Higher Education Project Management Certification
02-10 to 02-13-2025 2:00 PM EST or 05-27 to 05-30-2025 11:00 AM EST
Are your higher education projects stalled or stuck? When you meet with your project team, do your carefully crafted plans unravel? Do you feel overwhelmed by the prospect of another project? Do you wonder how you will meet your deadline and maintain the quality others expect? This is the day-to-day world of project management. Management of projects involves organizing, planning, and facilitating collaboration to turn ideas into tangible products, services, and deliverables. With a scope, schedule, and deliverables plan, you can unite diverse stakeholders, define a common purpose, and be confident that your project will succeed. Learn how to overcome common college and university project challenges, from planning and initiation to closing. Find out how to achieve more successful results, whether you are working with large teams or on smaller projects.
Learn the basics of higher ed project management from our expert speaker, Jami Yazdani PMP, DASM. Jami offers practical and actionable strategies to help you plan and deliver projects successfully and to give you the training you need to keep your career moving forward.
What You'll Learn
An engaging series of four webinars packed with proven techniques will enable you to:
- Understand the importance of project management for your institution and your career
- Identify important stakeholders and improve your communication strategies
- Implement the essential steps of higher education project management, from defining a clear scope and identifying deliverables to project scheduling
- Learn how to close a project successfully
- Build strong teams with effective, intentional communication
- Foster successful outcomes for your organization
- Demonstrate your knowledge
- Accelerate your career
You’ll Also Receive
- All courses include a PDF version of the presentation slides along with any additional materials or resources provided by the presenter
- Certification upon successful completion
- One certification exam attempt is included
Higher Education Project Management Certification Sessions Outline
Session 1: Introduction to Project Management for Higher Education
- Why project management?
- Project processes
- Project lifecycle
- Planning areas of focus
- Planning approach for higher education
- Project management framework for higher education
Session 2: Stakeholders and Communications
- Project initiation
- Stakeholders and Inclusion
- Effective communication
- Communication process
- Team Roles and Management
- Communication planning
Session 3: Scope, Deliverables, and Schedule
- Scope, scope planning, and scope creep
- Deliverables and deliverables planning
- Project Quality
- Schedule and schedule planning
- Project management tools
Session 4: Project Closing and Beyond
- Project Integration
- Project Budgeting
- Project Closing
- Agile Approaches
- Common Project Problems
- Beyond Projects
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Who Should Attend?
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) & Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM)
- Founded Yazdani Consulting and Facilitation in 2018 to help mission-driven organizations solve management problems
- Over 15 years of experience managing complex projects and planning initiatives, leading technology innovations and process improvements, and guiding groups of diverse colleagues and stakeholders toward consensus and positive outcomes.
- More than 10 years of leadership experience in libraries and public higher education, managing people, budgets, and projects.
- Served on the boards of several nonprofits and professional associations, working in leadership, marketing, programming, and mentoring roles.
- Currently serves on the board of the Triangle Organizational Development Network.
- Master of Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University.
- Master of Technology Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus.