Project Management

To manage a project successfully from start to finish involves careful planning, strategic thinking and an excellent understanding of the different stages of a project. The project management course online is designed to provide aspiring project managers with an understanding of the key to successful project performance, covering essential topics such as the project life cycle, project communication, stakeholder management and budgeting.

This professional project management training course is endorsed by ABC Awards – a regulated organisation that ensures professional, reputable certification for further education. Through practical case studies and exercises, you will learn how to manage a project of any scope and scale, by developing your knowledge of project performance key values. On completion, you will have all the fundamental skills and knowledge to effectively oversee each phase of a project from start to finish, from budget through to execution.

Learning Objectives

• Fast track your career with a recognised qualification in Project Management
• Develop your understanding of project management teams, roles and responsibilities
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the project life cycle, from planning to execution
• Strategies and techniques for managing conflict in a project environment
• Understand how to communicate effectively with other project members
• Familiarise with the role of the stakeholder in project management
• Know how to implement a realistic budget and schedule that fits the scope of your project
• Identify project performance key values and know the key to successful project performance
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of change management and its key principles
• Understand how to create an effective project management plan and what should be included in it

Who is this Course for?

This endorsed project management course online is ideal for aspiring project managers and project coordinators, as well as existing professionals who wish to update their skills and knowledge. Our online courses are specially designed for distance learning, offering flexible virtual classroom modules that you can study at your own convenience. There are no specific entry requirements for this course, which can be studied full-time or part-time.

Entry Requirement:

• This project management course online is available to all learners, of all academic backgrounds.
• Learners should be aged 16 or over to undertake the qualification.
• Good understanding of English language, numeracy and ICT are required to attend this course.

Accreditation

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme.  This means that Course Gate has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 5 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

The course itself has been designed by Course Gate to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications.   ABC Awards/Certa endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met.  A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

ABC Awards and Certa Awards have long-established reputations for providing high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. ABC Awards and Certa Awards combine over 180 years of expertise combined with a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.

Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, ABC Awards and Certa Awards also offer regulated qualifications for all ages and abilities post-14; all are developed with the support of relevant stakeholders to ensure that they meet the needs and standards of employers across the UK.

Certification

Endorsed Certificate of Achievement

At the successful completion of the course, the learners can order an endorsed certificate by paying the accreditation fee of £108. There is an additional £10 postal charge for international students.

Certificate of Completion from Course Gate

At the successful completion of the course, the learners may order the Certificate of Completion from Course Gate (soft copy) by paying only £2. For the Printed hard copy of the certificate, the learners have to pay £9.

Career path

This training course provides a stepping stone to work your way up to becoming a successful project manager or project coordinator. On successful completion, learners will be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the project life cycle and how to oversee a project of any scale successfully from start to finish. Related professions in this field include:

• Project Manager
• Project Coordinator
• Project Support Officer
• Project Surveyor