Custom Workshops

My perspective is:
“First do no harm!”

… so we build on what works in your organization, gently overlaying “just enough” PM (project management) principles, tools, and techniques to help your project teams become more effective. To meet these goals, we work with you and your local PM change agents to develop a unique, custom training strategy. Then we provide a custom-tailored, on-site PM workshop that incorporates your local PM vision and values, uses your own local project scenarios and “real world” projects, and sends your people home from the training with project plans and strategies that allow them to “hit the ground running!”

So What’s So Great About Greer’s Customized, On Site Workshops?

They’re CUSTOMIZED — Our up-front planning session with your senior management team lets us build in your organization’s issues, processes, and concerns!
They are IMMEDIATELY USEFUL — Attendees are invited to bring their own project concepts and work in teams to develop “high resolution” project plans to take back to the job!
We RESPECT THE WAY YOU DO PROJECTS – “First do no harm” is the approach… we build on what you are doing well and gently overlay “best practices” to help you develop more disciplined, effective PM approaches. Unlike many consultants, we do NOT try to impose a particular project life cycle, set of project steps, or one-size fits all PM methodology!
They’ve got a TRACK RECORD of success in many different industries — For more than 20 years we’ve been getting great results with clients whose project teams were struggling to produce web sites, software products, financial products, blood products, native-driven ecotourism businesses, computer systems, security systems, deep space research, printing systems, medical products and services, baggage expediting systems, and much more! (See client list.)

The Inspired Project Teams Workshop

Are you wanting to create more inspired, effective project teams? Then check out my new three-day customized, on-site training session, The Inspired Project Teams Workshop: Practical PM Tools, Skills, & Team Building Strategies.

This session provides all the skills & tools in our Project Management Basics class (below), but also includes powerful exercises to help build more inspired, enthusiastic project teams.

Project Management Basics: A Hands-on Workshop for Today’s “Instant” Project Managers

Our two-day Project Management Basics provides

Practical, “nuts and bolts” PM tools that help new project managers become effective quickly.
Plenty of hands-on practice developing the skills to put these tools to work on your own projects, now!

Advanced Project Management Workshop

Fully customized! Hands-on group work with your projects, your organizational complexity, your political issues! Click here for a brochure.

(For a background discussion of this workshop and its evolution, see the blog post, “Advanced Project Management Training: Focus on Local Complexity, not PM Esoterica. )

Planning Successful ID Projects

Planning Successful ID Projects is a special session focused on the unique needs of instructional design and development teams. ["Mike Greer is the Julia Child of ID project management... a real pro, a veteran of the project development 'wars.'" Performance & Instruction Journal, May/June, 1992]

Why Choose Michael Greer’s Project Management Workshops?

Here are three great reasons why you should choose my Project Management workshops:

The students will be spending most of their time active and involved, practicing skills that will help them be better project managers and project team members. They will not simply be listening to an inspirational lecture or watching a mediated information dump. Instead, they will complete a comprehensive quiz on the basics and then get to work on home-grown, locally-relevant hands-on exercises.
Each workshop is part of a comprehensive system, including job aids and follow-up coaching, that ensures your new project managers will practice and be able to use their new PM skills on the job.
They are presented by the man who custom creates them for you. Your instructor will be the award-winning author himself, who will bring his 20+ years of experience in project management and training into your classroom.

Bonus: Every participant in my custom, on-site workshops will receive a personal copy of my book, The Project Manager’s Partner, 2nd edition (disk w/tools included). This HRD Press best selling book contains 57 tools, worksheets, and guidelines to help PM newbies manage projects easier and more effectively! Participants practice applying many of these tools in class and can use the book as a powerful reference after class.