Dates and timings
14 March 2024
9.00 – 17.00
Venue
Wallacespace
Covent Garden,
53 Parker Street,
London, WC2B 5PT
“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 will 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
Why choose this course?
- 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
- I have been teaching this course for over 17 years
Your trainer
PAul Pennant
Founder & Owner of Today’s PA
