Administrative professionals now handle work that used to go to specialists, and much of it is really a project. Because these assignments often aren't recognized as projects, few admins get the training or tools to manage them well. This 90-minute project management webinar fills that gap.

You'll adapt widely used project management approaches to your role: defining the business problem, analyzing stakeholders, gathering requirements, building a work breakdown structure and managing the critical path. The session also covers budgets, risk, communication and monitoring scope, schedule, cost and quality.

You don't need the title to be a successful project manager, and these skills carry into every assignment and prepare you for more advanced work.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

A large new assignment with no team, decisions made elsewhere and an already full schedule can shake anyone's confidence, especially when roadblocks appear or risks come true. The fundamentals of project management, used on projects around the world, give you proven techniques to get results on time and on budget.

The session suits administrative professionals, executive assistants, office managers, supervisors and small business owners.

AREA COVERED

The context for project management

• What projects are and where they fit
• Project success factors and pitfalls

Project initiation

• Stating the project's business problem
• Stakeholder analysis

Planning and scheduling

• Discovering requirements
• Analyzing scope, constraints and assumptions
• Creating a work breakdown structure and tactical plan
• Managing the critical path
• Scheduling, assigning responsibility and tracking

Cost management

• Managing your budget

Risk management

• Defining risks in a risk impact matrix
• Tracking, managing and escalating risk proactively

Human resource and communication plan

• Managing people and communicating effectively

Execution, monitoring and control

• Managing and monitoring scope, schedule, cost and quality

Project closure

• Applying lessons learned for continuous improvement

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• State the business problem your project will solve
• Replace a to-do list with tasks organized into logical groups in a plan
• Manage your project team of key stakeholders
• Track progress and recover quickly when things slip
• Show that a project was completed successfully
• Apply lessons learned to the next project

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• Administrative Professionals
• Executive Assistants
• Office Managers
• Supervisors
• Small Business Owners