ABOUT LEADMARK PROJECT DELIVERY TRAINING

Who We Are

Project Management Training Courses for Non-Project Managers

Your time matters. Your training should too.

We provide training (through in-person and online project management courses) that equips participants who are non-project managers with practical fit-for-purpose tools and techniques that will help them plan and execute a project that has been assigned to them.

Leadmark Project Delivery’s focus is on sharing the experience of our Director through practical Project Training for Business People. This training is different from other project training as it is focused on business people who are not and will not become professional project managers. It blends the most effective project management and project leadership best practices into a coherent, easy to apply method. We have developed a comprehensive program of courses from PM101 as an introductory course, PM201 with more advanced material, and PM301 to help leaders effectively guide and motivate their project teams.

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Our Approach

Our training includes personal reflection, case studies, real-world examples, presentations, videos, and is:

Practical
Easy to Apply
Engaging
Interactive

What Makes Us Different

Our Experience

This training has been created through the lens of 48 years of project leadership and project management experience as a farmer, naval office, project manager, project director, and project leader.

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Our Feedback

We consistently receive excellent feedback from our participants of our training.

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THE LEADMARK DIFFERENCE

Here's what people have to say about our project training

"The overall style of training (coaching) was useful as we were able to complete our own personal case study that is relevant to our work stream. Thank you for the practical approach to this training."

Project Leader
"There was a ton of useful information. One that really stood out to me was the planning to make a good decision. I think this is a great layout to utilize, we have used decision records in the past, I really like the ranking the various inputs to visually show how each option impacts the inputs."

Operations Coordinator
"It's a great start for anyone taking on a bigger role or getting started with our projects system. The behind the scenes look at the screening process was great and I feel like the biggest takeaway for me will be the information necessary to gather prior to bringing a project to my leader."

HR Project Coordinator

Doug Noullett

Director, Leadmark Project Delivery

"I often say I learned everything I need to know about project management on the farm."

Douglas Noullett, Director

Get things done

with our practical and effective training

Easy to use

workbooks, templates, tools and examples designed to be applied to future work.

Deliver projects

and stand-out at work.

Meet Doug Noullett

I have been involved in projects for 48 years. In hindsight my project experience began on a farm in Northern Alberta, and it was developed over the 16+ years I served as an officer in Canada’s Navy. When I left the Navy, I became an official project manager for the first time and never looked back. I spent the next 29 years further developing my skills as a project manager, project director, and project leader in several industries across three continents. I thought I was going to retire at the end of 2023, but fate intervened. I was asked to try teaching how I lead, organize and manage smaller business-type projects. I was skeptical, but after a very successful pilot course we just kept going. Now hundreds of people across several industries and organizations have taken some variation of the training, and feedback is still very positive. So we have decided to take the next step.

At this point in my career, I am most interested in sharing my experience with other people. The goal is to help them learn from the many mistakes I made, lessons I learned, teams I have worked with, and projects I have delivered. I have developed an extensive toolbox of examples, templates, workbooks and other tools, complemented with tips and tricks, techniques, and rules of thumb amplified by project leadership behaviours. Leadmark Project Delivery has developed the Project Training for Business People program to share all this with anyone interested, but most particularly for those people who are not project managers.

The training has been delivered to hundreds of people across several industries and clients in-person in-classrooms, and over teams. Feedback has been extremely positive and that is why we are now providing the training to corporate organizations as a set of LMS-enabled professionally developed e-learning modules, and to individuals using the same professionally developed e-learning modules from the Leadmark Project Delivery website (www.leadmarkprojects.ca). Initial feedback on the e-learning courses has been again very positive.

Project Lessons Learned From The Farm

I often say I learned everything I need to know about project management on the farm. When I was 16 my dad and I struck a deal – I would provide all the labour to run our small family farm, he would provide the equipment and expertise, and we would split all costs and revenue 50/50. Farming for those few short years was a foundational experience. The “trial-by-fire” project management experience I gained from my dad – a WWII veteran with a grade 8 education, a heart of gold and a work ethic I have never seen matched - has been priceless. Here are the big concepts that have stayed with me all this time.

Selecting the right crop (concept) is really important. Pick the wrong crops and profits will be limited no matter what happens after.
Negotiate with a win/win approach – because they are your neighbours.
Manage risks and pursue opportunities with equal determination. Farming is fraught with risk so you had better get after the opportunities whenever you can.
Hard work matters. It just does, and you learn that quickly on a farm.
Bad stuff happens – get over it. A squirrel stored grain in the exhaust pipe of our combine. We had to replace the engine right in the middle of harvest. Didn’t see that coming!