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"Managing projects in human resources, training and development" Table Of Contents:

• 1- What is a project?
• 2- Projects and change
• 3- Features of a project
• 4- Aims
• 5- Setting clear objectives
• 6- Key dimensions of a project
• 7- People in projects
• 8- Projects in HR, training and development
• 9- Outcomes and multiple outcomes
• 10- Achieving outcomes
• 11- Scoping the project
• 12- Why scope a project?
• 13- The life of a project
• 14- Questions, evidence and decisions
• 15- Does this project meet a need?
• 16- Does it help to achieve organizational goals?
• 17- Have we considered all the options?
• 18- Option appraisal
• 19- Cost effectiveness
• 20- Opportunities and threats
• 21- Is this project feasible?
• 22- Should we do a pilot study?
• 23- Is the benefit worth the cost?
• 24- Defining the project
• 25- Working with the sponsor
• 26- Will the project be supported?
• 27- Stakeholder mapping
• 28- Working with your stakeholders
• 29- Creating the project brief
• 30- Structure of the project brief
• 31- Managing risk
• 32- Risk and contingency planning
• 33- Preparing to manage risks
• 34- Risk assessment and impact analysis
• 35- Strategies for dealing with risk
• 36- A contingency plan
• 37- A framework for managing risk
• 38- Influencing stakeholders
• 39- Outline planning
• 40- Where do you start?
• 41- Developing a project plan
• 42- Using a logic diagram
• 43- Identifying deliverables
• 44- Estimating time and costs
• 45- Estimating time
• 46- Work breakdown structure
• 47- Staff costs
• 48- Avoiding abusive practices
• 49- Equipment costs
• 50- Materials costs
• 51- Estimating revenues and intangible benefits
• 52- Who should estimate?
• 53- Planning for quality
• 54- Scheduling
• 55- Timing and sequence
• 56- Drawing up a Gantt chart
• 57- Using computer programs to plan and schedule
• 58- Identifying the critical path
• 59- Implementing the project
• 60- Drawing up the implementation plan
• 61- Team structure
• 62- Planning team responsibilities
• 63- Making it happen
• 64- Resourcing
• 65- Managing project activities during implementation
• 66- Keeping an overview
• 67- Monitoring and control
• 68- Monitoring
• 69- Milestones
• 70- Maintaining balance
• 71- Controlling change
• 72- Communications
• 73- Communications in a project
• 74- Why is good communication needed?
• 75- How can communication be provided?
• 76- Managing the flow of information
• 77- Providing information for those who need it
• 78- Where is information needed?
• 79- Access to information and confidentiality
• 80- What might hinder communication
• 81- Leadership and teamworking
• 82- The nature of leadership
• 83- Leadership in a project
• 84- Power in leadership of projects
• 85- Style in leadership of projects
• 86- Leadership roles in a project
• 87- Motivation and teamworking
• 88- Team development
• 89- Managing yourself
• 90- Managing people and performance
• 91- Preparing for good performance
• 92- Managing performance of teams in a project
• 93- Managing relationships and conflict
• 94- Making requirements explicit
• 95- Ensuring that the team have the necessary skills and experience
• 96- Developing collaboration
• 97- Dealing with poor performance
• 98- Completing the project
• 99- Handover and delivery
• 100- Delivering with style
• 101- Planning for a successful conclusion
• 102- Closing the project
• 103- Closure checklists
• 104- Dismantling the team
• 105- Project drift
• 106- Evaluating the project
• 107- Evaluation during a project
• 108- Evaluation at the end of a project
• 109- Designing a formal evaluation
• 110- Planning an evaluation
• 111- Analysing and reporting the results
• 112- Follow-up to the report
• 113- Reporting the project
• 114- Writing a project report
• 115- Characteristics of a good report
• 116- Style, structure and format
• 117- Reporting the project to gain an academic or professional award
• 118- Making effective presentations
• 119- Understanding your audience
• 120- Who is in your audience?
• 121- Purpose and content
• 122- Delivery
• 123- Learning from the project
• 124- Organizational learning about management of projects
• 125- Sharing learning from a project
• 126- Individual development from a project
• 127- Management development through leading a project.

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