Great Escape Workshop

Are you able to bring an idea to fruition? Do you plan and use ‘what if’ scenarios? Do you struggle to respond to deficiencies in service delivery and keep up with day to day operations at the same time?  Then this workshop is for you. The Great Escape, as it came to be known, makes today's problems seem simple. You will see how project management was used by these men, intuitively, without laptops and spreadsheets, to find a resolution. 
 

Summary Description of Workshop

The Great Escape from the prison camp Stalag Luft III is widely regarded as one of the most audacious and daring escape attempts of the 20th century. But as an event in March 1944, set in dire circumstances, what actually happened? How was the escape planned and executed as a project? How did it get around numerous obstacles in a habitat designed to be escape proof? How was the project tracked?  If you were faced with similar circumstances, what what you do?  In today’s world business people are grappling with numerous obstacles in planning and executing projects in a climate of rapid changes.  Many of these challenges are not unlike those faced by the brave men of Stalag Luft III.  If you had gone through such an experience, what would you learn that could serve you in your work today?

Through this interactive workshop, you will be given a chance to use just the skills you bring with you to tackle some of the most daunting project management problems ever faced by a team.   Participants will be “introduced” to life as a POW in World War II Germany.    You will begin to see what those men saw when they undertook to do the seemingly impossible.  The goal is to escape with valuable lessons you can use in your work.

Designed under the Lessons-from-History series, this Best Practice in Project Management Workshop will breathe new life into project management learning. The workshop takes lessons from the historical project and enables you to recognize the parallels in your own organization and projects. You will undertake a range of practical exercises throughout the day enabling you to relate lessons back to your own projects and apply new learning to your own projects.

This fully interactive one day workshop incorporates principles from leading Project Management methodologies such as PMBOK and PRINCE2, but also demonstrates that successful Project Management does not need sophisticated tools.  Upon the successful completion of this workshop, you will be able to better utilize project management and identify warning signs that could take a project off track, and how to counter these.

Who Should Attend?

Project Management methodology can be used by a broad range of workers.  From coordinators through to middle and senior levels of management, anyone who has ever been tasked with ‘getting the job done' can benefit from attending these workshops: 
 

 Are you responsible for Managing Projects in your workplace?

 Do you contribute to project outcomes?

 Managers, Project Managers and members of teams responsible for contributing to project outcomes will all benefit from the insights gained from this unique workshop.

Although the workshop does incorporate principles from leading Project Management methodologies such as PMBOK and PRINCE2, it also demonstrates that successful Project Management does not need sophisticated tools.