Project Skills For The PA & Administration Personnel

PAs and administrators who support projects and/or manage their own projects.

This one day course will give you a thorough understanding of the project structure, risks and priorities necessary to fulfil a management or support role in projects. It gives an overview of the essentials, enabling you to add more value to your role and bring best practice methodologies to the project team.

• Know-how to start small projects successfully

• Apply prioritisation and risk tools to a project of your own choice

• Essential planning tools to reduce the amount of time wasted

• A good understanding of best practice methodologies

• What is a project and why they fail

• How to evaluate a project

• Project start-up sequence

• Identifying the true project priorities

• Managing project risks

• Team exercise

• Drawing project networks

• Using Gannt charts and milestones

• Keeping a project on-track

This course is mapped to QCF unit 'Project Management Skills for the PA & Administration Personnel'

This course can be taken as part of our Institute of Administrative Management Level 3 Certificate in Professional PA and Administration Skills.

The qualification aims to give aspiring and existing PAs, secretaries and administration staff the foundation for their formal development in this role. It's an excellent introduction to the PA or administration role for anyone with limited experience or without formal training.

Anyone attending this course will be able to accredit their learning towards the qualification. Talk to one of our learning advisers on 0800 170 7777 to find out how you can get qualified.

I found this course to be extremely useful & informative & thoroughly enjoyable. It is exactly what I was looking in terms of learning about projects “

- Sue Kirton

Moorfields Eye Hospital