Why should you train non-Project Managers?

In this day and age, more than ever, it is important that everyone in your company achieves a basic level of project management.  Most companies have less funding and resource to output the same amount of work and regularly deal with complex and varied projects.

Over the course of the blog, I will explain why training your non-project managers (staff) in project management and the benefits it will bring to your company and team.

Common Understanding and Consistency 

It is well known that one of the main benefits of training all of your staff in project management, is that you will have a consistent delivery method across your business. Which will benefit; all projects going forward because staff members working on the project team will understand the language and approach, which is a winning formula to help deliver successful projects.

One of the most common reasons projects fail today is due to the lack of communication.  This occurs typically because those project teams don’t have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities within the project and no standardised approach or communication have been established.

By not laying out these foundations at the start of a project it makes things a lot more complicated, which in turn makes it inefficient.  So, by encouraging or sending your staff members on a project management training course, will eliminate these issues as your project leader will now know how to communicate effectively the approach, roles and responsibilities to the project team and all staff will have a good understanding. 

Learning and develop

Training all of your staff in project management will take your business to the next level!

Why? This is the right question!

Everyone you employ comes with different skill sets but through project management training, your employees will build on existing skills, they may already be proficient or develop new ones which will enable them to monitor projects more successfully for your business and become better leaders.

Though project management training your staff will learn how to develop detailed plans and how to implement and monitor projects successfully and to manage risk, so you can feel confident that nothing can derail your investment.  It will also have a good understanding of costing to ensure the project does not run over budget.

Other areas which you can see your employee skills improve in are stakeholder management and engagement, managing conflict, managing quality and dealing with change.

Greater-Scope and Profit

If you train all of your employees in project management this will enable your business to take more complex projects, increase the business capability and take on a greater scope of work.

This will have a positivity impact on your business by increasing your representation as a company who delivers which will provide new opportunities which will surely enhance the business overall profit level.

This is only some of the reasons you should consider training your employees in project management.

What does it all mean?

What does this mean?  In short, by sending all of your employees on a basic or in-depth project management training course will ensure that any investment you make, you can be confident that your projects run effectively and successfully.  Overall reducing resource, time, cost and stress to your business as a whole.