This advanced course equips delegates with essential skills to manage complex projects with precision, enabling them to optimise resource allocation, streamline workflows, and enhance decision-making through comprehensive reporting. By mastering techniques such as baselining, resource pooling, and data integration, participants will gain the ability to coordinate interconnected initiatives efficiently and maintain accurate project tracking throughout the lifecycle. The course is designed to elevate project management capabilities, ensuring delegates can deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes while fostering seamless collaboration across teams and stakeholders. These advanced competencies are critical for professionals seeking to drive efficiency, improve project visibility, and align strategic objectives with operational execution in dynamic environments.
Want to master advanced project management? This one day course helps delegates gain the expertise to streamline complex projects, boost team efficiency, and deliver results with confidence... Whether you're managing multiple initiatives or optimising resource use, this course equips you with tools to track progress, simplify recurring tasks, and create clear, actionable reports... Delivered as an open course, closed group training, or one-to-one coaching... It’s perfect for professionals seeking to elevate their skills and count towards six CPD hours... To find out more, contact us at let’s dash talk at eqv dot co dot uk.
Counts towards 6 CPD Hours1 DayOpen Public & Closed Group
Please reflect on one or more of the questions below and come prepared to discuss your responses during the session.
Self-Assessment: On a scale of 1–10, how would you rate your current skill level in this subject? What factors influenced your rating?
Development Focus: Identify one specific behaviour, skill, or capability you would like to improve or develop further.
Relevant Examples: If possible, bring one or two relevant examples or scenarios from your experience that you would be willing to share with the group.
What You Will Learn
Baselining Projects: Learn how to establish a baseline for your project, which serves as a reference point for measuring and tracking progress throughout the project lifecycle.
Combining Projects: Understand techniques for combining multiple projects into a single view or file, enabling better coordination and management of interconnected initiatives.
Resource Pooling: Explore resource pooling methods to efficiently manage and allocate shared resources across multiple projects, ensuring optimal resource utilisation.
Recurring Tasks: Learn how to set up and manage recurring tasks within your project plans, streamlining the handling of routine activities.
Reports: Master the generation and customisation of project reports, which provide valuable insights into project status, progress, and performance.
Templates: Create and utilise project templates to streamline the initiation and planning phases of new projects, saving time and ensuring consistency.
Importing: Understand how to import data, tasks, or resources from external sources into your project management software for seamless integration.
Exporting: Learn techniques for exporting project data and reports, enabling effective communication and sharing with stakeholders.
Your Post-Course Challenge
Complete the further practice workbook
Apply the techniques to your own data
Counts Towards 6 CPD Hours
This course contributes 6 hours of Continuing Professional Development. Delegates can log these hours as evidence of structured learning for professional bodies and employers.
This course is designed for professionals who already have a foundational understanding of Microsoft Project and are looking to enhance their ability to manage complex projects, optimise resource allocation, and generate insightful reports. Whether you're aiming to streamline workflows or improve cross-project coordination, this training will help you take your project management skills to the next level.
This course is ideal for:
Project managers seeking to refine their ability to track progress, manage resources, and produce detailed project reports
Team leads responsible for coordinating multiple initiatives and ensuring efficient resource utilisation across teams
Resource managers looking to implement advanced techniques for managing shared resources and avoiding over-allocation
Business analysts who need to combine projects, generate custom reports, and improve data visibility for stakeholders
Training coordinators aiming to create reusable project templates and standardise planning processes across departments
IT professionals tasked with integrating external data into project management systems and exporting reports for analysis
No prior experience needed
While a basic familiarity with Microsoft Project is beneficial, this course is structured to accommodate learners at varying experience levels. The content is delivered in a clear, practical manner to ensure accessibility for all participants, regardless of their current proficiency.
What you will take away
Delegates will leave with the confidence and skills to manage complex project scenarios, optimise resource allocation, and produce tailored reports that support informed decision-making. They will also gain the ability to streamline project initiation through templates and integrate external data seamlessly into their workflows.
For Groups & Teams
We can deliver this training session in several ways to suit your organisation’s needs:
Open Public Course
Join delegates from other organisations on a scheduled date
Closed Group
Exclusively for your team, using your real scenarios
In Person
Face-to-face at your premises or a venue of your choice
Virtual
Live, interactive online delivery via Teams or Zoom
One-to-One Coaching
Personalised sessions tailored entirely to you
Have two or more people to train?
You may want to consider a closed group course. Benefits include:
Cost effective for teams
Choose a date to suit you
Customise content and timings
No minimum delegate numbers
Uses your real-world scenarios
Builds shared language in your team
Contact us on [email protected] to discuss specific dates and delivery requirements.
How Our Tutor-Led Courses Are Delivered
Before the day
Delegates are given pre-work to complete before attending. This ensures everyone arrives with relevant context and real scenarios from their own experience, so learning is immediately relevant and actionable from the first minute.
On the day
Our sessions are participative and highly interactive. We don’t do “death by PowerPoint” — instead, the day includes a variety of engaging activities throughout:
Real-world casework using your scenarios
Practical hands-on exercises
Real Play (not role play) simulations
Peer learning and group discussion
Case studies and scenario work
Facilitated discussion and structured reflection
What you leave with
Participants leave with:
Practical tools — frameworks and models you can use straight away
Clear action plans — specific next steps tailored to your role
Greater confidence — built through intensive, realistic practice
Skills you can apply immediately — not theory, but techniques tested during the day
After the day
Post-session measurements and a 30-day challenge ensure that learning is embedded and behaviour change is sustained.
Key Features
Course Duration is 1 Day
Engaging tutor led event
Comprehensive course materials
Certificates of attendance
Access to Customer Portal (course bookers)
Course Guarantee
Priced per delegate per day for open public course
From: £295.00 Plus VAT
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