| COURSE DESCRIPTION: We've all experienced it: One day it hits us that the activities we oversee have become so complex that ad-hoc planning no longer cuts it. Communications break down. You miss deadlines. You blow through the budget. Higher-ups start questioning the competence of you and your team.
It’s time to get serious about planning. And that means Project Management. If you’ve never done formal Project Management, this program will show you what it’s about and how to get started. If you’ve dabbled in PM but aren't sure you really "get" it, this program will show you how to do it RIGHT and realize its full potential.
End result: Using the skills acquired in this program, you and your team will pull off the next project you oversee with an efficiency you never thought possible.
After this conference, participants will be able to:
- Avoid making the #1 mistake that derails most projects
- Define project deliverables in "high resolution" using specific details
- Define a project’s “work process” (activities, phases, overall project life cycle)
- Assign roles & responsibilities to ensure ownership of tasks, streamline collaboration, and avoid duplication of effort
- Match authority to responsibility to maximize chances for individual and team success
- Get all the right people involved
- Create, document, and get support for the plan from all your key decision-makers
- Work the plan and make adjustments as needed to minimize delay and expense
- Get sign-offs and approvals to keep things moving towards completion
- Close out the project, archive it, and extract lessons to apply to your next project.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Michael Greer has taught project management for more than two decades. His step-by-step PM texts have been adopted by many universities and businesses such as Anadarko Petroleum, AT&T, Apple Computer, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, The American Red Cross, Xerox, The Southern Company, Apria Healthcare, and many, many others. In addition to his books The Project Manager's Partner (HRD Press, 1996, 2001) and ID Project Management (Educational Technology Publications, 1992), Greer has published more than a dozen articles related to PM and has contributed Chapter 6: Planning and Managing Human Performance Technology Projects in the Handbook of Human Performance Technology (Jossey-Bass, 1999).
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund your full fee if you’re not satisfied. It's risk-free.
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