PMI Exam Preparation (2 days)

Course Dates: 18^th & 19^th February & 6^th & 7^th May

Member Rate: €255.00

These courses are targeted at those who have previously attended the 3 day PMP course and who wish to sit the exam. It is prepared and delivered by experienced PMPs who help students understand the scope and rationale of the PMP® and CAPM® certification exams.

This course will help participants to:

• Understand the PMBOK® Guide V4.0
• Understand the PMP exam process, and some practical steps to maximise your success rate
• Understand the different types of questions and how to approach them, including situational questions, double negative questions, best fit questions and earned value questions
• Complete a number of sample questions in each of the knowledge areas, analysing the answers to understand the logic behind the correct answer
• Have focused training on areas where students have the most difficulty with the current exam.
• Have insider tips to taking and passing the exam from an industry professional who has taken and passed the exam.
• Be "prepped" to take the exam - this is a prep course and a review course.

So, if you wish to get certified as a Project Manager and another string to your bow! Please click here to book your place.

We also have these courses coming up next week:

Influencing & Negotiating Skills

Course Dates: 21^st & 22^nd February

Member Rate: €225.00

Learn to be an effective negotiator with our two day course in Influencing & Negotiating Skills. The programme aims to enable participants to influence the thinking and behaviour of others through the effective use of communication skills. This programme is designed to help participants to enhance their ability to communicate in a confident and professional manner. This course is ideal for those who wish to improve their persuading, influencing and negotiating skills, especially people working in the areas of marketing, sales, advertising and buying.

Learners who successfully complete this module will:

• Obtain practical techniques, strategies and skills for influencing others
• Be more confident in building rapport effortlessly with clients
• Discover their persuasion style and how to make a positive impact in using it
• Learn the skills to negotiate to lower overhead and maintain profit margins
• Understand the know-how of a negotiation process
• Be able to conduct the negotiation using persuasion and influencing skills
• Use the different negotiation approaches depending on the situation
• Be able to develop consensus in a negotiation process
• Identify the barriers in achieving a negotiation deal and learn how to deal with objections

This fantastic course will be run on the 21^st & 22^nd February next so don’t delay, BOOK TODAY!

Conflict Management

Course Dates:26^th & 27^th February

Member Rate: €250.00

Conflict is inevitable in groups and organisations, and it represents both a challenge and a true opportunity for every leader. When leaders handle conflict effectively, problem solving increases, interpersonal relationships become stronger and stress surrounding the conflict decreases. On completion of this course the participants will have a heightened awareness of their own personal conflict management style, be aware of the positive role of conflict and also be able to develop their mediation skills to manage an effective outcome via a mediation process.

This course is ideal for front line personnel- customer service, sales, complaint handling, procurement, operations, supervisors, and those involved in human resources. Click HERE to book a place.

The Business School @ Cork Chamber is also delighted to announce that we are launching 2 new courses, MS Visio Professional & MS Project. Please contact Aoife Dunne, Training Services Administrator at Aoife@corkchamber.ie for more information.