This 1 day course is delivered online and is split into 2 half days.
Dates and timings
15-16 October 2024, 1.00-4.30pm GMT
4-5 March 2025, 1.00-4.30pm GMT
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
Do you organise projects or events and keep most of the stuff in your head? When the plan goes well, great! But how can you learn to take on bigger and more complex projects with confidence? You need to use tried and tested techniques and follow a written plan.
This course has six modules to give you a solid foundation to develop your skills. We will cover:
Key modules
Project Management
- 12 Steps for successful projects
- Contingency planning
- Gannt Charts
- Assessing risk
- Monitoring costs
Creative Problem Solving
- Identifying the real problem: 5 Whys, Kepner Tregoe Method, Pareto Analysis
- Generating solutions
- Selecting the best solution
Managing Brilliant Events
- Involving your manager
- Planning before you start
- Venue considerations
- Technical essentials
- Speakers
- Marketing
- Saving money
Pivoting to Virtual Events
- Keeping audiences engaged
- Developing brilliant content
- Production essentials
- Business case for virtual events
Using Microsoft Forms for your projects and events
- Creating a survey
- Adding survey questions
- Enabling file uploads
- Creating a quiz
- Controlling quiz appearance
- Editing questions
- Changing question order
- Sharing forms
- Viewing survey and quiz results
- Analyzing results in Microsoft Forms
Using Microsoft Planner for your projects and events
- Creating a plan
- Adding and assigning tasks
- Sorting tasks into buckets
- Attaching files to tasks
- Flagging tasks with labels
- Updating a task’s status
- Viewing progress on a plan
- Using charts to view progress
Using ChatGPT and Copilot for Your Projects and Events
- Writing Best Prompts
- Examples of Practical Applications
- Integrating AI with Microsoft Office 365
How is this course delivered?
- This course can be delivered at your venue
- This course can be delivered online at the date and time convenient to you
- This course is delivered online and is split into 2 half days
Dates and timings
15-16 October 2024, 1.00-4.30pm GMT
4-5 March 2025, 1.00-4.30pm GMT
Why choose this course?
- This course is tought by Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and Best PA Training Provider for the last 7 Years
- Over 50 pages of handouts and online resources
- 2 years of FREE post course support
- Endorsed by the IAM
- Certificate of attendance
- 100s of satisfied clients
- This course has been developed and refined over 17 years, keeping pace with the ever-changing role of the Office Professionals
Your trainer
PAul Pennant – Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional)
Founder & Lead Trainer of Today’s PA
