Bespoke. Hands-On. Built Around You.

Let’s be honest – project management often feels harder than it should. For many organisations, it’s something that “just happens” until deadlines slip, budgets overrun, and everyone feels like they’re running to catch up.

That’s why we built our Project Management Training Programme: to help businesses stop firefighting and start delivering projects with confidence.

But this isn’t a click-through online course. Our training is a bespoke, custom-built learning experience, tailored to your business and delivered in-person by our team of experts. It’s designed to give your team the tools, confidence, and processes to run projects successfully, every time. So, your team can feel in control working on your real challenges.

Lots of courses promise results. Here’s why ours delivers:

✅ Real-World Experience: Our trainers are senior project leaders with over 25 years’ experience delivering projects in supply chain, logistics, and operations for companies such as Rolls-Royce.

✅ Proven Track Record: Since starting North Star in 2019, for the last 6 years, we’ve been delivering complex projects for global brands like Barbour, Alstom, Tosca, and Irving – so we know what it takes to deliver real outcomes and make projects succeed in the real world.

✅ Tailored to You: We design every programme around your business, your challenges, and your goals. Every session is customised to suit your needs, so it feels relevant from the start.

✅ Personable Approach: We don’t just teach. We partner with your team, building trust and confidence so they leave feeling empowered, confident and capable to put their new skills to work.

Our training is grounded in the same market knowledge and hands-on delivery experience that drives real projects forward. That’s something you simply don’t get from an off-the-shelf course. It’s a business growth plan disguised as project management training – and it works.

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We keep things clear and practical, using a simple process that works every time:

We don’t start with a generic training deck.

We start with you.

Our first step is a deep dive into your organisation – your culture, challenges, and current ways of working. For some businesses, this means shadowing live projects to spot gaps. For others, it’s about surfacing frustrations:

• Where are projects getting stuck?
• Who’s carrying the load but lacks the tools to succeed?
• What’s stopping you from hitting deadlines and budgets?

We talk to your team, observe how projects are run today, and uncover what’s really holding things back so we can design training that solves your problems.

It’s not about pointing fingers – it’s about understanding your world so we can help you fix what’s frustrating you.

Insight: According to PMI, poor project performance wastes 12% of every dollar invested – that’s £120k lost for every £1M spent on projects.

Our discovery phase helps you stop that waste before it starts by finding where projects are breaking down.

Once we understand your challenges, we create a training programme built just for you.

That means:

• Tailoring examples to your sector
• Using real-world scenarios in exercises
• Designing sessions that fit your pace and priorities
• Customising our existing project management training framework to suit your business needs

This isn’t theory for theory’s sake. It’s practical, relevant, and actionable.

Example: We’ve built training modules for operational teams who had never used a formal project framework – equipping them with the tools to deliver on-time and on-budget, often for the first time.

Our project management training isn’t passive. We don’t just lecture at your people – we get them doing.

That means live sessions, workshops, and real-world exercises where teams practice:

• Defining project scope and goals
• Building realistic timelines (with 30% buffer to avoid “wishful thinking” schedules)
• Identifying risks early and planning responses
• Improving communication and stakeholder engagement

It’s interactive, it’s hands-on, and it’s designed so people walk away feeling more confident and ready to tackle their next project.

Impact: Companies that invest in structured project management training see project success rates rise by up to 70–80%, compared to 40–50% without it. [Source: PMI]

We don’t just run the training and disappear.

We leave you with:

• Clear summary of key learnings
• North Star Lite PM Toolkit – ready-to-use templates and checklists
• Post-training support to help your team embed their new skills
• Action plan for applying learning to live projects

Training only works if it drives change long after we leave. That’s why we focus on embedding learning into your day-to-day work.

The result? Functional leaders and operational staff leave with practical skills they can apply immediately – and the confidence to run projects effectively long after we’re gone.

Our training isn’t just about learning – it’s about lasting change.

By following our four-stage process – Discovery → Custom Design → Delivery → Outtakes – we work with you to diagnose your real project management gaps, deliver solutions that upskill your people and help your team shift from firefighting to leading projects with clarity, confidence, and control. Giving them the capability and skills to run successful projects long after we’ve gone.

When your people are equipped to run projects well, everything gets better: timelines are met, costs stay on track, and your business gets the outcomes it needs to grow.

At North Star we’re here to guide you to success.

The Well Known Truth: Upskilled teams run projects that hit deadlines, control costs, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Let’s have a chat. We’ll start with a no-pressure conversation to see where you’re struggling – and build a training programme that gets your team where they need to be.

Contact us today for a FREE consultation:

office@northstarprojects.co.uk

+44 1524 233 755