SQDC Business School - Your Organization's Partner in Project Management Learning
Project management has nerver been more crucial to organizational success. Studies from sources as diverse as U.S News & World Report, the Economist Intelligence Unit and the National Association of Colleges and Employers reveal that organizations and employees both agree that project management is the strategic competency that enables them to deliver expected benefits and value through effective planning, organization, and risk mitigation.
Find out how PMI and SQDC Business School can provide your organization and employees with the resorces they need to develop and certify these critical skills.
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Safegaurding Your Training Investment
Although there are a number of possilble sources
for project management training, SQDC Business
School stands out. SQDC Business School is a PMI
Registered Education Provider, one of a select
group of organizations whose course content and
instructions have been found to meet the exacting
standards of Project Management Institute (PMI),
the worlds largest project management association.
Selecting SQDC Business school maximizes your
organization and employees training investment, by
ensuring that the instruction receieved always
reflects the latest advances in project
managementpractice, and is fully aligned with the
standards that have been proven to provide
measurable value to organizations around the world.
A recent PMI R.E.P. Benchmarking Survey shows that
over 75% of training clients prefer to use an
R.E.P. when they hire project management training
providers.
Last year, almost 700,000 professionals turned to a
PMI R.E.P. for their project management training
needs.
Global Standards
PMI’s global family of standards focuses
on providing organizations and their employees
the knowledge and framework they need to
increase success. Developed and updated through
a global collaboration between working
professionals, executives and academic
researchers, they focus on improving results in
everything from managing projects, programs and
portfolio, to applying specific practices such
as scheduling, risk and earned value
management. The family includes A Guide to the
Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK® Guide), the best-selling project
management and business book of all time.
Certifying Employee Expertise and Increasing Organizational Performance
Countless organizations around the world value
PMI’s certifications as one of the most
effective means to verifying project management
expertise. It can be seen as a hiring
requirement or preferences in a wide range of
industries: from finance to healthcare, from
media to construction, from government to IT.
One recent PriceWaterHouseCoopers study makes
clear the reason why PMI certifications are so
widely used: in a global survey of hundreds of
projects from organizations around the world,
PMI’s credential holders were identified
as the group most responsible for delivering
high-performing projects.
Today, almost 500,000 project managers of all
levels from organizations around the world have
identified one of PMI’s certifications as
the most effective way to validate their
project management knowledge and expertise.
As a PMI R.E.P. SQDC Business School is
approved to provide the training hours required
to earn these credentials and the ongoing
Professional Development Units needed to
maintain them.
PMI’s family of certifications spans a
wide range of experience levels and
specialties.
Entry-Level:
The Certified Associate in Project
Management (CAPM) ® certification was
developed exclusively to provide employees
and organizations with a mechanism to
verify a basic level of project management
expertise.
The Gold
Standard:
The world’s first project management
certification, the Project management
professional (PMP)® is considered the
“gold standard” credential for
project managers and verifies an
employee’s ability to successfully
lead and direct projects and teams.
PMI has also developed the Program
Management Professional (PgMP)®
credential, for those experience and
skill have grown to encompass working
at the most senior level, managing
multiple related projects and programs
to achieve strategic business goals.
PMI also offers several specialty
certifications, which verify mastery in
specific areas, such as agile
techniques, project risk management and
scheduling.
PathPro®
This interactive suite of tools enables
your project managers, team members and
supervisors to work together to
identify critical gaps in skills and
staffing and guide ongoing talent and
career development. Based on research
conducted with more than 5,000 project,
program and portfolio managers around
the world, PathPro has been credited by
organizations such as HP and Microsoft
with not only increasing efficiency and
profitability, but also dramatically
boosting employee satisfaction and
retention.
Career Headquarters
A Gartner survey identified
“project management” not
only as the number one hiring priority
of select companies surveyed, but also
as the one most frequently reported as
“difficult to hire”. As
part of PMI.org, the web’s
leading project management destination,
only PMI’s Career Headquarters
enables your organization to connect
with more than 600,000 PMI members and
credential holders.
PMI Membership
For US$129 a year, your employees can
receive a world of benefits and
opportunities that can, in turn,
provide tangible benefits to your
organization.
- Reduced training costs, through
individual discounts on exam fees,
online purchases, events and
professional development
opportunities.
- Reduced training material costs,
because their memberships includes free
access to all of the global
foundational standards, practice
standards and frameworks, which form
the basis for PMI’s
credentials.
- Access to one of the world’s
largest online libraries dedicated to
project management, which encompasses
hundreds of project management and
business books and the researches
monographs and white papers, reflecting
the results of the US$18 million PMI
has invested in research projects since
1997
- Professional development,
networking and knowledge-sharing
opportunities through a thriving global
community that spans hundreds of local
chapters and virtual communities of
practice.
- Subscriptions to all of PMI’s
publications, including the PM
Network®, a monthly professional
publication, Project Management
Journal®, a scholarly peer-reviewed
journal published quarterly in
Collaboration with John Wiley and Sons,
PMI Today®, a monthly magazine and
a full roster of
e-newsletters.
SQ Data & Consulting t/a SQDC Business School
SQDC Business School, is an ISO
9001-2008 certified, dynamic Training
and Services Provider that specializes
in delivering specialist and
cost-effective:
- Project Management training
Services
- Portfolio, Program and Project
Office Consulting Services
- SQDC Business School focuses on
providing excellent project management
training and consulting services to the
following public and private
sectors:
- Government; Engineering;
Construction; Manufacturing;
Retail