Project Management
Planning the executive conference, leading the C-suite tech upgrade or managing the new office move—all are examples of managing projects. And many of the skills you’ve mastered as an admin are essential to successful project delivery.
Administrative assistants who are tasked with project management must fully consider the “triple constraint” of scope, time and cost. That’s advice from admin trainer and coach Rhonda Scharf, founder of the On the Right Track consulting service.
Using proper project management techniques will help you keep things on track and have eyes on ways to improve your processes. There are a few tech tools you have right in front of you that can help.
The challenge when people get together on a document is to maintain one voice so that the reader isn’t thrown by changes in tense, point of view, phrasing, word choice, structure and so on. Sometimes it’s even difficult to keep on the same point. Group writing is hard, and the more people involved, the more difficult. Here are some guidelines.
Many fine managers are good at interfacing with people and coaching them up, but behind their backs, you’ll hear whispers. In his book Project Management for Non-Project Managers, author Jack Ferraro outlines what a good project plan does.
More and more positions are expected to implement these practices day to day. Try waterfall project management, which involves a clearly laid-out process that is followed from start to finish.
Question: What are the elements of a successful project we should be shooting for and that we can list for ourselves as guideposts?
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