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  Critical Thinking
and Problem-Solving Skills
for Achieving Project Success with Stretched and Limited Resources

The current economic climate has forced organisations to slash budgets and shrink their workforce. In an environment where the mandate is "do more with less", project managers need to be particularly adept at maximising their resources and delivering a return on their organisation's investment.

The ability to apply critical thinking to developing creative solutions to problems and to influencing others to win team member and stakeholder support, significantly enhances a project manager's value as a leader within an organisation.

Applying strategies to gain commitment from others, transforming your creativity into practical business solutions, and leveraging a range of qualitative and quantitative tools to manage resources and implement your solutions are all critical competencies for today's project managers.

The following courses will help you develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed for achieving project success with stretched and limited resources.

Prerequisite Courses

If you haven't mastered the project management fundamentals, we recommend you take one of these two courses before taking courses to improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills:

Project Management: Skills for Success
Course 296 • 4 Days

Project Management for Software Development
Course 340 • 4 Days

Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Courses

Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
Course 284 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:

  • Make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem solving
  • Adapt to different thinking styles in group and team environments
  • Recognise and remove barriers to individual and group creativity to foster an innovative work environment
  • Systematically analyse a target problem
  • Present your ideas clearly and concisely for maximum stakeholder buy-in
  • Transform your creativity into practical business solutions

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Project Budgeting and Estimating: Taking Control of Your Projects
Course 923 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:

  • Create an accurate budget for any level of work from individual project tasks to entire portfolios
  • Estimate tasks using activity-based costing, and aggregate to project budgets
  • Aggregate individual costs to form a project budget
  • Quantify risk to justify contingency funding and produce a defensible baseline
  • Manage the programme budget, allocating funds to projects with the best rate of return
  • Leverage Earned Value Analysis to determine project status, forecasts and any necessary corrections

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Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority
Course 294 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:

  • Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
  • Define desired outcomes for win-win results
  • Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
  • Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
  • Deal effectively with challenging behaviours to overcome resistance and inertia in others
  • Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others

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