HR and administrative professionals are often handed work that used to go to specialists. These assignments are really projects, but they rarely come with training, tools or a team. This 60-minute project management webinar for non-project managers shows how to plan, run and finish them on time and on budget.

You'll start with what projects are and the factors behind success and failure, then define the business problem and analyze stakeholders. Planning covers requirements, scope, constraints and assumptions, a work breakdown structure, the critical path, scheduling and tracking.

The session also covers budget management, risk management with a risk impact matrix, people and communication plans, monitoring scope, schedule, cost and quality, and applying lessons learned at closure.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

Facing a large assignment with no experience of that kind of work can shake your confidence, especially when roadblocks appear. The fundamentals of project management, used on projects in every sector, give you proven techniques to stay on track and get results.

This session suits administrative professionals, executive assistants, HR professionals and generalists, 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

• Defining 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 early

Human resource and communication plan

• Managing people and communication

Execution, monitoring and control

• Monitoring scope, schedule, cost and quality

Project closure

• Applying lessons learned for continuous improvement

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Define the business problem your project will solve
• Replace a to-do list with a formal plan of logically grouped tasks
• Manage critical stakeholders as your project team
• Track progress and recover quickly when work slips
• Demonstrate successful project completion
• Apply lessons learned to your next project

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• Administrative Professionals
• Executive Assistants
• HR Professionals & Generalists
• Office Managers
• Supervisors
• Small Business Owners