GAF training

«Do not forget the goal, do not lose the way, do not lose courage.»
Hermann Gmeiner, 1919 – 1986, founder of SOS Children’s Villages

Whether your project was initiated to realize a technical development, a new organization, the building of a house or tour of a play – all these projects are demanding tasks that often operate on strict time schedules. So that they succeed, a well structured project management is indispensable.

Objectives + Benefits

• You simulate a project from project charter to final acceptance and see the implications of your decisions.
• You know how to use a Gantt chart or network plan.
• You will learn that a project is not only about time and money, but also about quality and team motivation.
• You will develop your personal action plan that will assist you in realizing your goals in your daily routine.

Training Program with Project Simulation – 2 days

• Project definition, establish project planning
• Develop Work Breakdown-Structure
• Allow for risk management
• Determine project structure, team and organization
• Discuss conflicts in projects
• Initiate project controlling

Training Methodology

• Tried-and-tested theory
• Case studies
• Project simulation
• Discussion platform

Target Group
Project managers and project members, who want to learn and implement up-to-date and future-oriented methods.

Participants say

«The trainer has convinced me with his excellent expertise and leadership experience, as well as with his know-how. The seminar was always interesting and fascinating. I will surely recommend this course.»

Pius Stucki, Project Manager HRM-Systems, ZKB Zürcher Kantonalbank, Zurich

Dates	Location	Language	Remarks	Register
22.11.2010-23.11.2010	Zurich	deutsch		Register
22.11.2010-23.11.2010	Zurich	english		Register

«Make things as easy as possible. But not any easier.»
Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955, Nobel Prize in Physics, theory of relativity, mass-energy equivalence, law of photoelectric effect.

You are a professional project manager and know that companies with a well implemented project management structure have a major head start. They complete projects in less time, with less personal and financial effort. And they have less project failures. In short, they are effective, efficient and successful.

Objectives + Benefits

• You learn the tried-and-tested methods and techniques of multi-project management.
• You are able to set priorities between daily business and project work and assert yourself accordingly.
• You know how to work with virtual teams (in different geographical locations).
• Your personal action plan will help you realize your goals in your daily routine.

Training-Program with project simulation – 2 days

• Identify a standard project approach in the corporation in order to compare, control and consolidate projects
• Lead international projects, also with virtual teams
• Capacity planning in the multi-project context
• Portfolio analysis
• Techniques and methods for corporate-wide risk optimization
• Organization of controlling, early warning methods, trend analyses
• Particularities of international, multi-cultural project teams

Training-Methodology

• Tried-and-tested theory
• Case studies
• Project simulation from project charter to final acceptance
• Discussion platform

Target Group
Project managers and program managers, who have been leading projects for at least 3 years

Participants say

«The discussion platform and the concrete addressing of issues from my personal project routine were very useful to me. Simulation is excellent. Competent trainer.»

Fritz Glaser, Projektmanager, Novartis Ophthalmics AG, Hettlingen

Dates	Location	Language	Remarks	Register
09.11.2010-10.11.2010	Zurich	deutsch		Register

«Learn from others. Because you don¹t have enough time and money to make all the mistakes yourself.»

You have already worked managing projects for many years and know that reality often is different from the blueprint. "Dumb" mistakes have already endangered or even wrecked many projects.
In two days you will follow through a project from A to Z and receive valuable feedback and input from both project and management professionals. The decisions taken and their consequences will be evaluated and the lessons learned will be integrated into your own everyday project experience.
GAF, member of the Swiss Project Management Association SPM, has extensively trained project managers and whole project teams for over 15 years.

Objectives + Benefits

• Optimal fine-tuning of contract implementation
• Leading teams competently and efficiently
• Identifying conflicts early on and handling them
• Harnessing tension positively between people with different goals and demands
• Presenting projects skillfully
• Completing projects successfully
• You lead a project yourself from A to Z
• Valuable tips from 2 project and management professionals
• Applying this to your own everyday project experience

Target Group
Experienced project and sub-project managers. Division and branch managers who must co-ordinate or lead many projects at the same time.

Participants say

«Great simulation and team work exercises to train and understand new methods. Was excellent that pitfalls have been highlighted. Interesting discussion and experience exchange. I definitively have learnt a lot, but had also fun.»

Martin Nicklas, Engineering TGTP, ALSTOM (Switzerland), Baden

«Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.»
Henry Ford, 1863 – 1947 Founder of the Ford Motor Company

Meetings that are properly prepared and led are excellent, efficient, and opinion-shaping communication and decision-making forums, provided that you and your participants follow the essential rules and apply and implement meeting strategies and techniques in an accomplished manner.

Objectives + Benefits

• You learn to conduct meetings efficiently and oriented towards goals and participants
• You practice the meeting cycle as well as the preparation and follow-up of a meeting
• You will receive checklists and tried-and-tested examples about meetings

Training Program – 2 days

• Meeting cycle according to the GAF Meeting Method
• Planning, logistics, and realization of successful meetings
• Rules, strategies, and techniques of successful meetings
• Information and communication rules
• Interactive learning with scenes from real meetings
• Trainer feedback and video recordings
• Checklists and tips from professionals
• Your goals, your means, and their concrete implementation in practice

Training Methodology

• You will practice actual meetings situations with feedback, tips and video recordings 
• Your meetings and discussions will be videotaped, and individually viewed and discussed.
• Together with your trainer you will develop a learning and implementation program.

Target Group
Team, Department, and Project Managers, who want to conduct meetings in a goal and participant oriented way.

Participants say

«The seminar was very well adapted to my needs, and is therefore very helpful for the daily work. Super learning atmosphere. It was the most efficient seminar that I ever participated in! »

Urban Eschbach, Group leader, TGTD, ALSTOM Switzerland, Baden

Dates	Location	Language	Remarks	Register
07.09.2010-08.09.2010	Olten	deutsch		Register
18.11.2010-19.11.2010	Zurich	english		Register
18.11.2010-19.11.2010	Zurich	deutsch		Register

with exam simulation X-AM - free Demo version

«We are proud to have an impressive record, with a pass rate in excess of 94 %! Looking forward to getting you ready for this international certificate.»
Erik Leibundgut, Managing Director GAF

You are already one of the top practitioners in your field. Now make it official by earning the globally recognized PMP® certification credential.

Objectives + Benefits

• Be prepared to take and pass the PMP® Certification Exam
• Learn about the five process groups: Initiate, Plan, Execute, Control and Close
• Get to know the nine Knowledge Areas: Communication, Time, Cost, Scope, Integration, Human Resources, Risk, Quality and Procurement
• All based upon the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK® Guide 4th edition

Training Program – 2+2 days

• 2+2 day classroom training
• Web-based exam simulation X-AM with more than 1000 questions,   Demo version X-AM PMBoK® Guide 4th edition
• 80 – 100 hours self-study with PMP® Exam Prep binder and Rita Mulcahy’s study book and PMBOK® Guide Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Hotline to trainer and GAF office to provide on-going support
• Provides the required 35 educational contact hours
  
  Exam: Computer based multiple-choice exam, 200 questions in 4 hours.

PMP® Eligibility requirements

• 35 hours of specific project management education (you will get a certificate for these 35 hours, as you do the 2+2 day training with us)
• Bachelor’s degree and min 36 months professional project management experience within last 8 years. During which 4’500 hours leading project.
• Without Bachelor’s degree: 60 months professional project management experience within last 8 years. During which 7’500 hours leading project tasks.

PMP is a registered certification mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

 

Participants say

«GAF made an excellent job in trimming us to pass the test. We all made it!» - 1 month later:  «Our project meetings are more efficient and goal orientated. We all speak the same «language» and understand where we want to go together. I highly recommend doing it.»

Jennifer Smith, international Project Manager PMP®

Dates	Location	Language	Remarks	Register
09.09.2010-10.09.2010	Zurich	english	and 2nd session 14-15 October 2010	Register
30.09.2010-01.10.2010	Basel	english	and 2nd session 28-29 October 2010	Register
04.10.2010-05.10.2010	Geneva	english	and 2nd session 4-5 November 2010	Register
01.11.2010-02.11.2010	Zurich	english	and 2nd session 2-3 December 2010	Register
29.11.2010-30.11.2010	Geneva	english	and 2nd session 20-21 December 2010	Register

with exam simulation X-AM - free Demo version

«We are proud to have an impressive record, with a pass rate in excess of 94 %! Looking forward to getting you ready for this international certificate.»
Erik Leibundgut, Managing Director GAF

This 4-day interactive course is intended for team members, new Project Managers and graduate and undergraduate students who wish to gain the PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®) Certification.

Objectives + Benefits

• Be prepared to take and pass the CAPM® Certification Exam
• Learn about the five process groups: Initiate, Plan, Execute, Control and Close
• Get to know the nine Knowledge Areas: Communication, Time, Cost, Scope, Integration, Human Resources, Risk, Quality and Procurement
• All based upon the Project Management Body of Knowledge, PMBOK® Guide 4th edition

Training Program – 2+2 days

• 2+2 day classroom training
• Web-based exam simulation X-AM with more than 1000 questions
• 80 – 100 hours self-study with CAPM Exam Prep binder and Rita Mulcahy’s study book and PMBOK ® Guide Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Hotline to trainer and GAF office to provide on-going support
• Provides the required 23 educational contact hours

Exam: Computer based multiple-choice exam, 150 questions in 3 hours.

CAPM® Eligibility requirements

• a) Educational background: secondary education and 1’500 hours of professional project experience on a project team
• or
• b) Educational background: secondary education and 23 contact hours of formal project management education (covered by the proCAP-M course)

You can now also participate in our proPM-P courses to prepare yourself for the CAPM certification. This gives you a wider choice in dates.

CAPM is a registered certification mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Dates	Location	Language	Remarks	Register
01.11.2010-02.11.2010	Basel	English	and 02 - 03 December 2010	Register

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it, you will land among the stars."
Les Brown, *1945, amerikanischer Referent und Autor

Mit Prüfungssimulation X-AM - kostenlose Demo version

Unternehmen, die auf Professionalität und Produktivität setzen, wissen wie wichtig gezielte Projektleitung ist. So ist Erfolg nicht Zufall, sondern planbar.
Ambitiöse Mitarbeiter wissen, dass neben einer hierarchischen Führungs-Karriere, oder einer Karriere als Spezialist, die Projektleiter-Karriere immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnt.
Die internationale Zertifizierung lohnt sich somit für Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer.

Ziele + Nutzen

• Sie arbeiten mit weltweit anerkannten Terminologien und Prozessen
• Standardisierte Abläufe und somit termin-, ziel-, und kostenorientierte Projektausführung
• Sie erlangen neue Erkenntnisse, die Sie in ihrer Projektarbeit umsetzen und optimieren können

Training-Programm

• Je nach Level 8-14 Intensiv-Schulungs-Tage mit Trainer verteilt auf 5 bis 10 Monate
• Prüfungssimulation X-AM IPMA
• IPMA Competence Baseline – ICB

Examen: Selbsteinschätzung, Interviews, Projektreport, schriftliches Examen


Zielgruppe und Voraussetzungen

Level A – Certified Project Director: mind. 5 Jahre Projekterfahrung und davon 3 Jahre als Projektmanager und Leiter Portfolio einer Gesamtunternehmung.
Level B – Certified Project Manager: mind. 5 Jahre Projekterfahrung und davon 3 Jahre als Projektleiter in komplexen Projekten
Level C – Certified Project Leader: mind. 3 Jahre Projekterfahrung und davon 3 Jahre als Projektleiter.
Level D – Certified Project Management Specialist: mind. 1 Jahr Erfahrung in Projektmitarbeit.

Teilnehmer Stimme

«Endlich gibt es eine international anerkannte Zertifizierung für Projektleiter. Während dieser Ausbildung habe ich Zusammenhänge neu verstanden und kann das Gelernte gleich in meinen Projektalltag umsetzen.»