PCCA Journal|3
rd
Quarter 2015
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tributes, qualitatively and quantitatively
Project Start-Up
• Generate and gain positive project momentum
• Identify and share key project issues, strategies, methods
and milestones
• Make use of checklists
• Initiate effective communication with the project team
• Create and maintain a cooperative team environment
Personal Feedback: ProScan & 360° Feedback
• Understand the importance of feedback in personal and
professional development
• Understand the impact of organizational culture on honest
feedback
• Understand how PDP and 360° feedback are used at the
PMA
• Adjust working and communication strategies based on
personal strengths and weaknesses
Team Debriefing
• Focus on completing PDP/360 feedback questions and
preparation
Day 2 - January 12, 8 am - 7:30 pm
Safety Focus
Customer-Focused Construction
• Understand the value of the customer
• Use tools to develop an appropriate, client-centered re-
sponse to issues
• Implement a customer-focused strategy for your project
and firm
Time Management
• Understand that it’s about self-management more than
time management
• Discover the keys to delegation and prioritization
• Understand the importance of life balance and its contribu-
tion to our overall productivity
• Gain insight into personal strengths and weaknesses re-
garding your mastery of time
Sample Project Preparation
Build Sample Project and Owner Presentations
Billings, Cash Flow, and Closeout
* Continually monitor and act on the current cash situation
* Billing accurately and promptly
* Learn to drive everything on a project to closure
Build Sample Project
Team Debriefing
• Focus on delivering plus/delta feedback to each other (par-
ticipants) based on their performance on sample project
and their PDP/360 feedback sessions
Day 3 - January 13, 8 am - 7:30 pm
Safety Focus
Change Order Management
Identify and evaluate all changes
* Identify cost and schedule implications of changes
* Use changes as an opportunity to sell increased value
* Maintain an appropriate balance between capturing all
changes and maintaining positive client relationships
Build Sample Project
Job Set-Up, Safety, and Logistics for Power and Commu-
nications Industry
• Discuss the unique challenges of working in the power and
communications industry; remote location and residential
• Special equipment, tools, and materials
• Plan for safety
• Technical consideration
Build Sample Project
Standards and Best Practices
• Explain the benefits of identifying and using standard pro-
cedures derived from best practices
• Use flow-charting to understand, develop, and improve
standard procedures on the project or in your company
• Communicate standard procedures to project teams
• Establish a team culture in which best practices are em-
braced and leveraged
• Identify situations in which it is appropriate to use non-
standard procedures
Build Sample Project
Team Debriefing
Day 4 - January 14, 8 am - 3 pm
Safety Focus
Ethics and Integrity in Project Management
• Leverage the project management role into a key client
relationship anchor
• Build relationships with existing clients leading to repeat
work opportunities
Sample Project Closeout
• Discuss lessons learned that can be applied back in the real
world
• Test the projects
Stand and Deliver
• As communicators, all project managers need to have
exemplary presentation skills
PCCA Project Manager Academy
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