Report.pdf
Report.pdf
Each Session has same 5 days course topics. Applicants need to select one of the Session for participation.
Basel, Switzerland
I Session: Sunday, 4 May (Arriving Day) - Sunday, 11 May (Departure Day), 2025
Class Days: 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 May, 2025
Free day for participants: 10 May, 2025 (Lunch not included)
II Session: Sunday, 1 June (Arriving Day) - Sunday, 8 June (Departure Day), 2025
Class Days: 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 June, 2025
Free day for participants: 7 June, 2025 (Lunch not included)
III Session: Sunday, 15 June (Arriving Day) - Sunday, 22 June (Departure Day), 2025
Class Days: 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 June, 2025
21 June, 2025 - Free day for participants (Lunch not included)
Industry-Specific Professionals:
• Construction Managers and Engineers: Aspiring to streamline projects in their field with enhanced
planning and execution skills.
• Healthcare Administrators: Managing healthcare initiatives, new technology implementation, or
departmental restructuring.
• Educators and Academic Administrators: Applying project management principles to educational
reforms, curriculum design, or event organization.
• Marketing and Advertising Professionals: Coordinating campaigns, product launches, or market research
projects.
Broader Enthusiasts:
• Freelancers and Independent Contractors: Keen on managing their workflows and client projects
efficiently.
• Nonprofit and NGO Staff: Looking to improve the execution of community projects, fundraising
campaigns, or event management.
• Students and Fresh Graduates: Aspiring to build a strong skillset for entering the workforce with a
competitive edge.
• Gain a Competitive Edge: Project management skills are highly valued and can set you apart in the job
market.
• Enhance Your Skills: Learn best practices that can be applied immediately to ongoing projects.
• Career Advancement: These skills can open doors to higher salary prospects and advanced career
opportunities.
• Network with Peers: Connect with other professionals and expand your professional network.
• Expert Instruction: Learn from an experienced project management professional with extensive industry
knowledge.
Afternoon Session:
• 13:00 - 13:45: Task 4: Empower Team Members and Stakeholders
o Enablers: Organize around team strengths, support team task accountability, evaluate demonstration of task
accountability, determine and bestow levels of decision-making authority. (non-exhaustive list)
• 13:45 - 14:30: Task 5: Ensure Team Members/Stakeholders Are Adequately Trained
o Enablers: Determine required competencies, align with training objectives, develop training plans, conduct
training, measure training outcomes. (non-exhaustive list)
• 14:30 - 14:45: Short Break
• 14:45 - 15:30: Task 6: Build a Team
o Enablers: Appraise team skills, maintain team knowledge transfer, promote team cohesiveness, investigate
team dysfunctions. (non-exhaustive list)
• 15:30 - 16:15: Task 7: Address and Remove Impediments, Obstacles, and Blockers
o Enablers: Determine critical impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team, prioritize them, use networks
to implement solutions, reassess continually to ensure they are being addressed. (non-exhaustive list)
• 16:15 - 17:00: Task 8: Negotiate Project Agreements
o Enablers: Analyze the bounds of the negotiations, assess priorities and determine ultimate objectives, verify
agreement. (non-exhaustive list)
Morning Session:
• 09:00 - 09:30: Recap of Day 1
o Review key concepts and tasks covered on Day 1
• 09:30 - 10:15: Task 9: Collaborate with Stakeholders
o Enablers: Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders, optimize alignment between stakeholders' needs and
project objectives, build trust and influence stakeholders. (non-exhaustive list)
• 10:15 - 10:30: Short Break
• 10:30 - 11:15: Task 10: Build Shared Understanding
o Enablers: Break down the situation to identify root causes, survey all necessary parties to reach consensus,
support outcome of parties' agreements, investigate potential misunderstandings. (non-exhaustive list)
Afternoon Session:
• 13:00 - 13:45: Task 12: Define Team Ground Rules
o Enablers: Communicate organizational principles with team and external stakeholders, establish an
environment that fosters adherence to ground rules, manage and rectify ground rule violations. (non-
exhaustive list)
• 13:45 - 14:30: Task 13: Mentor Relevant Stakeholders
o Enablers: Allocate the time to mentor, recognize and act on mentoring opportunities. (non-exhaustive list)
• 14:30 - 14:45: Short Break
• 14:45 - 15:30: Task 14: Promote Team Performance through the Application of Emotional Intelligence
o Enablers: Assess behavior through the use of personality indicators, analyze personality indicators and adjust
to the emotional needs of key project stakeholders. (non-exhaustive list)
• 15:30 - 16:15: Introduction to Domain 2: Process
o Task 1: Execute Project with the Urgency Required to Deliver Business Value
▪ Enablers: Examine the business value throughout the project, support the team to subdivide project tasks,
assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally. (non-exhaustive list)
Morning Session:
• 09:00 - 09:30: Recap of Day 2
o Review key concepts and tasks covered on Day 2
• 09:30 - 10:15: Task 3: Assess and Manage Risks
o Enablers: Determine risk management options, evaluate risk management outcomes, prioritize risks,
implement risk response plan. (non-exhaustive list)
• 10:15 - 10:30: Short Break
• 10:30 - 11:15: Task 4: Engage Stakeholders
o Enablers: Analyze stakeholder needs, engage stakeholders in project decision-making, manage stakeholder
expectations, maintain stakeholder relationships. (non-exhaustive list)
Morning Session:
• 09:00 - 09:30: Recap of Day 3
o Review key concepts and tasks covered on Day 3
• 09:30 - 10:15: Task 10: Manage Project Changes
Enablers: Anticipate and embrace the need for change (with an emphasis on controlled project change),
determine strategy to handle changes, execute change management strategy, determine and use appropriate
change tools and techniques. (non-exhaustive list)
• 10:15 - 10:30: Short Break
• 10:30 - 11:15: Task 11: Plan and Manage Procurement
o Enablers: Determine procurement needs, establish procurement strategy, establish agreements and contracts,
manage contract and procurement activities, close contracts. (non-exhaustive list)
• 11:15 - 12:00: Task 12: Manage Project Artifacts
o Enablers: Determine the requirements for managing the project artifacts, validate that project information is
kept up-to-date, continually assess the effectiveness of the management of project artifacts. (non-exhaustive
list)
Afternoon Session:
• 13:00 - 14:00: Task 13: Determine Appropriate Project Methodology/Methods and Practices
o Enablers: Assess project needs, constraints, and assumptions; recommend project execution strategy;
recommend a project methodology; use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project lifecycle (non-
exhaustive list).
Morning Session:
• 09:00 - 09:30: Recap of Day 4
o Review key concepts and tasks covered on Day 4
• 09:30 - 10:30: Task 17: Plan and manage project/phase closure or transitions
o Enablers: Determine criteria to successfully close the project or phase, validate readiness for transition (e.g.,
to operations team or next phase), conclude activities to close out project or phase (e.g., final lessons learned,
retrospective, procurement, financials, resources) (non-exhaustive list).
• 10:30 - 10:45: Short Break
• 10:45 - 12:00: Introduction to Domain 3: Business Environment
o Overview of Business Environment domain and its significance
o Task 1: Plan and Manage Project Compliance
▪ Enablers: Confirm project compliance requirements, classify compliance categories, determine potential
threats to compliance, use methods to support compliance, analyze the consequences of noncompliance,
determine the necessary approach and action to address compliance needs. (non-exhaustive list)
Afternoon Session:
• 13:00 - 13:45: Task 2: Evaluate and Deliver Project Benefits and Value
o Enablers: Investigate that benefits are identified, validate that measurement criteria are defined, evaluate
delivery options to demonstrate value, appraise stakeholders of value gain progress. (non-exhaustive list)
• 13:45 - 14:30: Task 3: Address Internal and External Business Environment Changes for Impact on Scope
o Enablers: Survey changes to the internal and external business environment, assess and prioritize impact on
project scope, recommend options for scope changes, continually review external business environment
changes. (non-exhaustive list)
• 14:30 - 14:45: Short Break
• 14:45 - 16:00: Task 4: Support Organizational Change
o Enablers: Assess organizational culture, evaluate the impact of organizational change to project, determine
required actions to address the organizational change. (non-exhaustive list)
• 16:00 - 17:00: Final Review and Q&A
o Focus on the most critical and challenging areas
o Addressing any final questions
o Providing additional resources and study tips
Participation Fee: All the fees stated below are calculated per participants.
- Early Bird Application Fee with Single Room: 2150EUR
- Early Bird Application Fee with Double Room: 1900EUR
- Early Bird Application Fee without Accommodation & Breakfast: 1500EUR
Organizer
Institute for Peace and Dialogue (IPD) is an independent, international non-profit and non-religious institute
located and registered in Basel, Switzerland where it dedicates itself in the promotion of the prevention of
conflicts between and within states, organizations and individuals by implementing academic programs and
strengthening institutional dialogue between state institutions, private entities and civil society organizations.
IPD invites state institutions, companies, INGOs, think tank centres, researchers, media and interested public
actors to the cooperation and implementation of creative, innovative, effective and sustainable initiatives for the
sake of empowering constructive intercultural dialogue, mediation, global governance, leadership
responsibility, peaceful conflict transformation, active world citizenship, human rights defence, security and
welfare.
Our Vision
Our vision is the education of an institutionalized civil society platform in peace-building, mediation, conflict
transformation and intercultural dialogue, to convey a peaceful approach and behavior.
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower state, public and private institutions capacities in peacebuilding, conflict resolution,
mediation and intercultural dialogue fields to build up a solution-oriented positive thinking in their work,
community and family in order to have institutional impact for the sake of whole society development.
With over 15 years of experience in project management and a proven track record across diverse industries, Project
Management trainer is dedicated to empowering professionals through comprehensive project management courses. Their
expertise includes:
• Educational Background: Master of Business Administration in European Management, Berlin School of Economics
and Law.
• Certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, PSM I, PSPO I.
• Industry Experience: Healthcare, Consulting, IT & Services, Retail, Automotive.
• Training Expertise: Successfully conducted over 50 project management training sessions, supporting the
development of more than 1,000 professionals with a 95% success rate in achieving their goals