TEST - CCEO Educations Partners

Systems Thinking And Complex Project Management

Presenters: Dr Geoff Abbott & Erin Evans

Dates: Brisbane:  29-31 October 2014

Time: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Cost: $3,025 (inc GST) per person (discount for bookings of 4 or more)

Venue: Brisbane: QUT Executive Education Centre, Level 4, B Block, Gardens Point, Brisbane, Australia

This course is an introduction to those wishing to enhance their understanding of complex project management. It provides a conceptual bridge, complementing and extending traditional analytical tools of senior organisational members, project portfolio directors and project managers into the field of complex project management. It takes participants through the strategic imperatives within complex systems through to organisational and holistic systems approaches, so they can design and manage viable project systems, and solve emerging problems.

The course starts with the real-world issues that have led to adopting a systems thinking approach to complex projects. The context also considers organisational strategy, stakeholder needs, and project delivery architecture.

During the 3-day program we work with a number of cases to bring together the systems methodologies that may be applied to help with the design of the content with an example project delivery methodology. Participants have significant opportunities to consider the transfer of the learning to their own projects.

What will participants get out of this course?

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Make sense of complex problems using soft systems methodology
• Challenge project/problem boundaries and 'taken for granted assumptions using critical systems heuristics
• Use the 'viable system model'
• Understand organisational strategy and strategic alignment
• Implement a complex program.

Participants have significant opportunities to consider the transfer of their new knowledge to their own projects. Feedback for this course shows that the transfer of learning to the workplace is immediate and powerful.

Mind Gym Workshop - Pathways To Success

Presenters: Dr Margot Duncan & Dr Scott Bolland

Dates: 30 September 2014 - Pathways To Success

Time: 8:30am - 12:30pm AEST

Cost: $275 (inc GST) per person per workshop (includes lunch)

Venue: QUT Graduate School of Business, Level 4, B Block, Gardens Point, Brisbane, Australia

Is quiet contemplation the new way to unlock productivity? More and more research suggests this might be the key to success. Discover your inner executive. Find out how the mind really works and how to use it.

The aim of the QUT MindGym is to provide a training ground for establishing new behaviours and thought patterns, resulting in high impact organisational and personal change.

What will participants learn:

• Increase focus and deal with stress
• Boost creativity and productivity
• Increase workplace motivation and engagement
• Strengthen relationships and effectively navigate conflict
• Implement a complex program

Leadership topics explored:

• Leading in the present
• Powerful relationships
• Leading lives of purpose
• Pathways to success

The program has been designed to enable personalised learning to target the integration of key concepts within your organisational context and leadership challenges. After each Mind Gym workshop, you will be guided in completing a program of activities and challenges that integrate key principles and practices into the workplace.

Executive Master Of Business Administration

Dates: October 2014 Intake

Venue: Canberra | QUT Graduate School

Ranked in the top four nationally by the Australian Financial Review BOSS MBA Ranking in 2013, the Queensland University of Technology Australia’s unique EMBA program is offered in both Brisbane and Canberra.

As business challenges no longer reside within the neat, predictable framework of a single discipline, this program enables students to take a truly multi-disciplinary view of each new business challenge. Students will have the opportunity of participating in an international study tour to China, where they will learn to meet the demands of a rapidly globalising society.

A leadership coach will be available to guide students in establishing clear goals for their career path. Students will be able to undertake a leadership practicum by shadowing a senior executive from industry, commerce or government. There is also the possibility of studying during weekend classes in a 23 month intensive part-time mode.