Project Management For Administrative Professionals

Most administrative professionals run projects every day, even without the project manager title. This 90-minute project management webinar for administrative professionals gives you the basics to handle projects of any size or complexity with less stress.

You'll follow a simple step-by-step process and see how to use practical documents such as scope statements, communication plans, risk management plans, risk registers and change management plans. The session also covers building a business case, planning with your team, the five stages of team development and running productive team meetings.

You'll also look at common project challenges and how to keep work moving, plus how to socialize an initiative, manage stakeholders and get the decisions and support you need to reach your goals.

• Write and scale a project scope statement
• Build a business case for a project you want to take on
• Identify stakeholders and socialize initiatives to win their buy-in
• Develop a project plan, work breakdown structure and activity list
• Use communication plans, risk registers and change management plans
• Report on project status and drive decisions from your team and stakeholders
• Recognize the five stages of team development and run effective team meetings

• Project scope statements and how to scale them
• 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

If you want more of your projects finished on time and on budget, or you need to manage other people's expectations, this session gives you a clear, practical method to follow. It helps when team members are unsure how to run a project, and when you are too.

It suits administrative professionals and anyone who is handed projects as part of their role and wants tools to plan the work, handle risks and changes, and keep stakeholders committed.

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Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm that focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include organizations such as Microsoft, Visa International, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sprint, American Counseling Association, Aviva Insurance, U.S. Patent, and Trademark Office, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Hospital Corporation of America, Schlumberger, Morgan Stanley, Boston Scientific, US HealthCare and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries.

He has published numerous articles in the fields of project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity, and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance in Practice to Customer Service Management. His McGraw-Hill book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team,” is replete with hands-on tools, templates, and checklists which managers use effectively to improve performance.