Project Management Skills For Admin Professional Soft Skills Training Vancouver

Project Management Skills For Admin Professional

This workshop has two founding principles: one, it focuses on the skills and project management concepts that administrators need to support or lead projects, and two, the key skills are interpersonal and non-digital. Participants learn in a stimulating and enjoyable environment.

Duration: 2 Days

Course Objectives

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Define what a project is and is not
Use project management terms in a professional manner
Follow the five classic steps of managing a project
Develop a working plan (Project Charter) for a specific project
Take on increasingly complex projects with confidence
Bring projects in on time, on budget, meeting expectations
Plan for the unexpected; manage risks; add value
Work collaboratively with project teams to build better projects
Manage and contribute to team meetings
Track projects to identify variances and resolve them
Take on increasingly complex projects with confidence
Bring projects in on time, on budget, meeting expectations

Outline

Part 1: What is project management?
- Defining project management: features of a project and its process
- Some useful project management terms
- Who are the players and what is the role of the project manager

Part 2: The Five Stages of Project Management
- Initiating: The vision and conceptualizing stage
- Defining: Establishing scope, goals, estimating time, costs and critical path
- Planning: Detailed deliverables, plans and final estimates, Charter; team
- Executing: Efficiently carrying out and tracking the project according to plan
- Closing: Evaluation; presenting a final report; lessons learned; sign-offs

Part 3: Useful Project Management Tools and Documentation Techniques
- Planning and tracking tools
- Reporting Tools

Part 4: The Project Team
- The Admin's role in the project team
- Building a trained, motivated, high-functioning project team
- Communication skills for setting goals, boundaries and resolving conflict
- Decision-making as a team
- Conducting productive team meetings
- When to prioritize problem-solving

Part 5: Basics of Budgeting a Project

Part 6: Course Evaluation, Personal Action Plan, Closure

With our extensive knowledge of the different software currently on the market, including all Microsoft and Adobe applications, ON-TRACK Corporate Training has a diverse and flexible schedule that can be customized to your needs. We offer group courses (both public and corporate), one-on-one training, virtual (on-line) classroom (Zoom etc.) and on-site training options. We also have easily accessible on-line training videos on OnTrackTV.