Advanced Project Management tips & best practices for HR
Learn to lead and manage HR projects with stronger organization, communication, risk planning and reporting, so they finish on time, on budget and on target.
Speaker
Rebecca Staton-Reinstein
Leadership consultant and author · Advantage Leadership, Inc. · Ph.D., organizational development
Overview
You know the basics of planning, executing and revising projects. This 90-minute advanced project management training for HR helps you build on them to keep projects on time, on budget and on target while balancing your daily work.
You'll revisit where PM standards and best practices come from and the project life cycle, then sharpen skills to lead and manage projects and use time proactively. The session covers assertive communication, active listening, RACI, and working with stakeholders and dispersed or virtual teams.
You'll also analyze and escalate risk, set an early warning system, build detailed plans, manage deviations, report what management wants and apply lessons learned.
Why attend: The basics are not enough for continued success. As you lead more projects you will face new challenges and need deeper knowledge of current standards and more sophisticated tools, which can feel overwhelming on top of other priorities. You'll build a plan to add new skills and tools step by step. This program is for HR professionals, managers and project managers who have already completed a basic project management course.
What’s covered
- Your current strengths and challenges in managing projects
- What a project is
- Where PM standards come from and how something becomes a best practice
- The project life cycle
- Skills to lead a project successfully
- Skills to manage a project successfully
- Managing time proactively
- Finding your most effective communication zone
- Active assertive communication and active listening
- Managing project communication through RACI
- Challenges with stakeholders, dispersed teams and virtual teams
- Common pitfalls and their remedies
- Analyzing risk and setting up an early warning system
- Escalating risk proactively and expecting the unexpected
- Setting and clarifying concrete objectives
- Developing more detailed plans to reach them
- Executing detailed project plans
- Managing exceptions and deviations
- What management wants to hear in your reports
- Applying lessons learned throughout the project and going beyond them
- Keeping project data and key measurements
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Ph.D., and President of Advantage Leadership, Inc. works with leaders and their organizations to Increase your bottom-line results through strategic leadership, engaged employees, and delighted customers in all economic sectors. Draw on her proven ability to mentor you through major change, customizing successful solutions to your complex issues. For over 25 years, Rebecca has contributed value as an executive, manager, educator, and consultant, honored on four continents. She is a Ph.D. in organizational development, a National Speakers Association Legacy Professional Member, and St. Petersburg Engineering Academy Foreign Member and author of books on strategic leadership and planning.
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