This course demonstrates proven methodologies and techniques for successfully managing concurrent projects. In this certificate program, you will learn how to navigate complexity, eliminate bureaucracy, avoid over-committing, and set expectations in different role and scope situations. With a focus on communicating with multiple supervisors and stakeholders of differing priorities, you will gain confidence in your competency as a resourceful and communicative leader in any type of function or role.
This course demonstrates proven methodologies and techniques for successfully managing concurrent projects. In this certificate program, you will learn how to navigate complexity, eliminate bureaucracy, avoid over-committing, and set expectations in different role and scope situations. With a focus on communicating with multiple supervisors and stakeholders of differing priorities, you will gain confidence in your competency as a resourceful and communicative leader in any type of function or role.
Program Experience
Managing multiple projects requires an understanding of priorities, planning, strategy and executing tactics. This certificate program demonstrates how to do that while empowering your team members and optimizing your time and resources to achieve your project goals. Understand the principles of quality control, gauging progress and outcomes of the tasks you assign and delicately balancing these actions while delegating with responsibility and authority.
With solid principles and guidelines, such as managing and communicating expectations clearly, adjusting project schedules to aximize team productivity and prioritizing the work to produce impactful results, you will learn to track all of your program's moving pieces, enhance your organizational capabilities and reach your deadlines every time.
Predictability & Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Projects can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.
Benefits
You will learn to:
Establish priorities among multiple projects (even working with multiple supervisors!)
Delegate appropriately while maintaining control and ensuring you stay on plan
Track multiple projects with minimal effort, focusing on critical actions
Communicate status and gain needed resources
Eliminate bureaucracy and use your time more efficiently
Predictability & Flexibility: Juggling Multiple Projects can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.
Topics
This program covers a wide range of topics meant to build your competency as a communicative and resourceful leader in any type of function or role.
Why Manage Multiple Projects?
Portfolio Management
Planning and Scheduling Multiple Projects
Setting Proper Stakeholder Expectations
Monitor, track, review, and report progress
Identify and initiate required changes to the plan
Engaging Your Team
Identifying Your Own Triggers
Who Should Attend
While there are no prerequisites, participants should have at least five years of experience managing projects.
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