Consulting Services to help you run Project Management systems

The chances are that you probably know why some of your Projects don't go well ...
You have probably been involved in the Post Mortem meetings and wiped sore eyes

What you may not know is why the middle 80% of projects don't seem to run smoothly.

A Rainmaker consultant knows that you sometimes have to dance to different tunes.
Even in tough times this can create opportunities for your people & business to grow.
It may mean looking at what you do and the way that you do it. 
The systems that support you and your people in what they do.

It may also mean looking at the people who are performing the tasks.
It may also mean looking at how they are trained for the tasks they have to do.
It may also mean that you revise your processes and procedures too.

Rainmaker consultants, through their experiences at the sharp-end having worked with numerous project implementations, project audits and project rescues, understand the critical success factors that influence project outcomes.

They understand that methodologies like PRINCE2 are important.
They also know that even when using them together with the latest PM technologies that success is not guaranteed.
They also understand that the return on investment for traditional training is widely acknowledged to be low.
Collaborating with stakeholders and project team members is a vital component that is often not managed effectively.
What is it that we deliver to you?

Project Success Planning (PSP) is a collaborative coaching process that:-

        * Engages the project team and key stakeholders
        * Provides more insight and increases the chance of success
        * Supports and complements existing tools and methods
        * Provides reinforcement to good practices
        * Increases the ROI on any earlier training investment
        * Focuses on leading performance indicators
        * Avoids pitfalls and keeps projects on track
        * Provides a coaching mechanism for Project Delivery Management
        * Ensuring consistent and relevant reviews
        * Develops more capable and motivated Project Managers

What will the Rainmaker team give you?

• Sound advice to help decide best approaches to increase project performance
• Help to translate that into increased revenue and margin
• A 90-day performance improvement route map
• Assistance to put together and implement action plans
• Insight into what behaviours accelerate, sustain or block success
• Assistance to achieve more than you could on your own

What will the Rainmaker Team do?

Know that in Rainmaking their job is to create the conditions for growth

Also know that the people usually know how to grow themselves

Sense when to support and when to challenge you.

Show you how to build support for your plan in the way that you build it

What are the people like from the Rainmaker Team?

People who

• Have a wealth of relevant business experience to bring to your situation
• Who quickly grasp your needs and the nature of your business
• Are experienced corporate managers in most cases
• People who know that life is for living and enjoying the journey

Who actually delivers the Performance Consulting on Project Management?

It depends and we'll always check for "Chemistry but here's an example of one of our consultants

Chris Stott:  

He's worked with a number of blue chip companies, local authorities and
other public sector organisations including BAE Systems, BVT Surface Fleet,
AgustaWestland and Network Rail and Costain.

He specializes in leading individuals and project teams through change using
a holistic approach that recognises the critical balance between
project process and human behaviours.

Particular areas of interest include; the skills and values of a successful project
manager, creating project objectives from an unbounded vision/scope and the
skills, attitudes and behaviours required to produce decision based project reviews.

Mike Watson:

Mike has worked with a number of blue chip companies, local authorities and other public sector organisations including AT&T, BSkyB, BT, HMRC, Essex County Council, and the London Development Agency.
Mike has a passionate belief that the level of project management capability in the UK can be significantly improved by the application of Project Success Planning.

Take a look at Our People if you want to know more about our consultants

How about an example of someone we’ve done Project Management systems consulting for?

One recent client used us to implement Project Success Planning in their Service Delivery organisation.

41 people (including 11 Project managers) in  11 key projects
Everyone was coached in the application of PSP over a 6 month period

Our Client was very satisfied with their results:-

    * All of their Project Managers now focus on factors that make a difference
    *  Each Project Manager’s capability has improved
          o Particularly Stakeholder Relationship Management
    *  Project Managers focus on the importance of providing project outcomes
          o  Ones with clear links & benefit to organisations business objectives
    * Project Management productivity has increased substantially
    * Significantly more projects are completed on time

How about another  example of someone we’ve done Project Management Systems consulting for?

 One client has used us to implement an inexpensive system that links previously
Geographically disparate Microsoft Project systems used in HQ but not visible in the
regions. This gave major improvements in visibility and early warnings to the
customer facing teams.

Coupling that system implementation with training in soft skills for the services
deliverers and customer facing teams plus minor changes in processes has already
paid for all the costs associated with the project and the software.

If this program looks like something that would help you…

What should you do now?                  You have a number of options:

Call us on 0845 652 1955

• We are an experienced team, focused and small in number
• And like to keep busy... so if you want to be first in the queue
• This is the option to choose

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Email us info@rainmaker-coaching.co.uk

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Our consultants will respond back
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