Managing international projects professionally

Combine your project management expertise with intercultural skills

This training is held in German.
Get fit for international projects. Combine project management methodology with intercultural knowledge. International projects require an expanded way of thinking in terms of execution, leadership and communication. Take a close look at the special features of other cultures and categorize your projects. Evaluate intercultural risks and opportunities and learn to adopt a culturally sensitive approach to project planning, project management and stakeholder concepts.

Contents

Successful cooperation in an international environment

  • Basics of different cultures.
  • Own and others' view of other cultures.
  • Dealing with cultural stereotypes and directness.
  • International relationship management.

Designing international projects

  • Explanation of terms, definitions.
  • International project management standards (IPMA®, PRINCE2®, Project Management Institute (PMI).
  • Culturally specific understanding of planning and time, polychronic and monochronic approaches.
  • Stakeholders in an international context.
  • Order clarification.
  • International risks and risk management.

Planning international projects

  • Culture-specific target, project structure, process and quality planning.
  • Scope statement, result and process quality.
  • International project organization.
  • Material resources and people as agents.
  • Resource and cost planning.
  • Plan optimization.

Managing international projects

  • Project control cycle and control parameters.
  • Integrated management of objectives, quality, time, costs and capacities in an international context.
  • Special features of communication and information in international projects.
  • Dealing with direct protocol and discussion management.
  • English PM document templates.

Managing international projects

  • Understanding leadership and leadership techniques.
  • International leadership styles.
  • International teamwork, virtuality.
  • International negotiation techniques.

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Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You will receive the necessary strategic tools for managing international projects and will be prepared to take on project tasks in an international environment.
  • You increase your ability to successfully manage intercultural risks. Your ability to integrate people with different cultural orientations will increase.
  • You can put together effective international project teams, communicate effectively, cooperate and create real synergy effects.
  • You will learn the essential methods of international project management and know how to use them to achieve the desired project success within the time, quality and cost framework.
  • The focus is on your international project practice: your selected issues will be worked on together and examined from an intercultural and PM perspective.

After attending this seminar, you will receive a confirmation of 12.50 PDUs.

Methods

Group exercises, project structuring with Metaplan, practical case studies based on participants' projects, intercultural case studies and cultural puzzles, demo films, moderated discussions, theoretical impulses, learning partnerships, reflection, opportunity to explore specific issues in greater depth.

Recommended for

project managers, sub-project managers, project employees, specialists and managers with current or future projects in the international field.

Basic knowledge of project management (as taught in our PM Basics seminars, for example) is a prerequisite.

 

 

PMI is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

PRINCE2® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

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Attendees comments

"Mr. Nägele has outstanding expertise and knows how to convey this to the participants."

Stephan Schuster
GETRAG International GmbH, Untergruppenbach

"Many case studies from the speakers' personal experience, very good presentation style."

Kai Michelsen
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt a. M.

"Good mix of theory, practical case studies and playful elements such as role plays."

Dirk Hallerberg
Egrima Business Center GmbH & Co. KG, Ratingen

"Participant-oriented approach, many practical examples."

Yulia Pavelko
Nordic Yards Wismar GmbH, Wismar

"Practical relevance, lots of real examples and experience from the speakers."

Christian Thanninger
Brunel GmbH, Bremen

"Practical and goal-oriented handling of relevant content with many case studies and good involvement of the participants."

Stefan Meier
International Account Manager, REPUCOM, Cologne

"I particularly liked the overall mix and the many personal experiences of the speaker."

Carolin Dunker
Oterra

Seminar evaluation for "Managing international projects professionally"

4.4 from 5
with 329 reviews
training content:
4.1
Content comprehensibility:
4.5
Practical relevance:
4.3
Trainer expertise:
4.7
Participant orientation:
4.5
Method variety:
4.3
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Overview of PDU points
PDUs In-person (12.50)
PDU Ways of Working:
5.00
PDU Power Skills:
7.00
PDU Business Acumen:
0.50

Total PDUs:
12.50
PDUs Online (12.50)
PDU Ways of Working:
5.00
PDU Power Skills:
7.00
PDU Business Acumen:
0.50

Total PDUs:
12.50
Already PMI®-certified? Then collect PDUs!

If you are already PMI®-certified, you must continuously collect so-called PDUs (Professional Development Units) in order to maintain your certification. As a Project Management Professional PMP®, for example, you need 60 PDUs within three years, 35 of which must be in the "Education" category. All further training measures must be selected in such a way that, in total, each of the 3 competence fields of the "Talent Triangle®"

  • Ways of Working
  • Power Skills
  • Business Acumen

PMI Talent Triangle®

Each of them is covered with a minimum of 8 PDUs. The remaining training PDUs can be selected between the competencies. Haufe Akademie is an Authorized Training Partner of PMI ® and authorized to grant PDUs for participation in qualification measures. To this end, we have created an overview of the number of PDUs per offer for you:

PMI, PMP, the PMI Registered Education Provider logo, the Talent Triangle, and the Talent Triangle logo are registered trademarks of Project Management Institute, Inc.

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Certified - or qualified? Are you also certified? Or are you perhaps considering certification? Then you're in good company. More and more companies are giving their project managers a professional stamp of approval. Where it says "project manager" on the label, it should also say "project manager". In short: certifications and terms such as IPMA, GPM, PMP®, IAPM and PMI® [...]

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Overview of PDU points
PDUs presence (12.50)
PDU Ways of Working:
5.00
PDU Power Skills:
7.00
PDU Business Acumen:
0.50

Total PDUs:
12.50
PDUs online (12.50)
PDU Ways of Working:
5.00
PDU Power Skills:
7.00
PDU Business Acumen:
0.50

Total PDUs:
12.50
Already PMI®-certified? Then collect PDUs!

If you are already PMI®-certified, you must continuously collect so-called PDUs (Professional Development Units) in order to maintain your certification. As a Project Management Professional PMP®, for example, you need 60 PDUs within three years, 35 of which must be in the "Education" category. All further training measures must be selected in such a way that, in total, each of the 3 competence fields of the "Talent Triangle®"

  • Ways of Working
  • Power Skills
  • Business Acumen

PMI Talent Triangle®

Each of them is covered with a minimum of 8 PDUs. The remaining training PDUs can be selected between the competencies. Haufe Akademie is an Authorized Training Partner of PMI ® and authorized to grant PDUs for participation in qualification measures. To this end, we have created an overview of the number of PDUs per offer for you:

PMI, PMP, the PMI Registered Education Provider logo, the Talent Triangle, and the Talent Triangle logo are registered trademarks of Project Management Institute, Inc.

Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

Project management certifications: Sense or nonsense?

Certified - or qualified? Are you also certified? Or are you perhaps considering certification? Then you're in good company. More and more companies are giving their project managers a professional stamp of approval. Where it says "project manager" on the label, it should also say "project manager". In short: certifications and terms such as IPMA, GPM, PMP®, IAPM and PMI® [...]

Learn more here

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