Courses for Experienced Project Managers

The CEPM program gives experienced and senior-level project managers the chance to master the advanced skills they need to better lead project teams toward strategic organizational goals.

Courses

The courses in the program are divided into three knowledge and competency areas that have been identified as key skills to propel experienced project managers to the next level:

• Advanced Knowledge provides a focused, in-depth understanding of project management principles and practices.
  
  
  • Leading Complex Projects
  • Managing Global Projects
  • Rapid Assessment and Recovery of Troubled Projects
  • Requirements Management: A Key to Project Success
  • Unlocking the Power of Earned Value Management

• Leadership and Negotiations focuses on the "human" element within the project life cycle with emphasis on leadership, negotiation and team relations.
  • Leading High-Performing Project Teams
  • Leading Project Managers
  
  
  
• Strategic Organizational Practice focuses on using project and program management concepts and processes to facilitate organization-wide initiatives and to meet specific organizational goals.
  
  
  • Aligning Project Management with Organizational Strategy
  • Program Management
  • Taking Charge of Organizational Change

Courses for Experienced Project Managers may be taken individually to meet specific needs or as part of the requirements to obtain an Advanced Master's Certificate in Project Management. These courses may also be applied as electives toward the Master's Certificate in Project Management or the Master's Certificate in Information Technology Project Management. A course may be applied toward only one certificate.

Build Your Professional Credentials

Earn an Advanced Master's Certificate in Project Management or maintain your PMP® certification with valuable Professional Development Units (PDUs) earned while attending ESI's Courses for Experienced Project Managers.

What You'll Learn

Experienced project managers who complete these courses will learn to:

• Develop a recovery plan for any troubled project
• Develop and gain agreement upon requirements that meet specific business objectives
• Identify in-depth, cross-project risks consistently using the work breakdown structure and related tools
• Manage an organizational change by first ensuring that individuals have completed personal transitions
• Apply the five practices of exemplary leaders

How You'll Benefit

Courses for Experienced Project Managers will help you:

• Confront real-life project problems using experience gained from hands-on classroom challenges
• Innovate - bring new ideas to your organization and implement them
• Network to find out how your peers handle projects in organizations worldwide
• Address many of today's toughest project management challenges with increased knowledge and confidence

How You'll Learn

When you come to class, you'll find out how top-notch professionals in all kinds of industries are managing their projects. You'll swap stories of success and discuss when and where projects have failed in the past.

You'll obtain insights from instructors who have decades of project management experience. Most importantly, you'll work together to use effective project management techniques to solve problems and analyze case studies. ESI teaches you project success through teamwork. More about the ESI classroom experience.

Simulation Component

In addition to ESI's dynamic instructor-led training, some courses in the advanced certificate program offer a computer-based simulation component in which you will roll up your sleeves and go to work to solve real-world challenges. Much like a flight simulation for pilots, these simulations ensure that you are able to apply what you've learned in an ambitious, yet fun learning experience.