Kenya: Project Design and Management Training Seminar

Dear Partner,

Asset Africa Institute, (www.assetafrica.co.ke), is pleased to announce the following seminar set to take place in April 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Seminar Name: Project Design and Management Training Seminar
Date: 27th -29th April 2016
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Cost: USD 600

Project Design and Management Training Workshop Brief
Objectives
By the end of the workshop, the participant should clearly demonstrate appreciation of each one of the following competencies:
• Correctly identify various sources of project funding and ways of accessing such funding
• Identify principles and processes of Project Design
• Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for a project
• Correctly apply a network diagram to display a Project Evaluation and Review Technique, (PERT) chart.
• Use the Critical Path Method (CPM), in the network diagram to ensure the correct project duration.
• Estimate and schedule project tasks.
• Apply resources to a project plan.
• Correctly identify the different personality types and learn how they affect project management.
• Apply time-tested tools and techniques to actual project management processes
• Correctly identify various communication channels during project implementation.
• Use a negotiation model to enhance common understanding, accountability and process ownership
• Correctly identify effective project manager characteristics
• Correctly identify the types and role of stakeholders and processes of stakeholder mapping

Training Course Content
Overview of Project Management
• Characteristics of a project
• Project management processes
• Project success and failure-analysis of critical success factors and components
• The effective project manager skills, characteristics, roles and responsibilities
• Project Scope

Project Resource Mobilization
• Tips in fund raising for projects
• Grant application processes

The People Side of Project Management
• Tips to understanding people
• Learn to appreciate individual differences
• Learn the use style models
• Self Assertiveness
• Communication, people and project success
• Why/How should project staff and teams be motivated

Planning the Project
• The components of the plan
• Introduction to the case study
• The project charter
• Project work plan
• Project control plans
• Role of a good project plan to successful implementation

Work Breakdown Structure (Work Plans)
• Defining the project cope
• Creating the WBS- demonstration of technique, the WBS task and the work package
• Methods of subdivision
• Use of the WBS.

Estimating
• Estimating accuracy, concepts and methods
• Task-based estimation
• Estimate duration
• Effort, productivity factors, influence factors.

Scheduling
• Schedule concepts and methods
• Network diagrams
• Precedence logic
• Create a network diagram- demonstration of technique PERT/CPM
• Allocation of resources
• Gantt charts/histograms.

Project Risk Management
• Evaluation of risk
• Identification, assessment, quantification, and contingency planning
• Risk consequences and contingencies
• A technique for planning for risk
• Cost/benefit/risk considerations
• Creating a project risk register

Project Control
• Prerequisites to effective control
• Measurement, evaluation, and quality control
• Key indicators
• Change management and control
• Progress reporting.

Project Completion
• Management of project completion
• Post implementation.
Building Commitment and Accountability through Effective Negotiation
• Common deficiencies and problems with negotiating agreements
• Key elements in building commitment
• Negotiation principles
• 8-Step negotiation model/process/practice simulations.

Group Facilitation
• Conceptualizing and planning a successful facilitation
• Modified 8-Step negotiation model for groups
• Facilitation tips to jump start and advance discussion/ground rules for facilitators
• Group facilitation process- getting people excited about change
• Building commitment between project teams and stakeholders.

Process Start-Up Matrix
• Components: scope facilitation, stakeholder map, and force field analysis
• Building a sense of project purpose/application to team building
• Responding to the project management process by using participants’ actual projects.

Stakeholder Mapping and Analysis
• Identify those who can help advance the objectives of the project
• Identify stakeholder assumptions and expectations about the project.

Force Field Analysis
• Group facilitation process quickly uncovers the constraints, assumptions, and risks
• Create strategy to respond to barriers associated with your project.

The Art of Managing Resistance
• Understand your role in resistance.

Training Methodology
Dynamic, creative, participant centered, practical, interactive, interesting adult learning methodologies and diverse media are applied to lift the participants to high levels of proficiency.

About the Organization
Asset Africa Institute (www.assetafrica.co.ke)-AAI--AAI-) is a top training brand based in Kenya which specializes in the research, design and delivery of high quality and affordable training programs for development workers worldwide. We work with a consultant base of more than 120 highly educated and experienced professionals many of whom are involved in post doctoral research work. Over the years, Consultants at AAI have been sought by such reputable organizations as: Federal University, Birnin Kebbi-Nigeria, African Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD), Norwegian Church Aid-Zambia, ACOMIN-Nigeria, Tear Fund-DRC, CLEEN Organization-Nigeria, Love Botswana Outreach Mission, Islamic Relief-Somalia, National Museums of Kenya, Cornerstone Development-Uganda, International Organization for Immigration (South Sudan), Save Your Generation (SYG)-Ethiopia, Africa Rice Center (Africa Rice)-Benin, UNIDO Somalia Program,among others.

For more information regarding any of the above seminars, Contact:
Lillian Ateng’
Training Coordinator
Asset Africa Institute,
Trust Mansion Hse,
Tubman Road off Koinange Street
P.O. Box 12903 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 -722 469454/720986965,
www.assetafrica.co.ke
Email: info@assetafrica.co.ke / assetafrika@gmail.com

Participants’ Review of this training
Well organized and informative training; very practical with very knowledgeable trainers. I will definitely improve my productivity at work! Mohammed Abdisalam, UNIDO, Somalia Programme

Exceptional delivery, very good masterly of content exhibited by facilitators from Asset Africa, a lively experience. Thank you all! Khansa’a Shareef, Oxfam, Yemen

This is a training I would recommend to anyone interested in anything management! Mercy K. Wanjiru, University of Nairobi School of Law, Parklands, Nairobi, Kenya

I thank my employer for sponsoring me to this training. I now promise to deliver more. Musa Magaigwa, Salvation Army, Tanzania

To enroll to this seminar, fill in the registration form and email it back to:
Lillian Ateng’
Training Coordinator
Asset Africa Institute,
Trust Mansion Hse,
Tubman Road off Koinange Street
P.O. Box 12903 – 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 -722 469454/720986965,
www.assetafrica.co.ke
Email: info@assetafrica.co.ke / assetafrika@gmail.com