Project Management for Learning Professionals Certificate:  Reduce the Rework

A Series of 4 Online Sessions. There are no additional 2022 course dates scheduled at this time. 

 

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Certificate Overview

If you leave your desk everyday frustrated by what you've accomplished and what's left to be done, this is the certificate you've been waiting for! Learn how to juggle your projects and get more done with less rework. Whether working on online or live course development, LMS implementation, or new process design, this certificate will teach you a simple, minimal process with techniques to get more done with less help. You'll learn how to start a project correctly, build a simple and flexible project schedule, manage the insanity of your projects, end a project, and improve your own project management strength through quick post-project reviews. This course will provide you with tools that will work with software you already have, completely consistent with the guidelines set by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Bring your gnarliest project with you. This certificate will be hands-on, and you will learn each technique by using it for your project. You will work on one of your own real projects, and create a Project Charter and Project Schedule with feedback from peers in the course. You will complete this certificate with your project ready to roll, a great network, and a job aid to use for the next successful project.

Bonus Items:
You will also receive a quick technique job aid to help you remember what you've learned and show others how to get better at project management back at the office. 

 

Course Details:

In this four-part live online certificate, you will learn and apply to real work the practical skills and techniques you need to successfully define, plan, manage and review multiple projects with diverse stakeholders. This certificate provides simple, visual approaches for project budget, schedule and quality success. You'll complete the course with one of your real projects polished and ready to begin!

Who Should Attend:
This certificate course is for anyone interested in doing more with less. As workload increases and technology chases us 24/7, this course will help you organize your work, manage the hand-offs with others and leave work feeling less overwhelmed. If you leave your desk everyday frustrated by what you've accomplished and what's left to be done, this is the content you've been waiting for.

Course Objectives

In this certificate you will learn to:

• Differentiate between a process, project and task.
• Clarify the responsibilities of a Project Sponsor, Project Manager and Project Stakeholders.
• Create a Project Charter in less than 45 minutes including tools that clarify ROI, scope, metrics, risk mitigation, constraints, communication planning and project governance.
• Create a Project Schedule by working back from a fixed date.
• Regulate your own stress as the project progresses so you make the best decisions as the insanity kicks in.
• Influence and communicate with diverse Stakeholders and follow the rule "Bad News Early is Good News".
• Practice flexible structure: at all times have a plan AND be ready to adapt it to ensure success.
• End a project even when the Stakeholders are adding new things.
• Use emotion-based Post-Project Review techniques to grow project management competence in your self and others.

Sessions

• Frustrated? Why?
• What is a process, project and task?
• Clarifying the roles of the Project Sponsor, Project Manager and Stakeholders
• Establishing the business ROI for a project
• Creating a Scope Diagram

• The nuances and power of the Scope Diagram
• Building project metrics
• Mitigating risk
• Establishing the constraints
• Building a communication and governance plan.

• Establishing the milestones
• Creating the Project Schedule
• EQ and Decision Making
• Influencing Stakeholders to Consensus

• Monitoring and using the Project Schedule
• If you are out of time and money, now what?
• Ending Well
• Post-Project Review options
• Graduation
   

Instructor

Lesley MacKellar 

 

Course Dates

• 9:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific Time (PT)
• 10:00 am - 11:30 am Mountain Time (MT)
• 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Central Time (CT)
• 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm Eastern Time (ET)

For times in other cities, visit this link. All sessions are recorded. In order to earn your Certificate of Completion, you must log in for and participate in each live course and successfully complete any homework assignments by specified deadlines. Recordings of sessions are intended for review purposes only.


 

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