About tailored training

Open or tailored training at your company?

Training out of context soon loses its effect. Conversely, tailored training programs and activities for continuous learning, where the participants meet regularly and also receive individual personal support, has long-term effects. Such programs may consist of courses or internal network meetings on a variety of themes. Many of our customers use us to support them in these learning processes, which actively contribute to keeping new knowledge and skills alive while gradually refining the project skills in the whole company.

In our tailored programs, the contents are formulated during the preparation phase and in collaboration with our customers. All of our courses are modular, which makes them easy to tailor in little time at all.

Some advantages of tailored programs

Our customers often talk about these advantages of tailored programs:
• They lay the foundation for a common language and project method, making communication about projects easier.
• By composing the teams from different parts of the company, the programs allow fruitful discussions about how joint projects will be run.
• Including the project sponsor, manager, team members and line managers in the training ensures good interaction and clear roles in the project organization.
• Those who participate in the course clearly see how the project’s activities relate to the overall business and goals/strategies, and how the contents of the course clearly relate to the participants’ own work.
• The interaction between mature project managers and those who are less experienced is valuable. Often, tailored training forms the basis of future networks and mentorships that contribute to collective learning in the whole organization.

Many of our customers also appreciate the opportunity to send new employees to our open training courses after attending an internal program. This provides continuity in their work of creating an internal “project language.” Equally appreciated is the ability to meet internally for a follow-up and additional training after individual participation in open training courses.

Internal training allows training of larger groups of employees at a reduced cost. All internal programs are offered at a fixed rate per day. A general rule of thumb is that you save by doing internal training when the number of participants is more than eight. This reasoning is solely financial and does not consider other advantages and disadvantages of internal versus open training.

To develop the collective project skills of an organization, the project sponsor, team members, line managers and others should all be involved in internal development programs. It can also be good to involve participants from different parts of the organization in project training. This lays a solid foundation for better interaction and increased understanding of different roles’ responsibility for the results.

Despite several “packaged” modules, the program must always be designed based on the specific needs of each individual customer.