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Organization and Productivity
A Beginner's Guide to Project Management
Project managers need to be experts in planning, scheduling, coordinating, budgeting, organizing, controlling costs, and doing more with less.
They also need to recruit and motivate the right people-and mold them into a smoothly running project team.
In addition to the right tools and techniques, successful project management calls for discipline and solid skills in a number of competencies.
Whether you're a new or experienced project manager, you won't want to miss this new, skill-building workshop. Your instructor-an experienced leader of a myriad of successful projects-will show you how to:
- Successfully manage your project-from inception to completion
- Focus on certain critical areas
- Accurately estimate cost, time, and other resources
- Complete your projects on time
- Use automated tools such as Microsoft Project
- Master proven methods for staying focused on priorities
- Handle setbacks like a pro
- Use simple formulas to make the best use of time, money, and people
- Put PERT, CPM, and GNATT-and other powerful scheduling tools-to immediate use
- Keep your project moving forward despite inevitable snags and surprises you're sure to encounter
- Establish priorities when everything seems urgent
- Decide what kind of players you'll need on your team
- Keep team communication lines open and effective
- Overcome resistance to change
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Anyone charged with bringing a project requiring a cooperative effort to successful completion.
SEMINAR AGENDA:
- Getting Started
- Key Phases of a Project-and When They Occur
- Characteristics of Successful Project Managers
- Basic Laws of Project Management
- Managing Time, Cost, and Quality
- Why Projects Fail and How to Ensure Yours Doesn't
- Building a Successful Project Management Team
- Setting Priorities
- Powerful Project Management Tools
- A Project Management Case Study
For a printer friendly copy of entire agenda
Instructor: Mark Scureman, Bio
Schedule: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 (Course #097KBE) register
Fee: $349 (includes instruction, manual, lunch, parking, and refreshment breaks)
