The Importance of Project Management Skills Training

Of all the competencies that businesses need from their employees in today's challenging economy, project management skills rank near the top. In a fast-paced, resource-constrained, hyper-competitive environment, businesses are made or broken by whether or not their project managers bring in projects on schedule, on spec, and on budget. Training and development of project management skills is essential to business success and sustainability.

E-Learning for Project Management Skills

For organizations seeking to advance their project management skills through a project management course or a full PMP certification training solution, online "e-learning" is an attractive alternative to classroom-based training. An online project management training course—delivered through the Internet or through an organization's internal intranet—can cost substantially less on a per-student-hour basis than classroom training. And a self-paced online project management course can be much more easily integrated into a busy project manager's schedule than a classroom course.

SkillSoft is a Trusted E-Learning Provider

SkillSoft is a trusted provider of e-learning services and solutions, delivering authoritative, well-designed e-learning content to more than 3,000 businesses and government agencies with more than 10 million end users. SkillSoft's high-quality content and its commitment to customer service have earned it the number-one ranking in customer satisfaction for the past three years in a row.

SkillSoft's Project Management Skills Solution

SkillSoft offers a wide range of e-learning resources to help novices, busy practitioners, or certificate-track professionals advance their project management skills:

• Self-paced interactive courseware to learn fundamental project management skills, to master specific project management skills, or to prepare for Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) certification.
• Online books and articles for on-demand access to broad or narrow project management skills topics.
• Simulation exercises encouraging realistic application of recently learned project management skills.
• Practice tests and online mentoring in support of PMP certification training.
• Instructor-led virtual classes on project management skills. SkillSoft's virtual classroom solution facilitates real-time interaction with subject matter experts, as well as with other students.

For a complete, integrated project management skills solution for your entire organization, SkillSoft offers the Project Management KnowledgeCenter™. This one-stop learning portal gives users easy, well-organized access to the full array of SkillSoft's project management skills resources.

To learn more about SkillSoft's project management training solution, Six Sigma course offerings, and other business and IT training solutions, please visit the SkillSoft home page now.