Do you want to be part of a team that meets its objectives on time and on budget? This course can help. The very day you return to the office you'll be able to:

• set realistic plans that work
• encourage your team to work together
• delegate effectively
• anticipate and deal with problems.

Are you part of a team in which you liaise with authors and in-house or freelance copy-editors, production, marketing or design staff? Do you maintain schedules, work to a budget and manage the progress of titles through to publication? Are you always juggling time, money and people? If so, this course offers you practical tips you can use immediately. It will help you to look beyond everyday crisis management to more strategic issues.

Programme

• Planning the project
  • The essential features and stages of all projects
  • How to create and evaluate objectives and quality standards
  • Personal skills and business tools needed to manage projects
  • Your stakeholders and explain why they are important
  • Planning the use of resources
• Managing the project
  • Assess your preferred team role and the roles of your colleagues
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Your ‘time bandits’ and techniques to combat them
  • Monitoring and reporting on the project
• Communicating effectively
  • Common problems with business communication
  • General rules for improving communication effectiveness
  • Briefing and delegating effectively
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • How to propose solutions upwards
• Taking it back to work
  • Creating an action plan to implement what you learn

Who will benefit from this course?
Anyone starting to manage their own projects

Your tutor
Since 1999, Harry Puckering has provided a bespoke training service to organisations: from learning needs analysis, through programme planning and delivery to evaluation. Recent programmes have included coaching, leadership, assertiveness, motivation, communication and influencing skills, team working and presentations. Prior to 1999 Harry spent 13 years in commissioning and management in Thomson Corporation business-to-business publishing companies. His final position was running the Transport Division of Jane’s Information Group, which profitably generated more than £2.5 million revenue each year, publishing books, magazines, CD-ROMs and web-based information for the civil transport markets.

We also offer Editorial Project Management.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.

Send details of this course to a colleague.

Dates: 30 June/28 October 2008

Price: £349+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

Make a provisional booking on Managing Projects