Project Management for Learning Professionals Certificate

Be more effective in planning, organizing, and controlling your projects.

This two-day program presents concrete steps to improve your project management skills. Participants will learn to manage the critical project management role helping deliver learning and performance solutions that better support their business goals.

Audience
This workshop is designed for learning and performance professionals who are involved in one or more of the following areas:

• Accurately estimating WLP project duration
• Planning, tracking, and monitoring multiple WLP projects
• Communicating project status to stakeholders
• Managing resources and reporting progress
• Managing external suppliers.

Course Description
We all have good intentions, but once we start a new training project along with all the other projects we’ve got going, the projects can take a life of their own. In this workshop, developed in partnership with Russell Martin & Associates, participants will learn how to better manage the critical project management role that helps us deliver learning and performance solutions in a way that supports business goals. The workshop provides concrete steps to improve project management skills and a method that is repeatable yet flexible.

Earn 1.4 CEUs upon successfully completing this program. Learn more.

ASTD Certificate Programs are learning events and a certificate is awarded to participants upon successful completion of the program. No test is given and participants are not certified. Certification is a testing event that confirms that skills, knowledge, or competencies have been acquired. Please click here for more information on the ASTD Certification Institute’s credential, the Certified Professional in Learning and Performance™ (CPLP™).

PMI Certifications: You can receive PDUs (professional development units) toward the Project Management Professional Certification. Check with the Project Management Institute for their requirements.

Learning Objectives
After the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between project management and project work
  
• Define the roles of the Project Manager, Project Sponsor, and other key individuals on a project
  
• Create a Project Charter
  
• Build a Project Plan including schedules, resource allocations, and budgets
  
• Create activity networks (PERT, Gantt, and CPM) and other tools for communicating project scope and activities
  
• Create criteria for monitoring and reporting progress, including Control Point Identification charts, Project Costing charts, and Milestone charts
  
• Identify and manage project risks
  
• Determine and anticipate changes that occur during project execution
  
• Develop a detailed work plan to accurately determine the project completion date
  
• Accurately estimate project activities
  
• Manage external vendors more effectively
  
• Discover the power of the Review Process to improve future performance.

Facilitators
For more information about this program's facilitators, click here.

On-Site Offerings
ASTD can make arrangements for the Project Management for Learning Professionals Certificate Program to be offered at your organization. Your attendees participate in the same learning experience offered at our public seminars, but have the convenience of being at your site and the benefit of covering the material with company peers who also will be involved in the move to performance improvement.