Project Management for administrative professionals
Learn to plan, schedule, budget, track and close projects as an administrative professional, using proven project management techniques without a formal team.
Speaker
Rebecca Staton-Reinstein
Leadership consultant and author · Advantage Leadership, Inc. · Ph.D., organizational development
Overview
Administrative professionals now handle many tasks once done by specialists, and much of that work is really a project. Because it is rarely recognized as such, few receive the training or tools to manage it well, and the work lands on a full schedule with decisions made elsewhere and no team to help.
This 90-minute project management webinar for administrative professionals adapts widely used methods so you can deliver results on time and on budget while avoiding the biggest pitfalls. You'll cover project initiation and stakeholder analysis, requirements and scope, a work breakdown structure, the critical path, scheduling and tracking, budgets, risk, communication, monitoring and control, and closure with lessons learned.
You don't need the title of project manager to succeed as one.
Why attend: A large, unfamiliar assignment can shake anyone's confidence, especially when roadblocks appear or risks become real. The fundamentals of project management, used on projects around the world, give you a reliable way through. This session suits administrative professionals, executive assistants, office managers, supervisors and small business owners who want to manage projects well, build on their current performance and prepare for more advanced work.
What’s covered
- What projects are and where they fit
- Project success factors and pitfalls
- Articulating the project's business problem
- Performing a stakeholder analysis
- Discovering requirements
- Analyzing scope, constraints and assumptions
- Creating a work breakdown structure and tactical plan
- Managing the critical path
- Scheduling, assigning responsibility and tracking
- Managing your budget
- Defining risks in a risk impact matrix
- Tracking, managing and proactively escalating risk
- Managing people and communicating effectively
- Managing and monitoring scope, schedule, cost and quality
- Applying lessons learned for continuous improvement
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Ph.D., and President of Advantage Leadership, Inc. works with leaders and their organizations to Increase your bottom-line results through strategic leadership, engaged employees, and delighted customers in all economic sectors. Draw on her proven ability to mentor you through major change, customizing successful solutions to your complex issues. For over 25 years, Rebecca has contributed value as an executive, manager, educator, and consultant, honored on four continents. She is a Ph.D. in organizational development, a National Speakers Association Legacy Professional Member, and St. Petersburg Engineering Academy Foreign Member and author of books on strategic leadership and planning.
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