It's an in-house training created by and for my employer, but it's based in PMI principles because they encourage PMP certification. (All of our instructors and facilitators were PMPs, and the company offers a more intensive training for people who want to go that route.) This week was the kickoff, which I'd describe as an interactive lecture -- mostly it was people going through prepared slides, but we had regular breaks for written activities and breakout sessions, and we were encouraged to ask questions and interact via the chat at any time. I was wrong about the duration -- it's six months, not a year. Starting next month, we'll have five monthly meetings on a specific topic, preceded and followed by homework and threaded text chat (on MS Teams). We've also been assigned a mentor who we're supposed to meet with for at least half an hour a month. We're allotted 30 hours total PD time for the whole thing, including the synchronous meetings and the asynchronous activities. The kickoff was a lot of information, but I learned useful things about both PM in general and about how projects are managed at my company. If you want more details, let me know!
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It's an in-house training created by and for my employer, but it's based in PMI principles because they encourage PMP certification. (All of our instructors and facilitators were PMPs, and the company offers a more intensive training for people who want to go that route.) This week was the kickoff, which I'd describe as an interactive lecture -- mostly it was people going through prepared slides, but we had regular breaks for written activities and breakout sessions, and we were encouraged to ask questions and interact via the chat at any time. I was wrong about the duration -- it's six months, not a year. Starting next month, we'll have five monthly meetings on a specific topic, preceded and followed by homework and threaded text chat (on MS Teams). We've also been assigned a mentor who we're supposed to meet with for at least half an hour a month. We're allotted 30 hours total PD time for the whole thing, including the synchronous meetings and the asynchronous activities. The kickoff was a lot of information, but I learned useful things about both PM in general and about how projects are managed at my company. If you want more details, let me know!