Project Management

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Hi, this is Sherry Petro. Welcome to Project Management Essentials. What are we going to be talking about today? Well, truly, the basics of how do you manage a project? Whether it's a $100,000 project or a multi-million dollar project, we've got some of the basics that we'll be sharing with you that will give you an idea of how do you take an idea from conceptualization all the way to fruition. So, let's get started. But before we do, remember, there's some instructions here. You can access our course manual through the Project Management page where you opened this instruction. You can pause, rewind, just make sure that you get the maximum value out of your participation today. So, what are you hoping to learn? I can tell you what my basic objectives are. As a strategist, I always have to have something that at the very end, I can tick off and say, we have achieved something. That's a hint about one of the things that a project manager does most of all. We'll get into it in a few moments. I wanted to find the basics of project management for you. What are all of the things, the skills, the tools, the attributes that really great project managers have, and how can you develop some of those for yourself? Determine the challenges, and if you have been managing projects for a while, I bet you're going to have a few things to contribute here. I'm also going to be offering some solutions on how to overcome those challenges. We're going to be sharing best practices that other project managers have offered throughout the years. We're going to be talking about the 20 activities that an excellent project manager integrates into their project. You're going to leave here knowing how you can take something from the idea all the way to the end and do it well, communicating effectively with your team and achieving the result that you're hoping to get. I gave you a few hints there, but I'm hoping that you're going to take a few minutes and answer this question. Feel free to pull out your manual and on the second page or the third page. Think about what you are really hoping to learn. You're going to be spending valuable time. What are you hoping to get out of this? You can pause right here, so hopefully you thought long and hard about what you were hoping to get out of today. Setting an intention, having a purpose, is one of the very first things that a project manager needs to have. Why bother getting the team together if we don't know what the intent is? It's also helpful to keep, just like I'm going to ask you to keep, your intention front and center. One of the hints that I'll share with you right off the bat, when you have your project team meetings, make sure that you have the intention, whether it be on the whiteboard or on your agendas, something that everybody can lean into saying, all right, this is what we're all together for. This is the result that we're hoping to achieve. One thing right off the bat, it's important for you to understand what you want to learn, it's your intention, and that's one of our very first lessons for today.