Advanced Project Management tips and best practices for Human Resource Professionals
Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, PhD, and president of Advantage Leadership, Inc. has worked with leaders around the world who want engaged employees to increase bottom-line results and delight customers through collaborative leadership, strategic planning, culture change, and team development. Rebecca has contributed to organizational success as a manager and executive. As a consultant she used her proven ability to mentor leaders through major change, working with them to craft customized, successful solutions to complex issues in all economic sectors. She is the author of several books on strategic planning and leadership, holds a PhD in organizational development, and taught organizational psychology in an MBA program. She has served as president of many civic, business, and nonprofit boards of directors, and has been honored for her work on 4 continents.
This webinar has been approved for 1.50 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org
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Refine your organizational skills to keep your projects on time, on budget, and target. You've learned the basic techniques of project management. You've mastered the planning, executing, reviewing, and revising skills making the difference between success and absolute failure. You are good at getting the different players and stakeholders to provide information or direction and to show up for important milestones along the way. Now you're ready to hone your organizational skills, communicate even more effectively, avoid major project pitfalls, and work well with others to meet project deadlines and objectives. Build on your fundamental knowledge and expand your capacity to balance day-to-day work and these special PM assignments. (You should have completed a basic Project Management course and been a project manager on a few projects.)
Areas Covered
As a result of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Build on your fundamental project management knowledge
- Hone organizational skills
- Communicate even more effectively
- Avoid major project pitfalls
- Meet project objectives
- Bring in projects on time, on budget, and Target
1. Build on Your Fundamental Knowledge
- What Are Your Strengths and Challenges Managing Projects as a Non-Project Manager Now?
- What is a Project?
- Where do PM Standards Come From?
- How Does Something Become a Best Practice?
- Project Life Cycle
2. Hone Organizational Skills
- Skills to Lead Project Successfully
- Skills to Manage Project Successfully
- Managing Time Proactively
3. Communicate Even More Effectively
- What is Your Most Effective Communication Zone?
- Using Active Assertive Communication
- Mastering Active Listening
- Managing Project Communication Through RACI
- Meeting Challenges with Stakeholders, Dispersed Teams, and Virtual Teams
4. Avoid Major Project Pitfalls
- Common Pitfalls and Their Remedies
- Analyzing Risk
- Establishing an Early Warning System
- Escalating Risk Proactively
- Expecting the Unexpected
5. Meet Project Objectives
- Establishing and Clarifying Concrete Objectives
- Developing More Detailed Plans to Reach Objectives
6. Bring in Projects on Time, on Budget, and Target
- Executing Detailed Project Plans
- Managing Exceptions and Deviations from Plans
- What Management Wants to Hear in Your Reports
7. Continuous Improvement as a Way of Life
- Implementing Lessons Learned Throughout Project
- Going Beyond Lessons Learned
- Keeping Project Data; Key Measurements
Who Should Attend
- HR professionals who have taken a basic project management course
- Experienced HR Project Managers
- Managers of HR Professionals who manage projects
- HR professionals charged with improving project management
Why Should You Attend
Once you have begun using the basic project management skills and tools, you should be getting better results. However, these basics are not enough for continued success. You must now continually improve your existing skills in project management, communication, understanding human nature, and working across organizational lines. You will have new challenges the more you lead successful projects. You will need to take a deeper dive into current project management standards and learn to use more sophisticated tools. All of this can be overwhelming on top of your many responsibilities and priorities. You will develop a plan to integrate new skills and tools systematically and use references for your continuous improvement.
Topic Background
This program assumes you have taken a basic project management course and applied the fundamental processes and procedures.
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$200.00
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