Project and Task Management
- The Art of Managing Multiple Projects and Multitasking
- Event Planning: How To Plan a Top-Notch Event
- Project Management Fundamentals: Creating Your Roadmap for Success!
- Wearing Too Many Hats? How to Manage Your Multiple Roles and Responsibilities
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 priorities for each responsibility or project
- Utilize a variety of multitasking strategies
- 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
Schedule Selection(s) |
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Cost: $119 |
Dates: Wed. 9/19/07 |
| Dates: Fri. 3/7/08 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Code: PTM802 |
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| Dates: Wed. 7/9/08 Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Code: PTM803 |
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| Cost: $119 Location: North Campus Administrative Complex (NCAC) in Training Room AB Presenter: Jacqueline Doneghy |
Dates: Fri. 12/7/07 Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Code: PTM752 |
Event Planning: How To Plan a Top-Notch Event
Worried about all the details? This fun and interactive workshop takes the worry out of planning a spectacular event.
You will learn to:
- 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
- Know what to do when the planning falls behind
- Keep on track with what needs to be done and who’s responsible for which tasks
- Work effectively with facility staff
You will benefit by:
- Assessing your event planning preference style
- Increasing your ability to understand the working styles of others
- Understanding the life cycle of an event
- Knowing how to deal with unexpected occurrences
- Feeling confident about planning an event
Audience:
Staff and faculty who are involved in organizing an event
Program Note:
This course uses a hands-on approach to delivering the material. In between the class sessions, participants will draft an event plan of their own design.
Schedule Selection(s) - 1 ½ Day Course |
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Cost: $209 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 11/2/07, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. & Fri. 11/9/07 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (1 ½ day course) |
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 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 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
Attention:
This program is not intended for those who specialize in or have received formal training in project management
Program Note:
This course uses a hands-on approach to delivering the material. In between the class sessions, participants will draft a project plan of their own design.
Schedule Selection(s) - 1 ½ Day Course |
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Cost: $479 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 1/17/08, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & 1/31/08, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. (1 ½ day course) |
| Dates & Times: Thu. 6/5/08, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & 6/19/08, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. (1 ½ day course) Code: PTM801 |
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Wearing Too Many Hats? How to Manage Your Multiple Roles and Responsibilities
Reporting to multiple supervisors, faculty or staff can be overwhelming. As you try to meet each person’s expectations and deadlines you may find yourself doing the job of more than one person and “wearing too many hats.” If this describes your experience on the job, this class was designed for you.
You will learn to:
- Analyze your multiple roles and identify their relevance to your professional and personal life
- Recognize how you typically react to stressful situations
- Identify tips to manage stress more effectively
- Prioritize activities based upon importance, rather than urgency
- Evaluate the “big picture” so you can handle each task more effectively
- Involve team members in planning and carrying out their roles in the “big picture” with greater investment and support
You will benefit by:
- Improving your handling of multiple and sometimes conflicting assignments
- Reducing stress and “burn out”
- Increasing staff members’ cooperation and support
Audience:
All staff that find themselves “wearing too many hats” and who want to manage their multiple roles more effectively
Schedule Selection(s) |
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Cost: $129 |
Dates: Tue. 3/18/08 |
