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  Risk Assessment and Contingency Planning Skills
Effectively Identifying and Neutralising Risks to Achieve Project Success

All projects involve risk. In today's business climate even the most well-prepared plans must be flexible enough to meet and overcome unexpected challenges. To quantify and manage risk, successful project managers must thoroughly analyse and quantify risk before and during a project, as well as develop effective response strategies to deliver projects that meet stakeholder demands.

Effective project managers apply critical thinking skills to effectively analyse and determine appropriate solutions to address at-risk projects. They need strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills to recognise the potential for delay, disruption, or rework, and to implement contingency plans as needed. They know how to balance scant resources and deliver under strict deadlines in the face of ever-increasing customer expectations, and are better equipped to make sound decisions and lead their projects to success.

Managing project risks and developing contingency plans to keep projects on track are critical competencies for today's project managers.

The following courses will help you develop the critical project risk management skills needed for achieving project success.

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 specific project risk management skills:

Project Management: Skills for Success
Course 296 • 4 Days

Project Management for Software Development
Course 340 • 4 Days

Risk Assessment & Contingency Planning Courses

Project Risk Management
Course 286 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:

  • Manage project risk effectively to deliver successful projects that meet stakeholder needs
  • Apply customisable, industry-robust templates to create a Risk Management Plan and Risk Register
  • Leverage a proven 7-step qualitative risk analysis process to identify risk exposure
  • Translate risk into actual time and cost impact using proven quantitative risk analysis tools
  • Utilise a tested 7-step technique to design your risk response strategies
  • Monitor risk triggers to control uncertainties and maximise project payoff

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Complex Project Management
Course 287 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:

  • Manage complex projects involving strategic risks and aggressive time scales
  • Incorporate the emerging science of complexity thinking into your project management strategies
  • Apply a unique complexity assessment model and an adaptive four-step process to strategic projects
  • Minimise uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile and Lean approaches
  • Lead adaptive teams and exploit opportunities for project performance and product innovation
  • Build a strategic project management toolkit to establish yourself as a thought leader within your organisation

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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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