HR Training 2020 - Project Management Essentials: Planning, Executing, Completing!

Overview:
Let's face it - we are all managing projects every day! They may be simple or more complex, but undoubtedly you are managing projects within your role.
You don't need to be a project manager to learn how to manage your projects effectively and efficiently. This interactive presentation will provide the basics of managing projects - regardless of their size or complexity.
Webinar attendees will be provided a variety of tools, techniques and best practices to enable them to more effectively manage the projects they are assigned and the projects they want to undertake, including how to socialize initiatives to get buy-in from others.
This webinar will provide a simple step-by-step process for managing your projects. Attendees will learn how to use a variety of documents - scope statements, communication plans, risk management plans, risk registers and change management plans - in order to better manage their initiatives. Additionally, the importance of socializing initiatives as well as managing stakeholders to ensure commitment to initiatives and support needed to achieve goals will be discussed.
Challenges in managing projects will be covered as well as how to best address those challenges to keep your project moving forward. Other topics covered in this webinar to enable for increased effectiveness in managing projects and meeting project goals include: developing the project business case, effective project planning with the team, five stages of team development, driving decision making from stakeholders and facilitating effective team meetings.
Leave this webinar with a better understanding of how project management can assist you in performing your role in your organization.
Why you should Attend:
Scale Project Scope Statements
Develop the business case for your own project
Identifying and managing stakeholders
Develop your Project Plan
Itemize your Work Breakdown Structure and activity list
Enhance your Communications Plan
Identify, plan and manage project risks
Manage changes to the project
Report on status
Drive decisions from the team and from key stakeholders
Would you like to get more (or all!) of the projects you manage in on time and on budget? Are you concerned about people on your project teams not knowing enough about how to effectively manage a project? What about yourself? Would you like some help to more effectively manage your projects? Would you like to more effectively manage others’ expectations? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you should join us!
Areas Covered in the Session:
Project Scope Statements
Developing the business case for your own projects
Identifying and managing stakeholders
Developing your Project Plan
Itemizing your Work Breakdown Structure and activity list
Enhancing your Communications Plan
Identifying, planning and managing project risks
Managing changes to the project
Reporting on status
Driving decisions from the team and from key stakeholders
Who Will Benefit:
CEO
Senior Vice President
Vice President
Executive Director
Managing Director
Regional Vice President
Area Supervisor
Manager
Instructor:
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.