Knowledge Century offers the broadest range of Project Management training in Hong Kong. We provide customized training programs to our corporate clients, and standard programs through our partners to the public.
Why Our Training Is Different?
Aligning with PMI®
We are a Global Education Provider (Global REP) of Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Our training courses are registered with PMI® and recognized both for the necessary credit hours for applying to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, and for PMPs to obtain Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their professional qualification.
The contents of our courses are based on the theoretical framework of A Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) laden with real-life case studies and management group discussion, aiming to provide participants with practical project management skills for their jobs.
Total Customer Satisfaction
The portfolio of Project Management courses have been delivered to more than 50 corporations in Hong Kong and China with excellent feedback. A sample of our corporate clients include Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Manulife, MTRC, China Mobile, Hospital Authority, Bank of China, OGCIO of the Hong Kong SAR Government, HSBC, Hang Seng Bank, Knorr-Bremse, Hutchison Whampoa, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, and many other blue-chip companies.
Knowledge Century maintains close collaboration with our clients and partners to ensure that our clients are completely satisfied with the training services.
Experienced Trainers
All our trainers are experienced project management practitioners with more than 20 years of experience and vertical industry knowledge in various sectors including IT, telecom, banking and finance, insurance, public administration and logistics.
Continuous Improvement
We are committed to the continuous improvement of our training programs. We update and incorporate changes to our course materials on regular basis to reflect participant input, instructor comments, current events, technology improvement, and best business practices. We monitor our courses to ensure consistency with the PMBOK from time to time.
Project Management Fundamental Series
Project Management for PMP Certification
This is a five-day course which gives participants a good understanding of tools and techniques, the five core PM processes and the nine PM knowledge areas as described in the PMBOK. This course will prepare candidates to sit for the PMP examination.
Course Duration: 5 days
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Mastering Project Management
This course aims to help participants develop basic project management background knowledge and specific project planning skills. Through real-life project case study, participants will define specific project scope and activities, create a schedule, estimate cost budget. Participants will also learn risk management techniques and the essential attributes of a successful project manager.
Course Duration: 3 days
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Project Management Advanced Series
Program and Portfolio Management
This two-day workshop will discuss proven best practices employed by global companies for managing project portfolio. The Project Management Institute’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) will be introduced. Case studies and group discussion will help illustrate how to apply these best practices to IT organizations to achieve better ROI for their investments.
Certified PMPs can earn 15 PDUs towards maintaining their PMP credentials.
Course Duration: 2 days
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Outsourcing and Vendor Management
This is an intermediate course providing participants with the key skills for successful outsourcing and vendor management. The ability to manage vendors and third-party suppliers is essential for every manager nowadays. It is important to excel in every aspect of a vendor management cycle starting from make-or-buy / insource-or-outsource decision, vendor identification and selection, service transition, to managing the vendor over the life of a contract. This course covers different skills required during the various phases of a procurement cycle.
Certified PMPs can earn 15 PDUs towards maintaining their PMP credentials.
Course Duration: 2 days
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Effective Project Leadership and Communication
This is an intermediate course providing participants with key leadership and communication skills forsuccessful IT management. It covers areas such as human resources management and team building, allowing an IT manager to get the most out of a team. Proven human resources management theories will be discussed and more importantly, case studies and group exercises will help illustrate how they work in practice. Participants will be introduced to communication skills critical to their success including face-to-face conversation, meeting facilitation, using emails, presentation, and negotiation. An analysis of cultural diversity and its impact on leadership and communication will also be presented.
Certified PMPs can earn 15 PDUs towards maintaining their PMP credentials.
Course Duration: 2 days
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Six Sigma Green Belt Certification
Six Sigma is a comprehensive yet flexible system for achieving, supporting, and maximizing business profits. It is a methodology driven by understanding customer needs, and the disciplined use of data, facts, and statistical analysis to improve and reinvent organizational processes. This course is a comprehensive, hands-on orientation to the Six Sigma Green Belt body of knowledge and customized to include specific relevance to participants' technology and business domains.
Certified PMPs can earn 30 PDUs towards maintaining their PMP credentials.
Course Duration: 4 days
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Managing Software Development Projects
Software development projects are quite different from other conventional IT projects. This 2-day workshop will focus on specific skills and techniques required by practitioners in the software development field. The participants should have experience in the IT software development life cycles. Hands-on class exercises and case studies will be used to simulate real life situations. The participants will be able to apply what they learnt from the class immediately to real life software development projects.
Certified PMPs can earn 15 PDUs towards maintaining their PMP credentials.
Course Duration: 2 days
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Special Workshops for Managers
Change Leadership
This is an intermediate workshop providing participants with the key skills for leading organization-wide change program. It introduces the concept of change management, and provides a practical step-by-step approach to implementing changes within an organization.
Workshop Duration: 1 day
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Conflict Management and Project Negotiation
This is an intermediate workshop providing participants with the key skills for successful conflict management and negotiation under a project context. It provides the participants a step-by-step guide to effectivenegotiation strategy forming, detailed preparation, problem solving, persuasion techniques, relationship building, confrontation, handling difficult opponents, and breaking deadlocks.
Workshop Duration: 1 day
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Consulting Skills
Consultancy entails a complex range of skills and disciplines and combines them with a distinctive client focus. Consulting skills are essential for any managers serving either internal or external clients. This workshop provides managers with the basic skills required to gather information, understand client’s existing problems, propose solution, and handle resistance when launching solution implementation.
Workshop Duration: 1 day
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Celemi Enterprise
Success is a moving target. How do you get all your people behind your strategy in a marketplace that is rapidly changing? In the Celemi Enterprise?business simulation, six companies compete for the same customers in a dynamic marketplace.
Participants take on the roles of the management team ?comprised of Marketing and Sales, Development and Services, Planning and Delivery, Finance and Control. The main challenge is to build, and successfully execute a strategy that leads to winning results.
Workshop Duration: 2 days
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