Using your own project or that of someone else, you will learn how to be off to a flying start when it comes to the result-oriented collaboration on a temporary assignment. Achieving a good and impactful project result by creating structure, while at the same time remaining agile. You will learn how to stay in charge and develop more understanding by dividing the project into bite-sized chunks and making realistic agreements with the commissioning party and the project team members. In addition, you will learn how to give stakeholders a voice and/or role, and how you can make explicit and structure expectations around roles, tasks, and responsibilities.

Thanks to these basic skills in the field of project-based working, you will be more in charge of your project. The fourth day of this course is specifically aimed at the managing role of project leaders, combined with project communication and dealing with team dynamics.

During this practical basic training course, you will learn to recognize and apply the different aspects of the Project-Based Creating (PMC, Projectmatig Creëren) approach. In addition to clear language-use and terminology, this approach offers practical tips, tools, and techniques for both smaller and larger projects.

During the training course, we will discuss the below topics:
·        the essentials of project-based creating
·        phased project approach
·        project definition
·        collective intake
·        activity plan
·        project organization
·        project management
·        project start-ups and other project work meetings
·        risk analysis
·        forcefield analysis

Day 4: Specifically aimed at project leaders (optional for other participants)
·        Preferred styles and team dynamics
·        Project communication
·        Action plan to further your own project

After the training course, you will
✓ know how to, collectively, sharply define a project assignment to ensure a good start, design, execution, and, adjustment process
✓ Have insight in the forcefield surrounding the project
✓ know the different roles, tasks, and responsibilities that are involved in the project
✓ know how and when to pragmatically launch a project start-up
✓ be aware of your own project leadership style
✓ be able to give your project role a clearer shape and definition
✓ be able to launch and successfully complete projects independently
✓ have at your disposal a language and terminology framework, practical techniques, tools, insights, and inspiration to further your project.

Participants value the following aspects of this training course:
✓ clear explanation about the nine steps that go with the project definition
✓ challenging exercises in groups or pairs
✓ basic structure of a project with a commissioning party, project members, and a project result
✓ combination of theory and personal practice
✓ insight in how to work together as a project team, whether or not in a hybrid form

Participants of the 2021 training course rated it with an average of 9:
‘It was a very inspiring course that made me look at research projects in a different way. As a project leader, I now feel that me and my team are better equipped for the job.’