Online Webinar 2019 - Live Webinar: Advanced Project Management tips & best practices for HR

Session Highlights
Build on Your Fundamental Knowledge
What Are Your Strengths and Challenges Managing Projects as a Non-Project Manager Now?
What is a Project?
Where do PM Standards Come From?
How Does Something Become a Best Practice?
Project Life Cycle
Hone Organizational Skills
Skills to Lead Project Successfully
Skills to Manage Project Successfully
Managing Time Proactively
Communicate Even More Effectively
What is Your Most Effective Communication Zone?
Using Active Assertive Communication
Mastering Active Listening
Managing Project Communication Through RACI
Meeting Challenges with Stakeholders, Dispersed Teams, and Virtual Teams
Avoid Major Project Pitfalls
Common Pitfalls and Their Remedies
Analyzing Risk
Establishing an Early Warning System
Escalating Risk Proactively
Expecting the Unexpected
Meet Project Objectives
Establishing and Clarifying Concrete Objectives
Developing More Detailed Plans to Reach Objectives
Bring in Projects on Time, on Budget, and on Target
Executing Detailed Project Plans
Managing Exceptions and Deviations from Plans
What Management Wants to Hear in Your Reports
Continuous Improvement as a Way of Life
Implementing Lessons Learned Throughout Project
Going Beyond Lessons Learned
Keeping Project Data; Key Measurements
Overview
Refine your organizational skills to keep your projects on time, on budget, and on target. You've learned the basic techniques of project management. You've mastered the planning, executing, reviewing, and revising skills making the difference between success and absolute failure. You are good at getting the different players and stakeholders to provide information or direction and to show up for important milestones along the way. Now you're ready to hone your organizational skills, communicate even more effectively, avoid major project pitfalls, and work well with others to meet project deadlines and objectives. Build on your fundamental knowledge and expand your capacity to balance day-to-day work and these special PM assignments.
Why Should you Attend
Once you have begun using the basic project management skills and tools, you should be getting better results. However, these basics are not enough for continued success. You must now continually improve your existing skills in project management, communication, understanding human nature, and working across organizational lines. You will have new challenges the more you lead successful projects. You will need to take a deeper dive into current project management standards and learn to use more sophisticated tools. All of this can be overwhelming on top of your many responsibilities and priorities. You will develop a plan to integrate new skills and tools systematically and use references for your own continuous improvement.
Who Will Benefit
HR professionals who have taken a basic project management course
Experienced HR Project Managers
HR professionals
HR managers
HR personnel charged with improving project management
key learning objectives of the Topic
Learning Objectives: As a result of this webinar, you will be able to:
Build on your fundamental project management knowledge
Hone organizational skills
Communicate even more effectively
Avoid major project pitfalls
Meet project objectives
Bring in projects on time, on budget, & on target
Speaker:
Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Ph.D. and president of Advantage Leadership, Inc., has managed a wide variety of projects from starting an alternative high school to developing artificial organs to managing Section 8 public housing. She understands the pain of juggling too many tasks, relying on others for information with no authority to manage them, and struggling to keep too many powerful stakeholders from spoiling the project. She has developed project management programs for her clients around the world. She developed project management programs specifically for Human Resource professionals for training companies, webinar providers, conferences, and clients. She works with a variety of organizations to improve strategic leadership and planning, engage employees, and delight customers. Rebecca is the author of several books on strategic leadership and has been honored for her contributions on four continents.