Effective Project Management

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Course Category: Social and Community Enterprise, Business and Marketing

price

  • £38.32: Members of Devon Communities Together and Growing the Rural Church
  • £49.10: Charities, Community Groups or Parish and Town Councils that are not members of Devon Community Together
  • £92.22: Private Sector organisations and Statutory Local Authorities

course description

With demands on voluntary organisations increasing, good project management is increasingly essential to ensure that projects are delivered to time and budget. Effective planning and managing your project will enable you to respond to opportunities and challenges within the work you do. Beyond delivery of the project, effective management can improve staff retention, volunteer engagement, partnership development and lots more.

This workshop will provide a step by step look at how to effectively plan and manage a project, looking at tools and processes that support this work to be as effective as possible including the use of risk assessments, Gantt charts, and review structures.

*PLEASE NOTE. If you are part of a mission community involved in the Growing the Rural Church Project, please book the DCT members rate and ensure that you include the name of your parish and mission community when booking.

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aims and objectives

Participants in this workshop will go away with:

  • A clear understanding of what project management can offer them
  • An approach to the phases of project management for use in their organisation
  • The ability to use a step by step approach project planning
  • Tools to further develop their project plans and management systems

about your tutor 

Dave Chapman

Dave has worked within and across the private, public and voluntary sectors over the last 25 years. This includes mining engineering, health care, mental health, physiotherapy, regeneration and economic development. Working in the voluntary sector, Dave has led the development and establishment of a community based organisation over a four year period. During this period he initiated and supported the development of a range of activities designed to engage local people in local plan making processes.

This work really fired his interest in land and asset based acquisition and community led development, and led to work with bassac and then Locality. Whilst with Locality, Dave was involved in managing and delivering a number of programmes of support for community based organisations, including Neighbourhood Planning and Community Right to Build.

Dave now fully pursues his passion for supporting community led development through Triformis, a small consultancy company. He is an experienced practitioner and supporter of community enterprises with specific skills in community led development, brokerage and negotiation around and property deals, strategic planning, business planning and organisational development as well as programme and project management.

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SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Please let Support Services know if there is anything that would affect your learning and if there is anything we can do to enable you to fully participate in our courses and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Call Support Services on 01392 248919 or email info@devoncommunities.org.uk