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Project Management Essentials - Aug 2025

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Tue, 19 Aug 2025, 9am - 4pm NZST

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Date:

  • Tuesday 19 August 2025 (bookings close 12noon Friday 15 August 2025 unless sold out prior).

    Are you a budding project manager or a professional looking to sharpen your skills? Our 1-Day Project Management Essentials course is designed for you! Whether you’re new to the field or need a refresher, this intensive program covers everything you need to manage projects effectively and confidently.

    What You’ll Learn

    • The Profession of Project Management: Understand the role of a project manager and the critical impact of project management on organisational success.
    • Scope Definition & Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Learn how to define project scope clearly and break it down into manageable components with a Work Breakdown Structure.
    • Controlling Changes: Master the art of change management to keep your projects on track and within scope.
    • Estimating Techniques: Discover reliable techniques for estimating time, cost, and resources to avoid project overruns.
    • Preparing a Project Schedule: Gain the skills to create realistic and achievable project schedules that meet stakeholder expectations.
    • Stakeholder & Communications Management: Learn how to identify stakeholders and manage communications effectively to ensure everyone is aligned and informed.
    • Team Development: Build, develop, and lead high-performing project teams to deliver successful outcomes.
    • Closing a Project: Understand the steps to properly close out a project, ensuring that all objectives are met, and lessons learned are documented.


    Outcomes You Can Expect

    • Enhanced Competence: You’ll leave with a strong understanding of the core concepts of project management, ready to apply them to real-world projects.
    • Increased Confidence: Gain the confidence to manage projects from start to finish, effectively handle changes, and lead your team to success.
    • Practical Tools: Walk away with practical tools and techniques that you can implement immediately in your work.
    • The 6 hours of tuition counts towards the required 35 hours of project management training required as part of eligibility for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) credential exam requirements.

    This course is ideal for

    • Aspiring project managers, coordinators or administrators seeking foundational knowledge
    • Current project managers looking to refresh and expand their basic skills
    • Professionals involved in project work who want to understand the bigger picture
    • Team leaders and managers who need to effectively understand project management projects within their teams

    Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your project management skills and boost your career. Enrol now and take the first step towards becoming an exceptional project manager!

    Course Facilitator - Sean Whitaker

    Sean Whitaker, BA, MSc, MBA, PMP is widely respected around the globe as a practical project management consultant. He has provided advice to organizations in the transportation, government, space exploration, information, technology, software development and construction industries.

    He has provided training from introductory level, to PMP exam preparation, to lecturing to postgraduate students to thousands of successful project management practitioners around the globe and is the author of many books on project management.


    This Course is $1,050.00pp including GST and Humanitix booking fees.
    Course fees include catering (all dietary requirements catered for) and booking fees

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