English For Project Managers: Business Environment

Navigating Compliance, Culture, and Change

What you'll learn

Develop a specialised project management vocabulary to better understand professional documents, exams, and industry materials.

Improve comprehension of complex project management texts through strategies that help untangle sophisticated content.

Apply project management tools and techniques by solving real-life case studies and comparing them with expert solutions.

Prepare for globally recognised project management certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, and IPMA by mastering key terminology and concepts.

Requirements

Intermediate level of English proficiency (B1-B2 CEFR)

Description

Study English by learning Project Management, study Project Management by learning English. This course is designed to help you achieve both. English for Project Managers: Business Environment is the eighth of the nine modules in the English for Project Managers course. The complete course will cover all the topics needed to prepare for the highly recognised Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®.To earn most of the recognised Project Management certifications, such as Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute (PMI®), PRINCE2 Practitioner from AXELOS, or Certified Project Manager (CPM) from the International Association of Project Managers (IAPM), you have to pass a rigorous exam. The exam questions are based on sophisticated professional texts full of Project Management terminology and complex business lexicon. To get to the gist of a question and answer it correctly, you have to build a solid, specialised vocabulary and develop advanced reading skills. This course’s aim is to help you do exactly that.The course is designed in a way that helps you remember difficult project management-related vocabulary and specific project management terms. It is done not by directly giving you the definitions but by offering a series of specially designed exercises to help you to guess the meanings of the new words and project management terms yourself. This approach makes the definitions stick in your memory.The course is based on professional project management texts adapted from such sources as Project Management Body of Knowledge, Process Groups: A Practice Guide, Governance of Portfolios, Programmes, and Projects: A Practice Guide published by Project Management Institute (PMI), the provider of the highly regarded Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification, and others.Each unit contains an introductory case, which describes the project situation, illustrating the importance of some project management concepts. It is followed by a series of articles on specific project management tools and techniques related to the concept. After reading an article and completing related exercises, you will have the opportunity to apply each tool to a like-real project situation by solving a short case study. You will be able to check your solutions by comparing them to the example solutions accompanied by detailed explanations. At the end of each unit, there is a test on the new vocabulary, terms, and project management concepts learnt in the unit.Good luck with your studies!

Overview

Section 1: Compliance lessons from the Boeing 737 project

Lecture 1 Compliance Quote

Lecture 2 Boeing 737 Example

Lecture 3 Boeing 737 Multiple Choice Quiz Explained

Lecture 4 Boeing 737 True, False, Not given Quiz Explained

Section 2: Plan and manage project compliance

Lecture 5 Compliance Categories

Lecture 6 Compliance Multiple-Choice Quiz Explained

Lecture 7 Compliance True, False, Not given Quiz Explained

Lecture 8 Compliance Practice Case-study

Section 3: Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value

Lecture 9 Tools and Techniques for Decision-Making

Lecture 10 Tools and Techniques for Decision-Making Multiple Choice Quiz Explained

Lecture 11 Tools and Techniques for Decision-Making True, False, Not given Quiz Explained

Lecture 12 Tools and Techniques for Decision-Making Case-study

Section 4: Evaluate and address external business environment changes

Lecture 13 Adapting Project Scope to External Business Environment Changes

Lecture 14 External Changes Multiple-Choice Quiz Explained

Lecture 15 External Changes True, False, Not given Quiz Explained

Lecture 16 External Changes Case-study

Section 5: Support organisational change

Lecture 17 Adapting Change Strategies to Organisational Culture

Lecture 18 Organisational Change Multiple-Choice Quiz Explained

Lecture 19 Organisational Change True, False, Not given Quiz Explained

Lecture 20 Organisational Change Case-study

Section 6: Final Tests

Those who are studying Project Management and planning or preparing for globally recognised project management certification exams such as PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA, etc.,Project management specialists who have recently started or are about to start to work in an all-English-speaking environment.,Those who are looking for a project management-related job in an all-English-speaking environment.