Gary has a Master of Science in Engineering and a Master of Science in Organization Development. Partly as a result of his first career as an engineering manager, most of his work is done with projects or with companies whose services and products are delivered as projects. His clients in Canada, the United States, England, India, Korea and Australia have included engineering companies, architectural firms, contractors, manufacturers, federal and provincial governments and crown corporations, city governments, high tech research firms, software design companies, banks, oil companies, universities, hospitals, community agencies, and a variety of voluntary organizations.

He is a member of the Organization Development network, Project Management Institute, and the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia. He is also a Master Trainer in Relationship Awareness Theory for Personal Strengths Publishing.

What Previous Participants have said about this Seminar:

• “Excellent. Articulate and obviously well versed. I appreciated his no nonsense style. Calm and well paced. Well organized. Used time well.”
• “Excellent course for demonstrating the fundamentals of project management with the course bonus being a crash course in human behaviours and motivations.”
• “I completely enjoyed the course. The team building helped me to see how a good team works together, and that a team approach is the best way for a project to be managed.”
• “This course was great. It reinforces the importance of team work and illustrates how team work and success are directly related.”

Cancellation Policy

Registered attendees unable to attend the event may designate a substitute, provided APEGBC receives written notification at least one business day prior to the event. Registration information for the substitute attendee should accompany the notice. If notice of cancellation of registration is received:

•  5 business days or more prior to the event, a refund will be processed
•  Less than 5 business days prior to the event, no refunds apply

Substitute registrants are permitted up to the day of the seminar and member/non-member fees will be applied. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the event if less than the minimum required participants have registered. Liability limited to registration fee.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 14 Core Learning Units.

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