Management Development Program(MDP) on Project Management

Training/Coaching/Tuition by iFEEL (Institute for Future Education Entrepreneurship and Leadership) Pune View Contact

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Introduction:

When people see something impressive, a power plant 1000 MW in remote area or 8 lane express highway or any other large infrastructure project, they wonder how they did it. By they, obviously reference is towards creators, designers and builders, the people who actually made those things. Seldom do they wonder about the managers, the people who organized and lead the efforts that brought those wondrous things from a concept or idea into reality and without whose talent, skills and hard work most neat ideas would never amount to anything. This module is about the managers, executives, the mostly unsung heroes of infrastructure businesses who are behind practically every collective effort to create, develop or produce something.

Last two decades have seen businesses transformed from domestic to global, as a result, no matter what your perspectives are, there is more to everything to contend with – more ideas, competitors, resources, constraints and certainly more people doing and wanting things. All project activities have spurred a growing interest and need in ways to plan, organize and control projects to better meet the client needs, market and society within the bounds of limited time and resources.

This program is designed for engineers and officers of growing firms educate and train participants in project management processes, knowledge areas & general management areas. This program is about principles and practices, meaning the topics in it are practical applications and philosophies, as well as the nitty-gritty. It also include marketing, performance management, project management information system, international project management etc. areas to prepare participants for general manager's role in future. Right program content, right teaching method, faculty expertise and their hands on international experience of projects in power, steel, pulp & paper, renewable energy, IT and engineering etc. sectors helps participants to develop themselves in to world class Project Managers.

Objectives :
After attending the program participants will be able to;

• Discovering personal characteristics of a successful project manager and developing skills & competencies to become world class project manager
• Learning the science and art of managing most difficult clients, stake holders and employees
• Determining how to actively control projects and achieve highest earned value through Optimizing cost, quality, time and performance of projects
• Making right choices at the right time through analysis & decision making
• Managing to reduce risk & improve project performance
• Building high performance project teams
• Building project organization, crashing project schedules
• Understand and define project, project management, project life cycle, project types
• Develop marketing strategies for projects, develop client centric project organization, sales process, acquire global customers and compete worldwide, achieve highest client satisfaction & delight
• Better manage general management issues in infrastructure projects (including but not limited to operations, IT, Law, quality, marketing, finance, safety, Industrial relations etc.)
• Establish and maintain strategic relationship with suppply partners, Effective management of procurement and contracts
• Collate own experiences in systematic way and develop knowledge management framework
• Develop project management information system and perform project audit effectively
• Effectively manage mega projects in highly competitive environment

Session Plan:
MDP of Project Management focus is to develop & enhence key competencies of Project Management defined
by global certifications plus to develop ability of participants in the strategies areas like business perspective,
aligning project management with orverall organizational goals, pricing & bidding, marketing of projects,
contracts management, relationship management, performance management etc. as per client / participants
needs.

Teaching Method:

• Mix of teaching methods will be used during the program with a focus on skill development / skillenhencement through highly engaging experiential learning techniques
• Case studies of mega projects, infrastructure, roads & bridges, aiports, railway, ports, building construction, power, and other related businesses and companies from countries that participants would like to analysewhich are published by world's top 100 b-schools / industries
• Simulation, Video module, Group work and presentations by participants
• Faculty led lectures

Evaluation:
During and at the end of the program, participants will be evaluated and grading certificates will be issued to
all participants.

Who should participate ?
Chief Officers, directors, vice presidents, managers, head of departments, consultants of

From Industry sectors:

Faculty :
An IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus, Chartered Engineer (UK), participated in Harvard's executive education program,
an accredited management teacher, consultant and facilitator with 19 years of industry experience of working
in 18 countries. He has headed business unit of US $ 350 Mn in size managing 1200+ people in 5 geographic
locations in India, China and Europe. Currently he is heading a fast growing consulting and training firm having
clients in Europe, USA, India, China, Korea and Oman.

Note on intellectual property (program design):
This module is a customized module prepared based on inputs received from SSIB, Pune. This module note can
only be used by iFEEL for their clients by engaging KgGuruji faculties only. 

MDP programs have been developed to meet the needs of Junior & Middle Management, that covers a broad range of functional areas, in order to sharpen general management skills and expose participants to areas of management in which they have limited experience. It is also to enhance each participant's ability to think strategically, and develope their leadership and interpersonal skills in order to help them to be more effective team players.Managers need to continuously update themselves with the changes in business management practices to improve their decision making abilities.

iFEEL's customized MDP Programs can be linked with the performance assessment, providing opportunities forvertical and lateral growth to participants.

 AIMS & OBJECTIVES

1. To develop professionals with a combination of managerial and leadership capabilities to deliver organization success.

2. To brigde gaps in the areas of Knowledge, Skills, Attitude and Habits such that they are enabled to move ahead in their career.

3. To help improve management systems by competence building at various level in corporate, government and non - Government sectors.

4. To provide insights into managerial concepts and techniques relevant for formulating and implementing strategies in functional areas.

 SALIENT FEATURES

1. INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL: IFEEL faculty is drawn from a diversified pool of highly experience corporate professionals and academicians. The diverse background of our intellectual capital and vast experience provide valuable insight into the dynamics and challenging world of busines

2. INTERACTIVE TRAINING: Lonavala, Karla Campus, IFEEL's campus at Karla is one of the finest management education infrastructure in the country, be it the design or technology. The institute is located amidst lush green hills. The latest technology on campus provides executives with state-of-the art learning tools. The physical infrastructure provides the right ambience to stimulate the intellectual minds.

3. PEDAGOGY: IFEEL's MDP facilitates the executive to learn from various sources of knowledge – self learning, learning through interaction with the trainers, and with other executives. Learning includes role play, case studies, interactive classroom, simulations, presentations, workshop s and group brain storming.

4. OUTBOUND PROGRAMS (USP): This program lead by experts in the field helps participants learn through activities that are planned to communicate specific messages, but in an environment that facilitiates participants to open up. Many a times it unravels hidden talent, and has proven to be a fun way of learning and assimilating the learnings. Themes such as TEAM WORK, Leadership development are especially more effectively conveyed here.

Customised MDP's

Corporate packages are entirely tailor made to suit a client's training needs. A team of iFEEL first interacts with the management of the sponsor and acquaints itself with the company's Goals and objectives.

It then identifies specific gaps (training needs) which needs particular attention. Based on company's feedback a tailor made program is developed for the company, discussed and approval obtained.

Strategic Management Program

• Building Indian Multinational

• Corporate level strategy

• Corporate social responsibility

• Designing and Executing Competitive Strategies

• Global Strategic Management

• Risk Management

• Strategy – Sustaining competitive advantage

• Turnaround strategies: Turning loss to profit

• Key Executive Program

• Aligning strategies and sales

• Leadership development

• Advanced management program / General management program

• Vision, Mission and Values

• Corporate planning strategies

• Contract Manufacturing strategies

Leadership and Change

• Managing Employee performance management sysstem for corporate excellence

• Building organizational culture for performance

• Leading product innovation

• Genuine Leadership development

• Leadership for senior Executive

• Business leader·High potential leadership program

• Managing talent for strategic advantage

• Interpersonal dynamics for high-performance executives

• Encouraging and developing entrepreneurs

• Innovative business practices

Operations Management

• Strategies and leadership in supply chain

• Make or Buy? Outsourcing Dilemma

• Strategic Project Management

• Operations strategy and Manufacturing in a global village

• Achieving sustainable competitiveness through Lean Transformation across organization

• Increasing inventory turnover

• Operation and maintenance management

• Production planning and control

• Theory of constraints

• Poka Yoke – Mistake Proofing

• Strategic quality management

• 7 QC and 7 New management tools for quality management.

Marketing and Sales Performance

• Strategic market planning for profitability and growth

• Advance sales force and distribution management

• CRM Strategies

• Leveraging distribution channels to achieve success in Indian markets

• Business to Business Marketing Strategies

• Cracking most difficult competitors

• Managing sales and people

• Customer centric management

• Customer Advocacy: Beyond CRM and Customer Delight

• Marketing services

Training, Learning, Teaching and development

• Train the Trainer

• Action learning

• Coaching and mentoring skills·Measuring and Evaluating learning

• Management games and simulation for trainers and facilitators

• Case method of teaching and training

Service Management Programs

• Building client management capabilities in professionals service firms

• Growing a professional service firm

• Leading professional service firm

• Managing and Transforming Professional service firm.

Finance

• Financial Management

• Foreign Exchange Risk Management

• International Finance

• Management of Finances

Personal Development, Skill Development Programs

• Lead your career

• Effective presentation skills

• Business Etiquettes and Interpersonal Skills

• Problem solving skills

• Strengthening workplace relationships

• Career planning and talent management

• Business communication skills

Outbound Training Programs

Overview
The experiential learning are very high energy programs and has emerged as holistic and vital tool of transfer of learning recently, the growing urge and emerging form is an testimony of this. One of the basic objectives of most MDP is to enhance organizational team bonding, the foundation of cohesive functioning and productivity. The Experiential programs are a training method for enhancing organizational performance through experiential learning and has proved itself as an effective training tool for management development and personality enrichment programs. Outbound training program helps generate fresh ideas and better attitudes and acts as a trigger for each individual to work together towards the fulfillment of larger objective and achieve individual goals and his / her organizational mission. The program serves to isolate the participants from the outside world and intend to take you through various shades of leadership journey outbound simulations enabling you to identify your path of success, know your virtues and drive to deal with dilemmas, conflict. The experiential nature of the activities provides participants the opportunity to observe their own behavior, experiment with modified behavior and observe the benefits of the changes behavior. 

Objectives

• Understanding one's leadership style and getting best out of it.

• Learning to overcome fears and confronting challenges.

• Managing time, anger and stress

• Developing self-confidence, positive attitude and motivation

• Personal development contributing to performing in a complex situation, problem solving skills, managing change, enhancing creativity.

 At the end of workshop participants will:

• Get an insight to developing team strategies for getting results, building trust, sharing feedback, arning importance of open communication.

• Developing the ability to be mentor and develop your subordinates.

• Have better understanding of self and others which is the basis of building and nurturing any relationship.

Methodology

 The program intends to use the experiential learning mainly emphasizing learning by doing. Sample activities and activities for the program are like, Australian walk: Team work for achieving common goals, Rappelling: overcoming fear of the unknown, can do attitude, surprising yourself and others, Mine Field: Team work, trust and communication under adverse condition, Team formation: Team names, briefing, program goals and expected outcomes.

There are approximately 100 games and outbound training program are custom designed not only to suit the multiple objectives of the companies but also with respect to the composition of the teams, i.e. physical status, age etc. The corporate packages are entirely tailor made to suit a clients training needs.

Who should attend

Program is designed for every executives / manager, who aspires to develop himself / herself as an effective leader in all spheres of work and life.

Faculty: Prof. Charuhas Joshi

He has been conducting outdoor management development programs for the last 15 years, and has pioneered artificial rock climbing in India and has conducted advance Rock Climbing courses for the last 28 years. He has done extensive trekking and climbing in Western Ghats and Himalayas and has reached the summit of 4 Himalayan peaks. He has climbed 27,000 feet plus, on Mt. Kangchenjunga the world's 3rd highest peak, in 1988.

Has been an advisor to institutes like ROOTS (Working in the field of outdoor educ a t ion s inc e 1989) , Girivihar (Mountaineering Club) in the field of teaching methodologies. He has been a trainer for their programmes and has imparted training on safety aspects and rescue techniques to various mountaineering clubs.

He has conducted outdoor MDPs for corporate houses like Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Infotech, Taj Group, L&T, HUL, HDFC, Luftansa Airways to name a few.

Programs and Facilities

Programs

1. MDP on Finance for Non-Finance Managers

2. MDP on Supply Chain Management

3. Management Development Program(MDP) on Project Management

4. MDP on Leading and Managing in Turbulent Times

Facilities

• Fully Wi-Fi Campus: A fully Wi-Fi campus is essential for the smooth functioning of students.

• Conference & Seminar Halls: The institute has spacious and fully air conditioned Conference & Seminar halls which provide an ideal setting for many thought provoking brain storming sessions. The institute organizes student presentations, group discussions, seminars, workshops and MDPs here. It is well equipped with audio visual aids with fine sound system and other state-of-the-art equipments.

• Open air Amphitheater: We provide an open air amphitheatre as a platform for exchange of knowledge through entertainment and interaction.

• Student Activity Areas: Sports form an essential part of an all round personality. iFeel has a volleyball court, a cricket & football ground, jogging tracks, a yoga zone and large open areas for outdoor games apart from indoor games that it provides.

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