Training - Managing Multiple Projects

How to manage one or more projects of varying sizes and significance in addition to daily tasks?

This training provides tools to effectively handle both ongoing activities and projects. It combines the best of project management and time management to enhance efficiency.

This training addresses the following questions:

• How to fit all these projects into the week?
• How to manage the multitude of requests and the fragmentation of activities?
• How to maintain a sense of personal effectiveness by accumulating small victories?

Before

Digital learning activities to prepare yourself for the training and its implementation:

• Defining your training objectives
• Conducting a self-assessment of your skills

During - Group Session

1 -  The six levers of time management

• Discover and apply the six levers of effective personal organisation to multi-project management: priorities, choices, planning, focus, energy

In practice: Identifying one's multi-project discomfort zones


2 - Prioritise projects

• Defining personal prioritisation criteria
• Ranking projects and activities by order of priority

In practice: Establishing prioritisation of activities and projects


3 - Qualify a project / Know how to say no

• Measuring the workload of current activities and project management
• Breaking down projects and distributing workload and deliverables over time

In practice: Self-assessment of multi-project workload


4 - Plan your projects / Organise and coordinate projects in advance

• Assessing the impact of splitting, managing emails and unforeseen events
• Balancing day-to-day activities with project management

In practice: Planning your core tasks in your weekly schedule


5 - Manage your schedule: keeping the main project tasks under control

• Negotiating scope, resources or deadlines with the client/manager
• Knowing how to say 'no' assertively

In practice: Saying no to your client


6 - Increase effectiveness in project meetings

• Coordinating in advance to save time downstream
• Conducting effective project meetings

7 - Maintain your energy levels

• Activate the keys to a feeling of personal effectiveness: experiment with mastery, observe others, ask for feedback, observe your emotional state

In practice: Practice to work on your self-efficacy

After

Digital learning activities to facilitate the implementation of your learning in the workplace:

• Ready-to-use tools
• Micro-practicing programme by email

Assessment

An online questionnaire to assess your acquired skills