Principles of Project Management Training for Better Execution

“LSA’s Principles of Project Management Training facilitator is one of the best I have ever worked with. His efforts and work in teaching complex and intensive Project Management principles across all levels and backgrounds within our organization have been of the highest value.”
Leslie Guzman | Learning and Development | Roche LLC

Principles of Project Management Training for High-Performing Teams

Description
This customized workshop focuses on the key principles of project management training tools and techniques that have the greatest impact on project success for your specific project. This one to three-day project management program presents proven project techniques (and how they have evolved to guarantee success in today’s fast-past changing environment) in the context of four core project manager responsibilities:

Define the project
Plan the project
Execute and Control the project
Close out the project

Specific techniques such as Work Breakdown Structure and Resource Leveling will be presented with highly experiential activities to practice and get feedback on each technique. Emphasis is placed not only on how to perform the technique, but also on when and why. It’s the key knowledge every project manager needs to succeed.

To support the effective application of the techniques learned, the project life cycle is related to development life cycles (process methodologies). In addition, real world project challenges presented in class offer hands-on opportunities for participants to identify specific project management tools to help solve each problem.

While this is not a traditional leadership course, it acknowledges that project managers are in leadership roles, and accordingly emphasizes the leadership aspect of each technique. By teaching participants how the project management tool set enables them to satisfy all their stakeholders – sponsors, management, customers and the project team – this course allows the project manager to achieve success on many levels.

Principles of Project Management Training Benefits

Create realistic project schedules
Get the most from project management software using the 5 steps of project planning
Create effective project plans with clear responsibilities and milestones
Identify problems when they are still small enough to solve
Transform ambiguous projects into focused, productive projects with tangible results

Principles of Project Management Training Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Understand how project management can increase productivity, improve communication and reduce costs
Systematically apply the proven techniques of project management to define, plan and control a project
Create a project plan using standard project management techniques
Use the project plan to manage the team, customers, management and project sponsors
Understand the relationship between the science of project management and the art of leadership

Principles of Project Management Training Course Outline

1. Successful Projects

Why project management?
Project success factors
What is a project?
The goal of project management
Project management responsibilities
Project life cycle
Product development lifecycles

2. Project Definition

Project definition: Establishing the rules of the game
Identify project stakeholders
Create a project statement of work
Develop a Project Responsibility matrix
Publish a project charter

3. Project Planning

The project plan
The project work breakdown structure
Define project task relationships
Make project work package estimates
Determine the initial project schedule
Assign and level project resources
Accurate project estimating
Project estimating techniques

4. Project Control

Monitoring project cost and project schedule
Planning for Project Quality
Project Change control
Project communication
Project close out
Project Corrective action

5. Project Leadership

Project manager skills
Project art based on project science

6. Lessons Learned

Target Audience:
Anyone associated with projects benefits from understanding the tools of project management. Project managers and project team leaders, project managers with multiple projects, and project team members with special assignments will get the greatest benefit from this course.

This workshop is often tailored to focus on your specific project management tools, project management practices, and project software. It is also often used as part of a project kickoff, definition, or planning phase by having an intact project team work on their actual project throughout the course.

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about Project Management Training program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.

Related Information

We have found LSA to be highly responsive to meeting our unique project management training program needs. Their passion for high levels of customer satisfaction and quality align very closely with our core values.

Kudos to LSA Global for the custom program that they provided my team. It was exactly what I wanted, and your team did a great job of engaging our group and providing the solid Project Management skills that we need.

Laura McHugh
Director

The project management training program was fantastic. It could not have gone any better. It was extremely helpful to me as a manager to be strategic during a time of explosive growth and change. It was fully customized to our industry and our needs, everyone came out of it with a solid direction of next steps. We are excited to take the next steps with LSA Global and to implement the project management best practices in a way that works for our unique culture.

Karen M. Inzilla
Director, Sales Operations

We recently designed and implemented two high value Project Management Workshops with LSA. The goal was to improve the fundamental project management skills for less experienced project managers and team members and to prepare our experienced project managers to become PMP certified. The programs were very well received and additional sessions have been requested. Both facilitators were excellent, building strong rapport with our scientists and taking time to encourage & answer questions. Based upon the results and the feedback around the company, the next workshops are already full. I highly recommend LSA to any company looking to take their project management skills to the next level.

Stacey Porter
Senior Manager Learning & Development

LSA’s ability to do an effective project postmortem and then help us to use those insights to define and plan our next strategic project were invaluable. Their practical approach and built-for-purpose project kickoff and definition methodology have definitely taken our project definition, project planning, and project management skills to the next level.

I bet they helped us to move 4 times faster than we would have without their help.

Elizabeth Smith, PMP
Senior Project & Portfolio Manager

The customized Program Management Leadership workshop was exceptional—highly engaging, practical, and immediately actionable. The team gained valuable strategies to strengthen execution excellence, elevate program leadership, and drive meaningful impact on the company’s growth.

Scott Bordelon
Senior Principal Engineering Program Manager

LSA did a great job. The project management solution was really well done from both a content and approach perspective. Overall a very positive experience that provided a lot of value. They really understood the art and science of project management and the specifics of our industry.

Laxmi Peri
VP Technology & Product Development

Thanks for a great and valuable session. The Project Management expertise and methodology that you brought to the table was perfectly targeted to our needs and our company. You definitely helped us launch an important step in driving best practice company standards around project management. I highly recommend this workshop to anyone looking to improve project management skills and methodologies.

Bill Thayer
VP Field Operations

LSA’s Project Management facilitator is one of the best I have ever worked with. His efforts and work in teaching complex and intensive Project Management principles across all levels and backgrounds within our organization have been of the highest value.

Leslie Guzman
Learning and Development

LSA recently designed and delivered a project postmortem for a highly strategic project with a group of 25 team members from engineering, design, marketing, product management, sales, manufacturing, purchasing, business development, research, and finance. The pre-workshop diagnostic, interviews, and experiential session greatly exceeded our expectations.

We were able to honestly and effectively get everything out on the table, agree upon key lessons, and create a targeted action plan that made sense for our unique situation, team, and culture. The whole process made a very complex and potentially political situation a big success. We could not have done the retrospective without LSA.

Eric Vernon
Director of Operations

We hired LSA to design and deliver a Project Postmortem for sixty five key people on a mission critical project with a very tight turnaround. LSA’s ability to identify the key trends, leverage points, and next steps was remarkable.

They really got to the heart of the issues in a constructive and unbiased manner that exceeded our expectations.

It was not an easy task with so many skeptical people with different agendas, styles, experience, and perspectives. But they nailed it. Thank you!

Darrell Gallagher
Head of Studio

We turned to LSA Global to help us take our project risk management practices to the next level. As we continue to grow and our projects are increasing significantly in complexity, it is imperative that we incorporate risk management best practices deeper into our Delivery and Project Management methodologies to continue to increase productivity, efficiency, and client satisfaction. I am really happy with the results and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take project risk management to the next level.

Scott Wassmer
US Director of Production

FAQs

Principles of project management training teaches the foundational concepts, tools, and behaviors required to successfully plan, execute, and manage projects. The training focuses on practical project management principles such as defining scope, managing timelines and resources, improving communication, mitigating risks, and maintaining accountability to achieve desired business outcomes.

The customized training is valuable for project managers, team leaders, functional managers, emerging leaders, and cross-functional teams responsible for delivering initiatives and driving execution. It is especially useful for organizations seeking to improve collaboration, strengthen execution discipline, and build consistent project management capabilities across teams.

Participants learn how to establish clear project goals, define deliverables, manage resources effectively, communicate with stakeholders, identify and address risks, monitor progress, and adapt to changing priorities. The training also strengthens project and team leadership, collaboration, decision-making, and accountability skills that are essential for successful project execution.

Organizations with strong project management capabilities are better able to execute strategy, manage complexity, reduce delays, and improve operational efficiency. Effective project management training increases alignment, improves communication across teams, strengthens accountability, and helps organizations deliver projects more consistently on time and within budget.

Organizations often benefit from project management training when projects regularly miss deadlines, exceed budgets, suffer from unclear priorities, experience communication breakdowns, or struggle with shifting requirements and accountability gaps. Targeted training helps create a more disciplined, proactive, and aligned approach to execution that improves both project outcomes and overall business performance.