Courses

Applying an Equity Lens to Project Management: An Implementation Roadmap

This highly interactive workshop is a deep dive into how to apply a racial equity lens to Project Management decision-making processes.

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Cost Management: Budget, Control, and Reporting

How to estimate the labor and non-labor costs throughout the project lifecycle and share progress through visuals.

Friday, August 27, 2021, Zoom

Designing and Leading Change

Designing change that matters and accelerating its integration into a new way of doing business is the centerpiece of this workshop. You'll discover the three phases of transition, the 6Ps of new beginnings, the three questions to ask of any change initiative, effective change communication strategies, and a variety of smart ways to design change with intentionality and care.

October 15-29, 2021, Zoom

Foundations of Project Management

This Foundations course provides a comprehensive overview toward successful project implementations - using the traditional "waterfall" methodology. The five-week course is highly interactive and energetic and will include a combination of lecture, Q&A, group exercises, and tests to evaluate knowledge transfer. Key tenets of good project management practice is excellent communication, empowering leadership, strong people skills, a firm and consistent management style, combined with experience and wisdom.

September 29, 2021 to November 17, 2021, Zoom + Canvas
October 1-29, 2021, The Hub - Room 120

Getting the Right People on the Bus: Effective Hiring Practices

This half-day workshop provides participants with a repeatable process and practical tools to make their hiring and onboarding practices more reliably effective. We'll cover all nine steps of the hiring process (analyzing the position through making the job offer), as well as a straightforward onboarding process that will support newly-hired employees in becoming full contributors in record time.

Friday, August 20, 2021, Zoom

Project Management

This 10-week Project Management course provides a comprehensive overview toward successful project implementations.

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Scope Management: Change Control Toward Success

Keep the project within agreed guardrails and document approved changes when required.

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Stakeholder Analysis: Identification and Engagement

Key stakeholders can make or break your project. Create champions out of key stakeholders, keep them engaged, and help them with timely decision-making.

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Supervisor Skills: Time Management for Managers

This workshop focuses on tools to manager others and their work, while feeling more productive and less stressed. Participants will evaluate how their time is currently spent and learn techniques to prioritize and increase mental focus. Participants also learn how to use time-saving methods and tools to spend time wisely.

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Webinar: 5S for Project Success

5S is a system for organizing physical and digital spaces that incorporates visual management, status at-a-glance, and standard work principles. While 5S is a foundation of a Lean management system, it has a wide range of applications in other work settings. In this one-hour webinar, participants will gain a firm understanding of 5S through examples, videos, and application, as well as what the 6th S is and how it applies to any industry.

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Webinar: A Practical Approach to Training

HR professionals, small business owners, team members, and many other professionals need to develop and deliver trainings. This two-hour webinar focuses on instructional strategies anyone can use to enhance adult learning and effectively deliver training programs that impact performance as well as contribute to organizational goals.

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Webinar: Critical to Quality (CTQ) Trees

Critical to Quality (CTQ) trees are a simple but effective tool for translating customer feedback/needs into specific, actionable, measurable performance requirements. While it is used most often in Lean Six Sigma, CTQ trees are useful in a variety of situations: developing a new product, launching a project, becoming more competitive in your market, etc. This one-hour webinar covers the basics of uncovering your customer's CTQs and creating a basic CTQ tree.

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Webinar: Introduction to Applying an Equity Lens in Project Management

This webinar will introduce a framework for how organizations can apply a racial equity lens to their Project Management decision-making processes.

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