Simple Project Management for Learning and Development

Session Description

The purpose of this short workshop is to provide you with a way to improve project management success for L&D projects and learn how to:

• Create a project schedule with tasks and duration
• Create due dates for project tasks by working back from the due date
• Leverage a Scope Diagram to determine milestones
• Determine Task Dependencies – what order are the tasks?
• Determine Resource Dependencies – what people are needed to help?
• Keep an eye on mitigating risk and building a communication plan
• Create a governance plan (change management) to drive prioritization while the project is built.

About the Speaker

Lou Russell is the Queen of Russell Martin & Associates and an executive consultant, speaker, and author whose passion is to create growth in companies by guiding the growth of their people. In her speaking, training, and writing, Lou draws on over 40 years of experience helping organizations achieve their full potential. She is committed to inspiring improvement in all three sides of what she has dubbed the Optimization Triangle: Leadership, Project Management, and Individual Learning.

Lou is the author of six popular books on project management, training, leadership and accelerating learning. As a sought-after national and international speaker, Lou blends humorous stories with her engaging on-the-ground experience to customize her presentation, facilitation and teaching to the real problems of the people in the room. Even Covid couldn’t stop her.

Encouraged by Lou’s upbeat and practical style, every participant leaves with new enthusiasm and tools to improve the bottom line through their people. Her motto is Lecture as a Last Resort. You will be moving, laughing, participating, inspired and challenged. Most important to Lou, you will learn.

Lou has spoken at over 300 conferences including ASTD International, SIM (IT), ELearning Guild, Training Magazine Network, and American Museum Association Nursing Educators, CPMI and at many corporate events. Lou is currently a little bit retired.

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