You know the basics of planning, executing and revising projects. This 90-minute advanced project management training for HR helps you build on them to keep projects on time, on budget and on target while balancing your daily work.

You'll revisit where PM standards and best practices come from and the project life cycle, then sharpen skills to lead and manage projects and use time proactively. The session covers assertive communication, active listening, RACI, and working with stakeholders and dispersed or virtual teams.

You'll also analyze and escalate risk, set an early warning system, build detailed plans, manage deviations, report what management wants and apply lessons learned.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

The basics are not enough for continued success. As you lead more projects you will face new challenges and need deeper knowledge of current standards and more sophisticated tools, which can feel overwhelming on top of other priorities.

You'll build a plan to add new skills and tools step by step. This program is for HR professionals, managers and project managers who have already completed a basic project management course.

AREA COVERED

Build on your fundamental knowledge

• Your current strengths and challenges in managing projects
• What a project is
• Where PM standards come from and how something becomes a best practice
• The project life cycle

Hone organizational skills

• Skills to lead a project successfully
• Skills to manage a project successfully
• Managing time proactively

Communicate even more effectively

• Finding your most effective communication zone
• Active assertive communication and active listening
• Managing project communication through RACI
• Challenges with stakeholders, dispersed teams and virtual teams

Avoid major project pitfalls

• Common pitfalls and their remedies
• Analyzing risk and setting up an early warning system
• Escalating risk proactively and expecting the unexpected

Meet project objectives

• Setting and clarifying concrete objectives
• Developing more detailed plans to reach them

Deliver on time, on budget and on target

• Executing detailed project plans
• Managing exceptions and deviations
• What management wants to hear in your reports

Continuous improvement

• Applying lessons learned throughout the project and going beyond them
• Keeping project data and key measurements

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Build on your fundamental project management knowledge
• Sharpen the organizational skills needed to lead and manage projects
• Communicate more effectively with stakeholders and virtual teams
• Avoid major project pitfalls through risk analysis and early warning
• Set clear objectives and detailed plans to meet them
• Bring projects in on time, on budget and on target

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• HR professionals who have taken a basic project management course
• Experienced HR Project Managers
• HR professionals
• HR managers
• HR personnel charged with improving project management