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The Training Triumvirate
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.
Most organizations of a reasonable size have training budgets, and many of them have specific spends per employee. Yet in these tight economic times, when the perception is that training dollars are where the first and biggest cuts occur, there are a remarkably large number of companies whose employees don’t use all of the training budget that is available to them.
I want to help you spend the dollars available to you, whether you have a personal budget, a team budget or just a department budget--and I want to introduce you to the project management training triumvirate!
Tri what?
Yeah I know--but I wanted to make it memorable for you. It’s Latin, and Google will happily answer any questions that you have on the origins. I’m not trying to turn you into Roman leaders though; I just want to identify three very distinct--but connected--categories of training that project managers should be focusing on. To be successful, you need to work to develop each of these areas. The three areas are:
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Project management skills: the basic skills required to run a project--time management, project planning, status reporting, etc
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Project process skills: the different approaches to project management and its elements--RUP vs. RAD, critical path vs. critical chain, etc.
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Soft skills: personal and team development--…
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