Project Coaching

Today’s projects are often business critical, on tight timelines and budgets and are stressful. The project management role requires a multitude of skills, from excellent communication, man-management, and project process skills, to political savvy and high emotional intelligence. Developing these areas by purely going on training courses can be difficult – classroom theories are hard to apply in practise and are quickly forgotten. One-to-one regular coaching is a highly effective management development approach to embed new project skills and apply them consistently over a period of time.

In a series of meetings the coach helps the project manager to deal with work challenges, improve their results, attain their development goals and implement recent training ideas. Orgtopia is one of the few companies to offer focused project management coaching.

A growing range of organisations, including the BBC, Lloyds TSB and Shell, rate coaching as highly effective at improving performance. A recent CIPD survey*, gives the reasons why:

On-going support with an accredited and experienced project management expert.Help to implement training theory such as Prince2, APMG and PMI’s PMBOK to complex work environments. Holistic approach that simultaneously develops a broad range of interrelated skills a project manager needs.Tailored development that takes account of an individual’s personality, work challenges, environments and learning styles.An impartial and confidential sounding board that allows discussion of controversial topics.

Orgtopia has been involved in management coaching for over five years. Working with organisations like the BBC, Islington Council and Citigroup we have helped many managers and directors build on their considerable talents to substantially improve performance. We are all accredited coaches, Prince2 and PMI trainers and members of the Association of Coaching.