The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course in Project Management for a PA, Office Manager and Senior Support Staff. This training course is intended to provide additional insights, tools, and techniques for executing effective projects. By the end of the course, participants will understand the project cycle and be able to plan using tools and processes. The course will be delivered by a team of internationally experienced energy engineers, where participants will learn how to apply gap analysis, risk analysis and identify the needs of multiple stakeholders and the various people involved in implementing a project. In addition, participants receive tools and methodologies to help them complete their projects on time, on budget, and to specification.

This project management training teaches not only what needs to be done to plan, design, manage, and execute a project, but also the mindset and behaviours necessary to successfully execute a project and avoid conflicts between teams. In addition to these key areas of project management, you'll also learn the processes that make it easier to develop innovative solutions.

Who should attend? 

Project Management for PA is intended for:

• personal Assistants.
• Executive Assistants.
• Office managers.
• Project assistants involved in planning and organizing current or future projects.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• Knows how to redesign resumes to meet project requirements from EA, PA, and office manager profiles.
• Get a clear understanding of the key transferable skills of an EA, PA, or office manager.
• Get an overview of the key qualifications (technical and soft skills) needed to start your project.
• Learn project terminology.
• Understand how to plan. Get an overview of key project management models, including the project life cycle, PRINCE 2, 7S model, 6C model, and more.
• Familiarize yourself with the pressures and constraints that affect project management and how to address these aspects of your industry.
• Conduct hands-on exercises on planning and feasibility studies.
• Understand the importance of plan management and the use of appropriate soft skills demonstrated throughout the course.
• Understand the mix of technical skills, project-specific knowledge, and soft skills.

• An overview of the most important project management models and related terms
• What is project management?
• Project life cycle model
• Plan a project and its associated model
• The Best Combination of Soft Skills a Project Manager Needs
• Good PM skills and experience
• Project team
• Why are executive PA and office manager skills ideal for project management?
• Manage time and resource constraints.
• Case studies from real project situations and how to deal with them.
• Overview of PRINCE2.
• Overview of Project Management IT Software.
• Final and post-completion audits.
• Project management and execution.
• Define and research your project. SWOT, cost-benefit analysis and goals.
• Show project progress, monitoring, and control using Gantt charts, critical path analysis, and other methods.
• Detailed project lifecycle review.
• Crisis management.
• Project Constraints.