Project & Task Management
- The Art of Managing Multiple Projects and Multitasking
- Project Management Fundamentals: Creating Your Roadmap for Success!
- Keeping Your Ducks in Line While Floating in a Pond of Tasks
- Smartphone Success: Getting More Productivity (and Fun!) from Your Smartphone and Tablet Devices
- Event Planning on the “C.H.E.A.P.” *: Strategies for Departments
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 top priorities for each responsibility or project
- Utilize a variety of multitasking strategies to increase your productivity
- 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: $139 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Jacqueline Doneghy Competencies: BI CO DO LA QS
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Dates & Times: Wed. 9/14/11, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Code: PTM1203 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 2/10/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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| Dates & Times: Wed. 7/18/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: PTM1205 |
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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 tangible 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 successfully 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: $489 |
Dates & Times: Mon., 1/23, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & 2/6/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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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: $149 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 5/9/12, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Smartphone Success: Getting More Productivity (and Fun!) from Your Smartphone and Tablet Devices
We all know which apps are fun, but do you know which “apps” and functions will help you turn your Android™, iPhone®, BlackBerry® and/or Windows Mobile™ device into a productivity workhorse? In this session, we will discuss the applications and strategies to take your smart device from "cool" to "critical" when it comes to productivity, time, project, people, and e-mail management.
There will be time allotted in the course for program participants to share their favorite “apps,” allowing you to gain knowledge from all program attendees.You will learn to:
- Apply the “critical basics” to realize the full potential of your mobile device
- Integrate your smartphone with other existing productivity software (including Outlook® and Google®) for greater productivity
- Use techniques to successfully manage your e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes
- Use password, log-in, and private information strategies to effectively protect yourself
- Identify which “apps” and tools will best boost your personal productivity
- Select smartphone and tablet peripherals that will extend your productivity beyond the device
You will benefit by:
- Having a discussion about smartphone power management
- Going beyond the basics to discover new and useful “apps” and services that help to organize your life
- Knowing which financial management, travel management and social networking “apps” meet your personal needs
Audience:
Anyone who wants to maximize the potential of their smartphone or tablet
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 4/13/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
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Event Planning on the “C.H.E.A.P.” *: Strategies for Departments
As the challenge to our economy continues, many departments are faced with cutting back the budgets for many of their special events. This workshop gives individuals planning events creative strategies to keep their occasions under budget, without underwhelming the attendees.
You will learn to:
- Recognize and discuss the complete life cycle of an event
- 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 for an event
- Determine what steps to take when the planning falls behind
- Use a three-step process to manage and track tasks, assignments and who is responsible for which tasks
- Identify ways to work effectively with facility staff
You will benefit by:
- Assessing your event planning preference style
- Having a simple process to use when planning an event
- Knowing how to effectively deal with unexpected occurrences
- Feeling confident about planning an event
Audience:
Anyone who is responsible for organizing large or small events
* C.H.E.A.P. stands for: Creative & Handy Essentials for Academic Programs
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 6/7/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
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