Microsoft Project Intermediate
Enhance your Microsoft Project skills with our Intermediate course designed for those familiar with basic functionalities. Learn to manage resources, track project progress, and create detailed Gantt charts efficiently over one day.
Audience
Our Microsoft Project Intermediate course is suitable for those with basic working knowledge and experience of MS Project.
Pe-requisites
A working knowledge of MS Project is required.
Duration
6 hoursDelivery Method
Face to face or VirtualCOURSE BENEFITS
This course is designed for those users who wish to improve their current knowledge of Project to take advantage of the more complex features. On completion of the course, delegates will use project to help manage their resources and costs; to set plans, deadlines and schedules. At this level they will be able to track their project and create and print Gantt charts and reports.
COURSE CONTENT
MANAGING RESOURCES AND COSTS
- Creating work, material, and cost resources
- Working with multiple calendars
- Assigning resources
- Effort driven scheduling
- Task types
- Working with resource costs and fixed costs
- Work contours
- Working with the Team Planner
- Identifying budget variance
FINALISING THE PLAN
- Reviewing the schedule
- Levelling resource over-allocation
TRACKING
- Creating baselines
- Entering project progress
- Viewing variance information
ANALYSE AND ADJUST A SCHEDULE
Stakeholder Management: Influence, Engagement and Control
Develop advanced stakeholder management skills to navigate complex environments, influence without authority, and sustain effective engagement across the full project or change lifecycle.
Stakeholder Management Essentials
Build the skills to identify, analyse, and engage stakeholders effectively, driving better outcomes across projects, change initiatives, and operational delivery.
How to be Assertive
Develop the confidence to communicate clearly, set boundaries, and handle challenging interactions professionally while maintaining empathy and positive relationships.
Becoming an Effective Manager
Develop the skills, confidence and strategies needed to lead people, manage performance, and build a high-performing team in your organisation.
Finance for Non-Financial Managers
Gain the financial confidence to interpret accounts, manage budgets, and make informed decisions that drive profitability and organisational success.
Strategy for Advanced Senior Leaders
Strengthen strategic thinking and decision making using practical frameworks to evaluate options and drive organisational performance.
Influencing Tactics
Build practical influencing skills to gain buy in, strengthen relationships and shape thinking without relying on authority.
Introduction to Interview Skills (For Interviewers)
Build confidence and structure in interviewing through practical techniques for fair, consistent and effective candidate assessment.
Advanced Interview Skills
Develop fair, structured and inclusive interviewing skills to improve candidate experience and selection decisions.
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Turn menopause policies into practical, consistent workplace support through confident conversations and effective implementation.
