Training
Project Management Training
Project Management training is our specialty. We offer a number of courses in the Project Management arena from Project Management Essentials, Practical and Professional to PMI® exam preparation, Agile, and Scrum courses.
With 15 years of expertise in providing leading soft skills training courses and development programs, Aspira’s interactive project management training courses will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage projects successfully.
From the moment you start your learning journey with Aspira, you will find that the training experience is different. Designed by subject experts, we’ve built the training course experience around the needs of busy business professionals, so that you can fit the learning into your working day, wherever you are. Our training is not just a once-off session but a journey, in an environment where the trainee learns, transforms and grows.
As a Project Consulting and Technology Company with a proven and flexible approach, we collaborate with you to deliver customised learning experiences in the following areas:
Project Management
Aspira’s 5 day PMP® exam preparation course will help you prepare for and successfully pass the PMP® Certification exam while also providing you with practical skills that will help you deliver projects more efficiently, and increase your competitive edge in the project management profession.
Why will this course prepare you better than others? Simply – Aspira is a Project Management Institute (PMI)® Authorized Training Partner (ATP). Training with a PMI® Authorized Partner ensures you are being trained using exclusive PMI-developed, licensed and approved PMP® exam preparation training content.
This virtual classroom course provides detailed insight into Project Management best practices. It is designed to help participants prepare for multiple Industry Certification Exams and improve their understanding of Project Management. Students who successfully complete this course are awarded a certificate from Aspira, and may be submitted to Certifying Bodies for inclusion against the certification requirements.
Our Accelerate Project Management Exam Preparation virtual classroom course provides detailed insight into Project Management best practices, exploring the most useful PM tools and techniques, framework and concepts. This course also prepares you for relevant Project Management certifications.
This 2 * ½ day introduction to Project Management is focused on teaching the fundamental management techniques and skills for organising and managing projects of all sizes.
Practical Project Management is designed to establish a detailed understanding of Project Management terms, concepts and methodologies. The hands-on approach of this course ensures trainees “learn by doing” and gain a step-by-step, real-time experience of using the tools and implementing the methodologies and support structures. In simulating real-life environments, trainees gather the detailed knowledge required to apply the training on return to their work environment.
This virtual classroom course is designed to be practical and ensures trainees “learn by doing” and gain a step-by-step, real-time experience of using the tools and implementing the methodologies and support structures. In simulating real-life environments, trainees gather the detailed knowledge required to apply the training on return to their work environment. The course uses the latest thinking from across the world of Project Management to enable participants to plan and deliver projects in a professional manner.
The PM Agile Certified Practitioner three-day training course is the perfect way to increase your knowledge and skills in this rapidly growing approach to project management. It provides knowledge of multiple agile approaches, tools and techniques and the skills to apply them to basic projects. It also prepares you to take certification exams by taking practice tests on the course.
Scrum Master Certification is suitable for anyone working on complex projects and looking to benefit from established principles and practices to deliver products successfully. Whether you’re working on the next smartphone app, managing logistics for a store, or planning the next big product launch, you can benefit from Scrum. This course will benefit anyone who seeks to achieve the role of ScrumMaster to drive a Scrum project and applies to those with a background as Customer/Users, Project Managers or Developers.
Professional Scrum Product Owner Training is suitable for anyone who wishes to achieve certification in the role of Product Owner, or those working on complex projects and looking to benefit from established Scrum principles and practices to deliver products successfully. Whether you’re working on the next smartphone app, managing logistics for a store, or planning the next big product launch, you can benefit from Scrum.
The number one factor that contributes to project success is gaining executive level support and sponsorship. The role of the project sponsor is critical – not only for helping the project team but for setting the expectations and standards for how the project is run in the organisation.
Professional Development
A project is only successful if individual employees change their daily behaviours and start doing their jobs in the new way. This course provides trainees with a playbook to follow to ensure their colleagues impacted by the change feel supported throughout the entire process. It supports them as they integrate the right tools at the right time to ensure all employees adopt and embrace the new ways of working.
The primary aim of this session is to ensure that Leaders feel equipped to lead and drive successful business change. Keeping teams connected and engaged in times of uncertainty can be very challenging – trainees will be introduced to practical tips and techniques they can apply to bring their impacted employees with them on the change journey.
Lean is a way of thinking that creates better end outcomes for Clients, employees and the company bottom line. This Lean basics session is designed to provide trainees with an introduction to Lean concepts and principles. They will learn about proven tools and techniques to help them improve their business processes.
This training course, delivered by an expert consultant, explores the complexities of working globally with stakeholders from different business cultures. We share some industry frameworks to understand the relative differences between cultures, in a manner which allows the participant to become self-aware of their own biases and sensitive to how to interpret others’ behaviours, to maximise the value of the organisation.
It’s important for organizations to recognize the vital role of strong communication skills within an organization. The ability to communicate information accurately, clearly and as intended, is a vital skill. This course looks at why communication is important and how to communicate effectively.
Teams and leaders encounter many challenges in the pursuit of successful completion of objectives. Among the challenges is the strong possibility of working with stakeholders who you may have no formal authority over, but the project success hinges on their cooperation with you. Understanding how to navigate the matrix environment and build relationships with key stakeholders comprises a constellation of capabilities from networking and coalition building to persuading and negotiating.
This ½ day Strategic Thinking course aimed at Team Leaders, Project Managers and Senior Leaders, will help you look at how to be more strategic in your thinking.
This course will help you learn key skills in giving and receiving feedback and understand the role these play in performance management.
This course will give you a high-level overview of the topics that need to be considered in undertaking a new leadership role including personal confidence and effectiveness.
Technology Training
This course will help you effectively use Microsoft Project for setting up projects, resource management, tracking progress, reporting and communicating to stakeholders. It is for project managers, team leaders and those involved in projects.
In a fast paced business environment accurate and timely data is key to making decisions quickly. Microsoft Power BI allows businesses to link disparate data sources, provide intuitive data analysis and present meaningful insights in understandable formats.
Our Power Bi course empowers learners to understand the requirements for integrating Power BI and to build data queries and presentations that will provide meaningful data to support business requirements.
Our training course shows how you can effectively manage the Teams environment to adopt it to your organisation and leverage the full potential of the platform to increase your teams productivity.
To support business intelligence activities, you may need to create and manage a Data Warehouse that structures and manages historical data. Our introduction to Data Warehousing outlines how to create an online data warehouse using cloud tools and create analysis environments to present data through tools such as Power BI.
Testimonials
Case Study
Stryker
To support the set-up of a Project Management Office (PMO) within Stryker and to introduce an enterprise wide bespoke Project Management training competency program.
