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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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