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Project Management Certificate

Our accelerated Project Management Certificate program covers all topics in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and prepares you with the skills necessary to work as a successful project manager.

This program is taught by Tony Mayfield, a PMP certified instructor with more than 30 years of project management training experience.

Upon successful completion of the program, you’ll receive your project management certificate from Tennessee’s premier university, which enhances your résumé.

This program also fulfills the 35 hours of training required to sit for the PMP certification exam. But even if you choose not to pursue your PMP certification, anyone managing projects will benefit from this thorough training.

The Project Management Certificate program includes the Project Management Professional Course and the Project Management Exam – Intense Review course. You may take these courses individually or enroll in both at the same time to receive a discounted fee of $1,799. You must call our office at 865-974-0150 to enroll at the discounted rate.

Note: If you’re planning to take the PMP exam, it’s required that you buy the current paperback edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide). The book is approximately $70 and can be purchased online at PMI.org, Amazon.com, or BarnesNoble.com.

 

Project Management Professional Course

The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification establishes a common language among project managers and helps them work within a common framework.

Once you have the PMP, you need to consider the best way to apply the processes, tools, and techniques you’ve developed to your projects. By sharing how you apply the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) framework and demonstrating your newly-acquired skills through action, you’ll build your own personal brand within your organization as someone who can deliver. Building on each success enables you to participate and lead on larger projects across your organization and allows you to branch out into other programs in different business units. By demonstrating greater competency through managing more complex projects, you’ll also be able to compete for more senior positions.

Our 24-hour Project Management Professional Course is a practical review of project management techniques, tools, and practices. You’ll learn the hows, whys, and whens of projects and the best way to approach different scenarios.

As part of the course, you’ll be asked to work on take-home exercises that will reinforce key points from class discussions.

Some of the main areas we’ll cover include:

Course Framework & Project Leader Assessment
You’ll receive an introduction to the course syllabus, requirements, and deliverables and become acquainted with the terminology, 10 knowledge areas, relationships to other disciplines, and project management context and processes.

Skills and Abilities for Effective Leadership of Teams
We’ll enhance your project team leadership skills, define the work environment of project teams, develop a team charter, clearly define the roles and responsibilities of all team members, set team guidelines, and learn methods to promote teamwork and manage team dynamics.

Project Management: Initiating the Project and Planning Scope and Schedule
You’ll discover important techniques for deciding whether or not it is feasible to undertake a project, for planning project outcomes and schedules, for developing a project charter and a scope statement, and for organizing a plan and budget.

Project Management: Planning Resources, Communication, Quality and Risk Management
You’ll learn how to estimate the needs for personnel and other project resources—emphasizing the type, amount, and timing of resource needs—and how to plan for additional project support activities.

Project Leader Communications Expertise and Evaluating Team Performance
The purpose of this section is to strengthen your communication, change-management, conflict resolution, and team evaluation skills.

Implementing and Managing Projects
You’ll develop techniques and processes for starting and performing the actual project work and for working successfully in a matrix management environment.

Controlling Performance and Assessing Outcomes
You’ll learn how to monitor and control project activities in progress, how to bring a project to closure, and how to design and conduct a post-project review.

Problem Solving, Decision Making and Ethics
We’ll focus on developing ethical problem solving and decision making skills, ensuring you always keep ethics and best practices at the forefront of all your decisions.

Project Management Exam – Intense Review

A MUST-HAVE FOR THE PMP CANDIDATE!
Take our 12-hour intense review and prepare yourself for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. We’ll get you ready for the exam process both mentally and technically while raising your confidence and mental acuity, ensuring you’ll be at your best when you take the PMP exam.

Area 1: Complete overview of the PMBOK, its contents and structure.
Area 2: Acute coverage of knowledge areas and problems in preparation for the exam.
Area 3: Use of other resources and study aids to help prepare you for the exam.

 

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Meet Our Instructor

Instructor Tony Mayfield is a senior consultant at On-Target Innovations, LLC, a Tennessee-based technology and engineering consulting firm. He has over 30 years of experience in developing high-end projects, cost controls, information systems, process improvement, process re-engineering, and training with both commercial and government organizations.

As a program manager, Tony has worked on numerous projects as project manager, site lead, and subject matter expert (SME), doing whatever is necessary to propel a project forward. He uses proven project management techniques and strategies to provide solid, consistent insight and oversight for both single unit and enterprise-wide projects while also leading large, complex projects. These endeavors have allowed him to work with various domestic and multi-national companies.

An accomplished professional speaker, trainer, and consultant in project management, computer systems architecture, process improvement, and installations, Tony has provided oversight, coordination, and leadership in the development of contracts, determining the scope of work, resolving project-related issues, and keeping concerned stakeholders up-to-date—all while maintaining a proper balance by using best management practices.

He has led teams comprised of large numbers of associates with varying degrees of experience and job understanding, employing leadership and teaming skills to propel each group to achieve success; and he is a seasoned consultant skilled in mentoring management and staff on the correct use and implementation of solid management principles.

Tony has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in information systems.


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Testimonial

“These courses provide an excellent springboard for preparing to take the PMP exam. Course materials thoroughly cover the PMBOK framework, emphasizing topics that need to be fully understood as well as providing related information that strengthens the student’s ability to apply the processes to their project management ‘tool boxes.’ Tony’s teaching style is great—classes are very participative—never a dull moment with all the examples of real world ‘lessons learned’ that Tony and the students share. An additional benefit for students is the ability to network—I joined a group of three other students to study for the exam; we used the class material along with other study aids suggested by Tony to master the material and ultimately pass the exam. I highly recommend both courses to improve your skills as a project manager as well as prepare for the PMP exam.”

– Cindy Kortebein, former Project Management Certificate student



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