Project Planning Practices
Course Description
In today’s fast-paced and evolving environment, effective project management and stakeholder engagement are critical for success. This half-day custom course provides a comprehensive introduction to essential project planning frameworks, best practices, and templates. Combining lecture content with interactive activities, participants will not only learn the basics of project management best practices but will also have the chance to actively reflect on how these tools, templates, and frameworks can be applied to enhance the effectiveness of their own workflow and projects.
Format
This is a half-day custom course that can be offered via Zoom or in-person. The course consists of a mix of lecture content and interactive activities to reflect on and apply core concepts.
Learning Objectives:
- Planning framework and best practices: Gain an understanding of project planning frameworks, best practices, and templates that can be applied to support successful project management
- Stakeholder engagement: Gain an understanding of, and reflect on stakeholder engagement practices to ensure success throughout the project lifecycle
- Integrating planning practices: Reflect on integrating project planning best practices into your team workflows and projects
Who it's for
This class can benefit people in many roles, including but not limited to:
- Any departments, teams, or individuals interested in learning how to apply project management best practices to improve the effectiveness of their project planning, implementation, and stakeholder management.
Topics covered
- The phases of project planning
- Project planning best practices
- Project planning templates: Project approach, project plan, timeline, stakeholder list, status reports, Risk, assumptions, issues, decision (RAID) logs, project meeting notes, project retrospective
- Best practices for stakeholder engagement
- Reflecting on ways to integrate project planning practices into your team’s workflow
Pre-requisites
None
How to sign up
This course is scheduled on request for your team.
Click the Contact us button to discuss how this training might be a good fit for your team. We accept PTA or pooled STAP funds for team trainings. We can tailor this training to best support your team’s goals.