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It is very relevant to say that for an organization, there is no important task than to develop their important asset of all – it’s workforce. It’s important to train people to help each employee to understand and reach his potential; educate the workforce and connect them emotionally to achieve organizational objectives. This way, project management training is a training framework that helps organizations to achieve these important objectives.

Project management is broadly classified into project planning and managing the project as per the plan. Good project management training should include sessions on resource planning, risk assessment methodologies, estimation techniques, resource management, schedule preparation and tracking. The training should provide a balance between planning and project management including its management aspects.

There are lot of choices available for an organization on providing project management training to it’s workforce. One way is to develop internal trainers and training framework within the company. This kind of in house training has the advantage of saving costs, giving flexibility on the training content. But it may take long time for the training framework to reach a mature state.

One more alternative method is to use the services offered by professional training institutions, whose main objective is to provide professional training to business organizations. An organization which doesn’t have the needed resources to train the workforce in house, can take advantage of the services offered by these training institutions. This could save lot of time and energy. But these services could be quite costly.

One of the useful ways is to have a good collection of management books in a company library.One such book which one can get hold of in management lierature is Training for profit: a guide to the integration of training in an organizations success.It explains the opportunities and the advantages that a person gets from workforce training and corelates them to the financial performance of the organization’s.It also acts as a helpful guide to the internal trainers by helping them to know the innovative methods by which a workforce can be trained.

Skills such as communication skills, cross cultural skills, inter-personal skills, negotiation skills and customer interaction play a crucial role in effective team building and successful project execution. Hence effective project management training should not ignore them but include them as integral part of it’s curriculum. Training the workforce is indeed a very demanding activity and one cannot afford to overlook its contribution to profitability of the organization.

Training employees in project management helps organizations to achieve their predetermined objectives in executing projects. Areas of project management training include project planning, resource planning, risk assessment and estimation techniques and preparation and monitoring of schedules The training can be internal in order to save on costs and have flexibility in training content; or it can be given by external institutions, if the organization does not have in-house resources for training. Providing access to management books such as Training for Profit: A Guide to the Integration of Training in an Organizations Success is also a good alternative.

- George Purdy