FREE ONLINE TRAINING: Project Management

Project Management Training

 Date: Every Tuesday for ten (10) weeks starting January 14, 2025 and ending March 18, 2025
Time:   8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Delivered via Zoom

Do you have a project you want to tackle (construction, updating your website, automating your inventory, moving locations, developing a product or annual event management) and are not sure where to start? Are you heading a committee and want to ensure you meet your mandate with minimal hiccups and frustrations? Do you want your co-workers to have clear lines of communication and work effectively together to meet their targets on a shared initiative? Do you want the skills, knowledge and confidence to make a project as successful as you know it can be?

If you answered Yes to one or more of these questions, Project Management Essentials would be a smart investment of your time. Many business people think Project Management training is only for those working in large companies who head huge projects. Not true! Project Management is an essential skill that every business person could benefit from, understanding and applying within their company every day. This program is designed to provide you with the fundamentals of Project Management with hands-on, practical know-how. In fact, to make your learning as relevant as possible, participants are asked to choose their own project to apply throughout the course.
 

As a participant you will learn how to:

• Determine the scope of your project and set up achievable goals
• Assign the right people for each task of the project and make sure they understand what is expected of them before the project starts
• Create a schedule for the project with key performance targets and estimated times for completion
• Develop a budget so you know what it is going to cost before you start
• Create a plan for communicating with everyone throughout the project so the team never feels they are out of the loop
• Assess the effectiveness of the project at the end so you can continue to apply best practices on future projects
• Identify the pitfalls and challenges from past experience to ensure success with future projects.
 
If this sounds like a smart way to invest 40 hours of your time so you have the knowledge, skills and techniques to help you build an even stronger business, Project Management Essentials is for you!
 

Learning Outcomes (based on standardized content):

• List elements of the project life cycle

• Determine the scope of the project
• Set achievable project goals
• Create a work breakdown structure
• Create project targets and timelines
• Assign resources to project tasks
• Develop a project budget
• Create a project Gantt chart
• Develop a risk assessment
• Create a communication plan
 

Standard Topics:

• What is a project
• Project life cycle
• Project charter
• Work breakdown structure
• Assigning resources
• Project budget
• Gantt chart
• Project risk
• Communication plan
 

Interchangeable Topics:

• Software options
• Stakeholder assessment
• Project monitoring