Project Management Tips and Best Practices for Administrative Professionals
Learn to plan, run and close projects as an administrative professional, from defining the business problem and stakeholders to WBS, critical path, budget and risk.
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 most of these are really projects. Because management rarely labels them that way, few admins get project management training or tools, even as work piles onto a full schedule with no team and key decisions made elsewhere.
This 60-minute project management webinar for administrative professionals adapts widely used methods to that reality. You'll move through initiation, planning and scheduling, cost and risk management, people and communication, execution and control, and closure, while steering clear of the biggest project pitfalls.
You don't need the title of project manager to succeed as one, and these skills carry into every assignment and prepare you for more advanced work.
Why attend: A large, unfamiliar assignment can shake anyone's confidence, especially when roadblocks appear or risks come true. The fundamentals of project management, used on countless projects worldwide, give you proven techniques to get the results you need and show your value. This session suits administrative professionals, executive assistants, office managers, supervisors and small business owners.
What’s covered
- What projects are and where they fit
- Project success factors and pitfalls
- Stating the business problem
- 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 escalating risk proactively
- Managing people and communication effectively
- 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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