Project Management Boot Camp for Entertainment Managers
$425 ($525 after 9/14) A solid one-day training seminar in multiple sessions that provide the tools and techniques that are applicable to manage any size project. The course will increase your management skills in a significant way regardless of your starting point or background as a current or future manager/leader. There are many people who started their careers as experts in one field or another and have found themselves now managing a team with little if any project management training. The absence of term project management as a formal title has hidden the need for this training to be as obvious as in other industries. Many of the activities being done by the members of the target audience involves managing projects even though they are not recognized projects, but many of them are. This course taught by a trained project manager, practicing educator and an entertainment management practitioner for over 20 years will provide attendee with skills to take on any project with a sense of confidence and provide useful tools and techniques to ensure increased success. It will also show how to assess your progress and alter your approach before it is too late so that your projects can remain on time and be completed within budget at the prescribed quality. Session 1: What is a project and how to define what success looks like on the levels that matters? Initiating a project in a systematic way. • What is a project VS normal operation? Learn the definition and see that a lot of what we do involves project management. • Learn the steps involved in initiating a project in a way that makes success clear to all involved. • What are the formal steps in a project and why they are important to identify especially in managing the triple constraint of time, cost and quality? • Gather project requirements. • How to define and develop a complete project scope as well as understanding technique to break down (decompose) an established scope in a systematic way, applicable to any project (large or small, in any industry). • How to identify and manage the inevitable risks that are associated with all projects. • How to gather information to create a realistic schedule and budget. • How to be successful when you have to “back into a budget”. Session 2: Executing projects…how to make it happen in an efficient and systematic way. • People skills…what’s that?…how is it applicable to managing an entertainment-based project. • Technical skills involved in identifying risks (what can go wrong), on a project and how to prevent them from causing you to fail. • Learn where to focus and how to tweak to stay on track. • How to assist your technical experts to become great team leader that you can depend on for both technical expertise as well as project leadership. Session 3: Executing a project…a serious look at your workflow and how to measure and ultimately control your progress on projects. • Tips on how to managing and maximizing team dynamics. • Management of your workflow as a Project Manager with detailed use of flexible templates that can be personalized for managing your schedules, scope breakdown and budget. • Increase efficiency in an age of technology. • Learn what is EVM (earned value management) and how to apply it to your projects in a practical way. • How to create and use your own visual measures of progress to know where increased/decreased focus may be required while executing a project. • Look at the power of templates in ensuring consistent quality as well as increased efficiently as your career grows. • Microsoft Projects, what it is capable of…an introduction. Do you need this power? How to approach learning it. • Using Microsoft Excel to produce templates that are specific for your situation. Session 4: Closing a project. • Finishing a project versus stopping when the “shiny” portions are done. • How to translate working files into useful reference information for the future. Session 5: • Putting it all together and template for implementation of new info received from seminar. • How to apply these principles in a systematic way. • Tips for creating the required system of checks and balances to deliberately trigger, and monitor your growth as a manager. Target Audience: • Facilities managers for any performance/visual arts venue • Managers and leaders in House of worships • Technical Directors • Production Managers • Stage Managers • Faculty in technical theatre • Students of technical theatre • Event producers • Any middle manager • Rental houses team leaders, managers, and owners. Prerequisite: The basics of how to use a computer. Taught by: Rohan Garricks, Director
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