Project Management For Administrative Professionals

Let's face it - we are all managing projects every day!

They may be simple or more complex, but undoubtedly you are managing projects within your role.

You don't need to be a project manager to learn how to manage your projects effectively and efficiently. This interactive presentation will provide the basics of managing projects - regardless of their size or complexity. Webinar attendees will be provided a variety of tools, techniques, and best practices to enable them to manage the projects they are assigned and the projects they want to undertake, including how to socialize initiatives to get buy-in from others.

This webinar will provide a simple step-by-step process for managing your projects. Attendees will learn how to use a variety of documents - scope statements, communication plans, risk management plans, risk registers, and change management plans - in order to better manage their initiatives. Additionally, the importance of socializing initiatives as well as managing stakeholders to ensure commitment to initiatives and support needed to achieve goals will be discussed.

Challenges in managing projects will be covered as well as how to best address those challenges to keep your project moving forward. Other topics covered in this webinar to enable increased effectiveness in managing projects and meeting project goals include: developing the project business case, effective project planning with the team, five stages of team development, driving decision-making from stakeholders, and facilitating effective team meetings.

Leave this webinar with a better understanding of how project management can assist you in performing your role in your organization.

• Project Scope Statements
• Developing the business case for your own projects
• Identifying and managing stakeholders
• Developing your Project Plan
• Itemizing your Work Breakdown Structure and activity list
• Enhancing your Communications Plan
• Identifying, planning, and managing project risks
• Managing changes to the project
• Reporting on the status
• Driving decisions from the team and from key stakeholders

• Scale Project Scope Statements
• Develop the business case for your own projects
• Identifying and managing stakeholders
• Develop your Project Plan
• Itemize your Work Breakdown Structure and activity list
• Enhance your Communications Plan
• Identify, plan and manage project risks
• Manage changes to the project
• Report on status
• Drive decisions from the team and from key stakeholders

• CEO
• Senior Vice President
• Vice President
• Executive Director
• Managing Director
• Regional Vice President
• Area Supervisor
• Manager

Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm that focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include organizations such as Microsoft, Visa International, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sprint, American Counseling Association, Aviva Insurance, U.S. Patent, and Trademark Office, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Hospital Corporation of America, Schlumberger, Morgan Stanley, Boston Scientific, US HealthCare and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries.

He has published numerous articles in the fields of project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity, and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance in Practice to Customer Service Management. His McGraw-Hill book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team,” is replete with hands-on tools, templates, and checklists which managers use effectively to improve performance.