Thinking about upskilling in project management?

Project Management Consultant and Teacher Sean Whitaker has a wealth of project management experience across a range of industries. Now, he's now bringing that experience to online learners through our short course, Professional Project Management.

Keen to know more? We sat down with Sean to discuss the benefits of this course and his top project management tip... 

What benefits do project management skills offer professionals working in other roles? 

The skills of project management are useful for anybody and everybody no matter what sort of job that they have. You may be asked to provide an estimate of how long a task will take or 'how much it will cost?', in which case Professional Project Management offers tools and techniques from the profession of project management to enable you to do that. You may also be asked to contribute to team development to increase performance and, once again, this course gives you those type of skills to achieve this.

The profession of project management is a very broad profession in relation to the knowledge that you must know. Somewhere in this breadth of knowledge our tools and techniques will be useful to you - no matter what your role is.

What's exciting about a career in project management? 

A career in project management is incredibly exciting for a variety of reasons. There aren't many careers that offer you the diversity of experience that you'll get in the project management field. This diversity comes from the nature of projects being time limited, which means that eventually you'll stop working on one project when it's complete and move on to something new. You can also be working on multiple projects at the same time and that comes with its own sets of challenges.

Additionally, project management is applied in a very wide range of industries from construction to software development, research and development to organizational change, and many other industries. So, if you choose project management as a career you can choose the type of industry you want to work in and the types of projects as well.

Learn more and enrol in Professional Project Management via Tuihono UC here. 

What's the power of good project management? 

Most organizations achieve their strategic and operational goals through the successful delivery of projects. Having competent personnel delivering these projects is absolutely essential to the success of them.

Organizations can expect that any one of their staff completing this course will be better at delivering projects and be more successful in helping the organization achieve its goals.

Do you have a top project management tip? 

If I was to give somebody a single project management tip, it would be to keep investing in your own professional development. To be the best project manager that you can be means continuously learning and applying this learning to your own projects.

With that in mind, what does Professional Project Management offer experienced project managers? 

For the experienced project manager this course offers a complete overview of the entire project management body of knowledge. So even somebody with experience in managing projects will find value in the content.

It will also give learners different ways of thinking about some of the tools and techniques they may be familiar with, some of the alternatives open to them and better ways to use them.