Project Management
On Time, On Budget and In Full
Strategy Session
In just four hours you’ll learn how to maximise the performance of your organisation’s projects.
Have you ever wanted to optimise the performance of your projects, division or department? We will show you exactly how to do it in this four hour workshop.
First what do we mean by optimisation. We mean squeezing everything you can out of everything you’ve got; better due date performance, less resource contention, lower project costs, and more delivery in-full.
Here are some typical results our clients have achieved in working with us:
City of Edinburgh Council Roads Department
- Increase in productivity by 200%
- Time to repair from 333 days to 39,
- Won Guardian Public Service Award for Frontline Engagement for improved public services.
VELUX
- 12 functional units combined into a single point of contact for all customer transactions
- One stop capability in excess of 94%
- Highest customer satisfaction ratings of all VELUX sales companies in Europe
- Employee turnover and absence rates less than half the industry norm
- Call centre agent productivity increased by 30%
- Independent research found highest levels of employee engagement of any organisation studied
- Operating costs reduced by in excess of £1,000,000
- Average wait time reduced to 8 seconds
- Overall staffing 30% lower than would have been without systems intervention
- Failure demand and waste reduced dramatically
Financial services
- From 942 days to settle a claim to two weeks.
Housing
- 212 days to complete a repair down to 8.
- Number of visits to complete a repair from 3.8 down to 1.3
What we think you will find interesting is that our clients achieve these results by doing the exact opposite of what traditional management gurus recommend.
There was no target setting (in fact we removed them), no extra resources (in some cases there were less), and no incentive schemes (because we took them out). So how did they do it?
What did they do?
- What they did was to take a revolutionary approach to design and management of projects.
- They learned how seeing their organisation from the customer’s point of view would give them instant clues for improving service and cutting costs.
- They how to build project templates so that project preparation is done in half the time.
- They found out exactly how to use measures so that they could tell if, when and why a project was going to run late. This is advance warning stuff, so you can get the project back on track.
- They learned that what you can’t measure you can’t improve, how to optimise and reduce failure in future projects.
- They got a simple four step method for uncovering the hidden waste that causes problems and consumes resource in projects.
- They saw the importance of getting knowledge about how the work works and were taught a five step model for redesigning processes, policies and projects so that they deliver optimum service at the lowest possible cost.
- And they learned what questions to ask to find out if a project would run late, actually there’s only one.
- They learned how to manage multi-projects.
- The learned the point at which to sequence multi-projects. Poor sequencing almost guarantees late finishes.
- We taught them how to use visual measures to make provide and early warning of late completion.
- They found out how to use templates to build projects faster.
Our Offer
We know that the recession is making it tough for both the public and private sector right now. Though the irony is that if ever there was a time that you need to learn how to maximise the capabilities of your organisation it’s now.
So we want to give you the maximum value for the lowest investment. It’s called our four hour strategy workshop. Just gather your management team (about four or five senior managers works best) and get them in your board room.
We will run a session that give them the principles they should apply to maximise the potential of the organisation.
What your team can learn
- How to manage in multi-project environments so that you deliver more projects on time.
- How to study projects so that you can spot wasteful activities and reduce the size of your project networks. Get more done in less time.
- Why asking questions about percent complete on projects will contribute to their late completion.
- How to build project networks so that you get everything in the right order and your projects are not delayed by missing deliverables.
- How to use project templates so that you can build your projects faster.
- The role of the task manager, project manager and portfolio manager. How to make each of these people focused and effective.
- How to do problem solving in project environments. Stop making the same mistakes over and over again, and utilise the creativity of your team to solve problems once and for all.
- How to measure projects, you only need a few metrics but how you use them is the difference between success and failure.
- You will also learn the complete step by step blue print for designing and running a change programme in a project environment. Who should be involved and how long it should take. This will save you thousands of pounds and hours in false starts.
What others have said about this session
"Excellent, able to adapt and apply this knowledge"
"I am very grateful for being allowed to attend this workshop and I can't wait to practise all I have learned today"
"I really enjoyed the course, one of the first times I have paid attention all the way through a course!"
"The workshop was excellent and eye-opening! It showed me that I’ve been managing and measuring the wrong things for the past 20 years!"
Our unique guarantee
And everything comes the workshop comes with a very unique guarantee. At the first coffee break our trainer will ask your team this question
“Are you getting unbelievable value from this workshop?”
If they don’t all agree then we can stop the session, the trainer will leave and you don’t pay a penny. So the risk is ours to deliver value. If you don’t get that value you don’t pay, it’s as simple as that.
Is this course for me?
We have little experience in manufacturing organisations, so with respect it’s very unlikely that we can help you. Our methods and expertise work best in the service sector, both private and public.
Also please don’t use this as a ‘prove it session’ unless everyone in the room is totally up for radical change there’s not much point in having us in. You’ll be wasting both our time and your money if all you want to do is spend the 4 hours tell us why this won’t work in your organisation.
We want to deliver value, it’s that simple.
So if you are interested please complete the short form below and will call you back to discuss if the workshop will be in the best interests of your particular business.
Your investment
Our normal fee for a one hour presentation is £1800.00, that’s because we have to spend a day customising the material to the client. But we want to make this an affordable high value session, so that you can walk away with practical lessons and tools you can start to use immediately in your business.
Most importantly if you are thinking about partnering with a consultancy firm at anytime in the next few years we want to be your partner of choice, for that reason we are making you an offer of £795.00 plus vat for the workshop.
And remember if you’re not getting value you don’t pay. It’s that simple.
Why you should take action now
We only have a limited number of days available for this offer (about 10 over the next six months) so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.
Project Management Strategy Session
Regards
Stuart Corrigan