Project Management (APM accredited) Short course
- Level(s) of Study: Short course
- Course Fee:
£995
- Start Date(s): 11 June 2025
- Duration: Three days
- Study Mode(s): Part-time
- Campus: City Campus
- Entry Requirements: More information
Introduction:
Projects are the driving force behind innovation, growth, and achieving strategic goals in business. They transform ideas into tangible outcomes, whether it’s launching new products, improving processes, or expanding market reach. However, without effective project management, businesses risk inefficiencies, missed deadlines, and budget overruns.
Project management provides structure, ensuring resources are allocated efficiently and objectives are met on time. It fosters clear communication, minimises risks, and keeps teams aligned with the organisation’s vision. In a competitive market, strong project management is essential for delivering consistent value, maintaining customer satisfaction, and ensuring long-term business success.
Support your development of project management knowledge, skills and behaviours that lead to effective project delivery with this course, in addition to building your understanding of the tools and techniques that support efficient and productive operational performance.
This course is accredited by the Association for Project Management (APM) the Chartered Body for the project management profession. This prestigious accreditation ensures a high standard of relevance and excellence.
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This is an accredited course, meaning you'll get 20 credits at Level 5. -
The demand for Project Managers is seeing unprecedented employment growth. -
This course is accredited by the Association for Project Management (APM), the Chartered Body for the project management profession.
What you’ll study
Who is the course for?
Project management training benefits a wide range of professionals across all levels of a business. Team leaders and managers gain the tools to plan, execute, and oversee projects effectively, ensuring goals are met efficiently. Employees involved in project execution, from coordinators to specialists, develop skills in task prioritisation, risk management, and collaboration.
Senior executives can also benefit, understanding project management principles to align initiatives with strategic objectives. Additionally, individuals transitioning into leadership roles gain confidence and expertise. Ultimately, anyone involved in planning, executing, or supporting projects can thrive with project management training, boosting team success and organisational outcomes.
As such, this course is suitable for anyone venturing into project management whether in their current role or seeking a new role, whether looking to engage in projects for the first time or maximise the potential of projects in meeting organisational strategies.
Course overview
The content for this course is split into 12 sections in order to provide a thorough overview of project management in addition to aligning to the Association for Project Management’s Body of Knowledge. The details of these sections are listed in the programme overview.
Through the delivery of this course, participants will secure knowledge of the theory behind effective project management in addition to experience of applying and testing the tools used in project delivery.
This latter element is designed to be undertaken in a critically reflective way to ensure that there is a clear understanding of why tools and models are used and how these can be adapted to suit the specific needs of the project to be delivered.
Benefits to your organisation
In today’s fast-paced business environment, efficient project management is the backbone of success. Investing in project management training equips your team with essential skills to streamline processes, boost productivity, and achieve goals on time and within budget. Training empowers employees to prioritise tasks, manage resources effectively, and mitigate risks, reducing costly errors.
Project management skills also foster better collaboration and communication, ensuring everyone stays aligned with project objectives. With a standardised approach, your business gains consistency, driving higher client satisfaction and profitability.
Moreover, trained project managers adapt quickly to changing market demands, offering innovative solutions and competitive advantages. Whether you’re managing large-scale operations or smaller initiatives, project management training enhances team performance and leadership capabilities, enabling your business to thrive.
Project management training is the cornerstone for delivering excellence, exceeding expectations, and staying ahead in the market.
Accreditation gained
This course is accredited, gaining 20 credits at Level 5 when the assignment is completed and passed.
Day 1 - Wednesday 11th June 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm (in-person-session @ NTU City Campus)
Day 2 - Thursday 12th June 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm (in-person-session@ NTU City Campus)
Day 3 - Wednesday 25th June 2025, 9:30am-4:30pm (in-person-session@ NTU City Campus)
Day 4 - Thursday 3rd July 2025, 10:00am-12:00pm (online assessment)
Assignment submission date: Friday 1st August 2025
Session 1: Exploring the Project Management Context
- Implementing Strategy through Projects
- Understanding Project Lifecycles and Choices
This element considers the organisational environment in the selection of projects and their role in delivering benefits/outputs. This will also develop and understanding of the role of projects in driving organisational change.
This element considers the options available when developing project lifecycles. This acknowledges the importance of understanding the lifecycle that projects go through and how these can be utilised to plan project delivery.
Session 2: Project Infrastructure
- Establishing Project Governance
- Shaping the Project
This stage of the course considers principles of project governance, sustainable practices in projects and developing business cases for projects
Building from the previous elements, this part of the course considers the shaping of portfolios, programmes and projects and the operational adjustments needed to contribute to project success.
Session 3: Project Planning
- Defining Outputs
- Integrated Project Planning (Risk, Scheduling, Resource and Costs)
This element will build from session one where strategy progresses into project decisions including the defining of success and project benefits, the setting of objectives and requirements, options analysis and solution selection, and establishing the project scope.
This element considers the options and process relating to risk identification, analysis and mitigation planning, project scheduling, optimising resources, costs planning and contingency planning.
Session 4: People in Projects
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Leading Project Teams
This element of the course will develop an understanding of the identification, mapping and management of project stakeholders. This will also include an aspect of managing conflict with stakeholders.
This part of the course will establish processes and understanding around leading and developing co-located and virtual teams, the role of the project team leader and leadership styles, organisational culture, diversity and inclusion in projects and managing workplace stress.
Session 5: Delivering Projects
- Transitioning into Use
- Working Professionally in Projects
This element of the course considers the issues associated with project completion including project handover/business readiness, unplanned project endings and project closure.
This element of the course considers the crucial aspects of communicating and negotiating effectively, managing time, the regulatory environment in which projects operate in addition to project ethics and maximising continual professional development (CPD) through projects.
Session 6: Monitoring, Controlling and Closing Projects
- Assurance, Quality and Knowledge Management
- Monitoring and Controlling Projects
This aspect of the course investigates the structure around decision gates (project progress decision making), information management in projects and the quality assurance processes.
This element considers the management of project once in delivery and will investigate the processes for monitoring and reporting including risk, contingency and issues management in addition to managing change in projects.
How you’re taught
Delivery and Assessment
During delivery of the course, participants will work in small teams to apply the tools taught to a given project in order to build the knowledge and skills required to propose and initiate a project. This will be accompanied by a clear understanding of how projects should be delivered and managed once underway.
The assessment will build from the group work whereby participants will undertake an individual assessment, based on the skills they have developed in the group work, by applying the tools and their knowledge acquired to a project of their choosing.
The course will be delivered over 3 full days of learning and 1 online assessment workshop. The Assessment hand in date is Friday 1 August 2025.
Your Facilitator
This course is delivered by: Spencer Ryan-Prewitt and Joanna Booth
Spencer Ryan-Prewitt
Spencer is a former CEO of an Enterprise Agency with over 20 years of experience in supporting business start-up, growth and economic development through projects secured in the UK, Europe and North America.
He is also a Chartered Manager (CMgr) and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) in addition to being a Senior Fellow of Advance Higher Education (SFHEA).
Joanna Booth
Joanna is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Management, the course leader for the Chartered Management Degree Apprenticeship and course leader for the PGCert, PGDip, MSc in Management, Leadership and Administration in Higher Education.
Prior to working in academia, Joanna has had numerous roles within the not for profit sector including Finance manager where she provided strategic and operational financial management for a charity with a turnover of £1million. The role also included project management, finance and business development & advice.
Entry requirements
There are no course entry requirements.
Fees and funding
The cost for this programme is £995.
How to apply
Visit our application portal to apply for this course.
If you have any questions about this course;
- Email CPDShortCourses@ntu.ac.uk or call us at +44 (0)115 848 8904.