Project & Task Management
- The Art of Managing Multiple Projects and Multitasking
- Event Planning: How to Plan a Top-Notch Event
- Wearing Too Many Hats? How to Manage Your Multiple Roles and Responsibilities (custom only)
- Project Management Fundamentals: Creating Your Roadmap for Success!
- Lean Thinking: 9 Steps to Organizational Effectiveness
- Keeping Your Ducks in Line While Floating in a Pond of Tasks
The Art of Managing Multiple Projects and Multitasking
Learn the fundamentals of organizing projects from initiation to completion while balancing the demands of time, scope, and tasks of ongoing responsibilities.
You will learn to:
- Organize a complex project into measurable units of activity
- Establish priorities for each responsibility or project
- Utilize a variety of multitasking strategies
- Identify shortcuts to complete projects more efficiently
- Use techniques to achieve realistic schedules for keeping track of multiple projects
- Determine ways to motivate others to assist you in accomplishing projects
- Describe the goals and schedule of a project so others involved will meet deadlines
You will benefit by:
- Managing “loose ends” more successfully
- Feeling less chaotic and “in control” of workloads
- Becoming less stressed and overwhelmed by work demands
- Feeling a sense of accomplishment following the completion of complex projects
Audience:
Anyone whose job includes managing multiple priorities and balancing responsibilities
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| Cost: $129 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Jacqueline Doneghy Competencies: BI CO DO LA QS |
Dates & Times: Wed. 9/16/09, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Code: PTM950 |
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| Dates & Times: Wed. 7/7/10, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Code: PTM002 |
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Event Planning: How to Plan a Top-Notch Event
Worried about all the details? This fun and interactive workshop takes the worry out of planning a spectacular event.
You will learn to:
- Define the event scope and select a strategy to ensure the success of the event
- Develop S.M.A.R.T. objectives and a realistic timeline
- Know what to do when the planning falls behind
- Keep on track with what needs to be done and who’s responsible for which tasks
- Work effectively with facility staff
You will benefit by:
- Assessing your event planning preference style
- Increasing your ability to understand the working styles of others
- Understanding the life cycle of an event
- Knowing how to deal with unexpected occurrences
- Feeling confident about planning an event
Audience:
Staff and faculty who are involved in organizing an event
Program Note:
This course uses a hands-on approach to delivering the material. In between the class sessions, participants will draft an event plan of their own design.
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Cost: $229 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 11/6/09, |
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Wearing Too Many Hats? How to Manage Your Multiple Roles and Responsibilities (custom only)
Reporting to multiple supervisors, faculty or staff can be overwhelming. As you try to meet each person’s expectations and deadlines you may find yourself doing the job of more than one person and “wearing too many hats”. If this describes your experience on the job, this class was designed for you.
Audience:
All staff that find themselves “wearing too many hats” and who want to manage their multiple roles more effectively
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Cost: See custom training rate policy |
Dates & Times: This course is available as a custom training event for your department. |
Project Management Fundamentals: Creating Your Roadmap for Success!
You already manage projects in your personal and professional life. Go beyond just getting it done to getting it done well by producing high quality outcomes that exceed customer expectations with less stress.
You will learn to:
- Define a project and its life cycle
- Recognize the various roles needed to successfully carry out a project plan
- Write a project plan that includes action steps and a work breakdown structure
- Construct a network diagram and its sequence to schedule and finalize a project plan
- Troubleshoot a project plan for potential contingencies
- Develop metrics to assess and evaluate a project’s success
- Identify techniques to successfully communicate project needs to stakeholders
- Determine how to appropriately respond to project challenges that address time, quality, and cost
- Use various tools and templates for managing a project
You will benefit by:
- Developing a more comprehensive project plan that includes the input of all stakeholders.
- Implementing the project with less stress and angst
- Completing projects on time and within budget
- Learning some of the technical terminology and most commonly used tools
- Applying time-honored techniques used by professional project managers.
Audience:
Anyone with project management responsibilities who wants to be more proactive in their project planning
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Cost: $479 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 1/21/10, |
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Lean Thinking: 9 Steps to Organizational Effectiveness
Few words have generated more interest recently than “Lean.” In this course, you will learn how to chart your course for improvement and make extraordinary gains in
the performance of your organization through the application of proven practical techniques and tools.
You will learn to:
- Apply the 9 step Lean framework to optimize your processes
- Use mapping to examine your current processes and decide how they can be improved
- Lead a team to create a vision for the ideal state of your processes
- Write an action plan to close the gap between the current and ideal states of your processes
- Implement an action plan to apply this powerful method in your organization
You will benefit by:
- Learning how lean process improvement goes beyond just mapping processes
- Gaining the ability to prioritize your efforts to get the “biggest bang for the buck”
- Having the tools and knowledge you need to implement lean process improvement
Audience:
Anyone wanting to improve the performance of their organization
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Cost: $579 |
Dates & Times: (CANCELLED)
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Keeping Your Ducks in Line While Floating in a Pond of Tasks
With so many tasks at hand, it is easy to let your work get the better of you. It is especially difficult if you must collaborate without authority. Even though you may feel overwhelmed, by utilizing basic project and workload management techniques you will discover the keys to success.
You will learn to:
- Create objectives for your daily work so you can measure progress and success
- Identify ways of motivating people who don’t report to you to complete their tasks
- Build your personal network of experts with whom you can collaborate
- Develop your ability to navigate responsibility without authority
You will benefit by:
- Remaining organized while not drowning in the details of project management
- Freeing up administrative time so you can better solve problems that arise
- Lowering your frustration level when you work alone or with others
Audience:
Anyone needing to increase efficiency in their day-to-day work
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Cost: $129 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 4/22/10, |
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