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16 June 2009
Project Management Qualifications Comparison
Project Management is a growing profession and an increasingly important one for career development. Employers are placing more importance on Project Management Qualifications so it is important to choose the right one. The new version of our project management qualifications comparison table is now available. Please contact Steve Kendall for further information steve.kendall@oxfordprojects.co.uk

18 May 2009
How good are your project managers?
COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
This is a question that has been taxing the minds of directors for many
years, and now there is an answer! We have designed a competency
assessment tool based on the International Association for Project
Management (IPMA) competency framework, which assesses:

• technical
• contextual
• behavioural competencies

The questionnaire can be tailored to fit in-house job descriptions and if it is
combined with de-briefing interviews can provide project managers with a
comprehensive development plan. For more information please contact
ron.ford@oxfordprojects.co.uk

12 March 2009
Top Team Development
We are currently working with one of our clients to develop the capabilities of the board of directors to work towards a new strategy. We have helped them to put a plan in place, designed a 360 degree assessment, incorporated Myers-Briggs profiles and designed a 2 day workshop.

Technical specialist consultancy
We have just finished a year long programme to re-design and deliver an 'Internal Consultancy Skills' programme for one of our clients. This 3 day programme is aimed a world class technical specialists who need to be able to offer their skills within the global organisation.

Implementing a project based approach to change - In less than a year we have helped one organisation to become self-sufficient in their ability to set up and deliver change projects. We have trained and steered the internal team, who have now designed their own methodology.

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PCT training

We have just completed our first non-clinical training event for Bristol PCT.
A group of Practice Managers participated in a 2-day workshop, designed to provide them with a toolkit for managing changes in the Primary Care setting.

Project Management qualifications

The Association for Project Management Body of Knowledge (BoK) sets out all the areas of knowledge that project and programme managers need to know and all qualifications are based on it. For a copy of the latest BoK visit the APM website.

The APM Introductory Certificate (IC) in Project Management

Oxford Projects have contributed comments and improvements to the IC syllabus over the last year. Ron Ford is a member of the IC professional development panel which oversees the content and delivery of the syllabus throughout the UK. Ron has contributed to the study Guide for this qualification.

Next public programme

We deliver the APM Introductory Certificate in Project Management course via the CIPD. For details, including schedule and costs, please visit the CIPD web site.