Project Management for Administrative Professionals

Executive assistants, office administrators, administrative assistants, coordinators, and other administrative staff.

• Make sound decisions about how and where to direct your time and energy
• Take better control by differentiating project tasks from daily ongoing tasks
• Build skills in planning, prioritizing, monitoring, controlling and evaluating projects and timelines
• Apply project management and communication processes for supporting multiple people and projects in a team setting
• Overcome common project challenges and avoid getting overwhelmed
• Manage project workloads more efficiently, and lead projects for maximum results

• Project management terminology
• Creating a project kick-off document that captures the goals, completion criteria an all of the work to be done
• Identifying and communicating with project stakeholders
• Using a work breakdown structure to better plan tasks and check points
• Applying project templates to develop communication, risk and task management plans 
• Generating a realistic project schedule
• Tools for tracking and controlling projects
• Responding proactively to project risks and changes
• Improving your team leadership skills in a project environment
• Practical solutions to common project challenges
• Closing out project activities successfully

Special features

You will work on a variety of project scenarios, applying what you are learning to real-world situations. You will leave with a reference guide and templates to support ongoing learning back at work.

For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .