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Public
Courses — Career Based Course Curriculum — Tier 2
Project Management for
Administrators — 3 Day Program
Develop the skills and master the techniques to make each project
a success!
You can't help but notice how work is increasingly being handled by
project teams. Companies are becoming more project based. These new
circumstances require a set of skills to improve the way you work.
This is a specially tailored, very intensive learning experience to
equip you with the practical skills and techniques to be more successful
on the job.
Who
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Who Must Attend?
This seminar has specifically been designed for people in such roles
as executive secretary, administrative assistant, project coordinator,
project assistant. It is for people performing non-technical assignments,
administrative projects and tasks and also those supporting project
managers and project teams.
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The Benefits
This course will help you to:
- Save time
and reduce mistakes by organizing and planning your work.
- Understand
how to use basic project planning tools to ensure complete,
realistic and flexible project plans that are easily understood
and followed.
- Monitor the
progress of your projects using computer based project management
support systems.
- Understand
the different working styles of your colleagues and how to influence
others effectively to get things
done.
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Program Details
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1 |
Introduction
- The Project Management Method
- Characteristics
of the project management method, the people
and the system.
- Authority
of project leaders.
- Effect
of national, corporate and personal culture and values.
- The
five basic project management functions.
VIDEO:
The 4-hour House
Effective
Planning Behaviors
- Developing
project goals, objectives - agreements.
- Work
breakdown structures (WBS) - control.
- Project
organization and linear responsibility charts (LRC)
- accountability.
- Scheduling
(GANTT, PERT, CPM) - communications.
WORKSHOP:
Structuring and Organizing a Project
Participants apply project management tools
in organizing. structuring and developing
performance baselines for
their actual projects. They evaluate
the strengths and weaknesses
of their approaches based on the
information learned in the course.
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2 |
Implementing
and Controlling Project Plans
- Resource
planning and control.
- Budgeting,
the project baseline, control.
- The
project execution plan.
- Monitoring
and measuring your project progress.
Project
Communications
- Techniques,
strategies and human factors to improve communications.
- How
to conduct effective project meetings.
- How
to use project agendas, action items and minutes.
- Design
of control and management
reports.
WORKSHOP:
Team and Client Communications
Participants
will take the
role of
project manager
of a typical
project and
are asked to
reach
a
consensus
about
how specific
situations
should be handled.
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3 |
Problem
Solving Style
- The
effect of creativity, teamwork and communications
on your problem solving style and on project performance.
- Building
on your strengths and the strengths of others for
enhanced project success.
WORKSHOP:
Project Situation
Participants, grouped in their teams, recognize and
work with the various problem solving styles of
others, in
the process of managing a challenging project
situation.
PARTICIPATION: Assessment Inventory of Project Management
Participants use this tool to evaluate their project management
practices.
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today for Project Management for Administrators.
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