This course offers registrants an opportunity to learn about collaborative risk identification, alignment processes and prioritization, and integrated project planning through hands-on application of the approaches throughout the training.

Dates: January 10, 17, 24, 2022

Duration: 12 hours : 3 live-session hours over 3 days, plus 1 hour/wk review

Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm EST - Check the exact time and date in your city here.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course you will:

• Understand the range of project risk and requirement types associated with long-term project lifecycles
• Experience how affinity and value stream mapping can facilitate open dialogue between siloed disciplines
• Understand how to discover systems-based ESG and SDG risks and improvement opportunities
• Have a strategy to identify relevant project stakeholders, including those who might introduce less obvious requirements for the project
• Have a basis for better communication to create or improve alignment on the scope of the project, including the multiple project objectives of all involved stakeholders

Course Structure and Delivery

This course will be taught live - virtually, in a group setting over the course of three x 3-hour sessions, with a large proportion of time dedicated to applied and interactive exercises.

To allow for full comprehension and understanding, the course will be a blend of hands-on and own-project learning, and as such more than half of the class duration will involve active, applied work within the class.

Problem relevancy and solution guidance will be introduced in short 20-30 min lectures, while lecture periods will be interspersed with interactive polling and instructor-led, independent reflection, 1-1 and roundtable dialogues, group sharing / reviews, and virtual brainstorm and mapping exercises.

Exercises will include:

• Roundtable introductions & polling – to help engage the class at the start, and encourage recognition of differing perspectives, knowledge and experiences
• Brainstorming around project components, risks and requirements  – to help identify scope of a project, as well as increase recognition of knowledge & experience of a “team”
• Affinity mapping of mining development components – to identify interrelated functions, and understand complexity of the system
• Flow mapping of the mining value chain
• Brainstorming identification & dialogue – regarding project stakeholders and their primary concerns, as well as “wastes” within the system
• Optimization exercises – to practice how we might prioritize work and discover alternative solutions for better environmental performance and social acceptance
• Small group exercises – to analyze example project components, to help participants understand how to identify the necessary information required for design, as well as which stakeholders to engage, to identify appropriate options to assess for said component
• Several opportunities for dialogue during and after each exercise

This course is ideal  for: 

• Project Managers, Business Analysts, Engineers and Designers – in the mining sector looking to gain a foundational starting point in understanding the complexities of such projects, the associated environmental and social impacts, and how they might set themselves up for success
• Project Managers – who may be facing scope creep and change-requests stemming from external stakeholders with environmental and social concerns
• Project Team members – who want a better understanding of how their work is intertwined within the whole project