Trainers as project managers: a new world?
By Jim Aspden (May 2004 Issue)
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Can trainers learn anything from the complex world that project managers inhabit? Undoubtedly, yes. Indeed, many trainers will already have grasped the principles and tools of the project management trade, either through hard won experience or through structured learning programmes. If that is the case, why has this article been written?
I work as a trainer, coach, facilitator, consultant – please add your own favourite descriptor here for someone who helps other people to learn things. It struck me a while ago, when asked to manage a series of learning programmes for a customer, that there had to be a better way of managing the design and delivery of a diverse range of learning programmes than the intuitive, somewhat fraught approach I used at that time. After looking into the fundamentals of project management I began to realise how useful some of the principles and practices of project management could be to trainers.
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