Project Management

Description

Understand the essentials of project management with this comprehensive course, designed to equip you with practical tools and techniques to manage projects effectively from start to finish.

• Build your toolbox to manage projects from the initial idea to project closing.
• Learn a step by step proven methodology that will help you ask the right questions, manage your project risks and engage teams toward success.
• Get resources, templates and approaches that you can apply directly to your projects.
• Our experienced facilitators use group break-out sessions, exercises and actual public sector examples to explore the principles of project management and their application to your work.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to scope and plan all aspects of a project. 
• Understand how to manage risks and ensure team commitment through delivery and implementation. 
• Practice some of the key foundational practices of project management, from planning to execution and evaluation.

Duration:

• 3 hours, including brief intervals to facilitate continuous engagement and effective learning.

Certificate in Frontline Leadership

This course is part of the Certificate in Frontline Leadership offered by the institute. Through a blend of core and elective courses, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to excel in their roles and drive their teams towards success.

Facilitators

Mr. François Gagnon served as Vice-President of the Learning Lab at the IOG for 6 years.He brings rich experience in the area of public sector learning and leadership.  

Mr. Gagnon worked in the Public Service of Canada for 25 years, including 13 years as executive. He had the privilege to organize national ministerial consultations, to negotiate international and federal-provincial agreements and to lead national Grants and Contribution programs. At the Canada School of Public Service, he developed a change management and coaching practice. As Senior Director of Leadership Development, he led and oversaw the review of the entire suite of the School’s Leadership Development products for the Government of Canada. 

In 2014, Mr. Gagnon founded Lead-Action, a firm specialized in Leadership Development. He joined the Institute on Governance in 2019 where he has been using his knowledge and expertise to build on the IOG’s strong reputation in this area. 

Mr. Gagnon has a Degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Project Management during which he specialized in Leadership and Change Management. Over the last 20 years, he was lecturing in Leadership and Change at the University of Ottawa and Université du Québec en Outaouais. He completed required certifications to teach and administer a large range of psychometric instruments including products from the Center for Creative Leadership, Insights Discovery and two emotional intelligence instruments. He has facilitated and has managed the delivery of a large number of Leadership Development products and courses, including organizational 360-degree feedback processes and executive coaching in a large number of organizations in Canada and abroad. Mr. Gagnon was also invited to teach Leadership and Change Management at the University of Moscow and at the Russian Academy of Public Administration and has led the development of a Leadership Development program for Deputy Ministers of the Government of Ukraine. Through his work at Lead Action, he also contributed to leadership development projects in Indonesia, Belize and Mexico. 

In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Gagnon holds a Private Pilot license and is a classically trained pianist who performs regularly in the region.