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Managing Projects

The purpose of a project leader is to empower team members to feel they have a real stake in the project. These topics will highlight critical areas for project leadership, including clear communication about goals, responsibility, performance, expectations and feedback.

  • Manage project plans, activities, budget, people and other resources, metrics, risks and technology according to the project schedule/timeline.
  • Use relevant, timely and clear communication to engage and inform stakeholders.
  • Identify obstacles, manage and mitigate risks.
  • Direct how tasks are implemented today and determine what is to be accomplished in the future.
  • Help people impacted by changes that occur during the project.

Project Management Toolkit

New to project management?  Need a few quick tools to get started?  You'll find several here as well as a six-phase project management process to help you build your own project management process.

Leading with Balance

This self-study course is designed to strengthen individual and organizational performance by developing your leadership attributes in the context of managing people, work, and special projects. Aimed at those in both project and people management roles, the emphasis is on balancing both the people and the process of getting work done within your organization.

Literally Virtually: Leading from a Distance

This model provides the critical components that lead to successful virtual team results. Here, each component is detailed with key steps to creating and maintaining virtual teams whose results match and surpass co-located teams.

Understanding the Complexity and Reliance of Your Teams

Managing the complexities and differences of time, distance, culture, and technology are enough to leave any leader wondering if virtual teams are as effective as face-to-face teams. Our assessment helps you quickly determine the impact of these factors on your team. The Quick Reference Guide offers essential information for leading the most challenging of these teams.

Improving Managerial Decision Making

Is your business or organization constantly evolving its strategy to keep up with industry evolution? How many of your strategic moves make it off the planning table? For many businesses and organizations just like yours, strategic planning is smooth yet the execution is slow. So, what’s bottlenecking the implementation of organizational strategies?  This recorded webinar provides valuable insight.

Meeting Preparation Tools

In this course, you’ll dive into two guides for planning and running successful meetings. Never run a boring meeting again!

Mission Critical Meetings

Most people believe that meetings are a huge waste of time -- and they're usually right. Though meetings are essential to the life of any organization, they tend to be boring, inefficient, and unproductive. But they don't have to be.  Download this book to learn 81 techniques for conducting engaging and productive meetings that are NOT a waste of time.

Maximize Your Meetings: From Snore to Soar

In this recorded webinar, Ava Butler offers her insights into how you can maximize your meetings. She discusses valuable - and practical - tips, tricks, and strategies to make each meeting count.