Project Management for Non-Project Managers

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 - 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 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 SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

By attending, you will understand how to do even more effectively:

• Scale Project Scope Statements
• Develop the business case for your projects
• 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 key stakeholders

Q. Would you like to get more (or all!) of the projects you manage on time and budget?
Q. Would you like some help to manage your projects more?
Q. Would you like to more effectively manage others’ expectations?
Q. Are you concerned about people on your project teams not knowing enough about how to effectively manage a project?  What about yourself?

If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, you should join us!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Managing projects can be a big headache sometimes; well, our Webinar is the perfect prescription!  Our Webinar will provide the best practices for managing projects – you will receive tools, techniques, and best practices to enable you to more effectively manage the projects you are assigned successfully – on time and on budget.

We will facilitate a better understanding of process and project documents – including scope statements, communication plans, risk management plans, risk registers, and change management plans - to better manage your initiatives. We’ll also discuss approaches to better identifying and engaging stakeholders.

We also will review consistent Key Project Challenges and Best Practices to Solve Those Challenges. We will address meeting project goals, 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. 

You will take away a better understanding of how project management can assist you in performing your role in your organization.

AREAS COVERED

• 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 key stakeholders

TOPIC BACKGROUND

Great managers are experts at getting bottom-line results but often do not understand their role in the success or failure of their organization’s projects. They balk at the arcane terminology and are unaware of how to use valuable project management techniques and tools—a knowledge gap that can be a serious career barrier!

Functional managers with even basic project management (PM) knowledge are the best people for keeping projects business-focused. This webinar demystifies the jargon and processes, encouraging managers to jump into the PM arena and arming them with strategies for increasing the business value created by their company’s projects.