The Joy of Project Management! Managing All Projects, Large and Small 2026

The marvelous thing about project management skills is that they are extraordinarily valuable in many ways. They allow you to be more effective in your work and personal life. They demonstrate leadership skills that can lead to your promotion. And they earn you gratitude from everyone on a project you manage.
Janet Crum and Elisa Cortez, trained and experienced project management experts, will be your guides to developing a project management mindset and acquiring project management skills. You’ll learn:

• practical ways to develop detailed, actionable project plans for projects of any size
• how to break big projects into small, actionable steps 
• how to avoid stress associated with managing complex projects
• how to build a project team that includes the right people in the right roles
• ways to track and communicate progress easily and thoroughly
• approaches to communicating with and motivating others and identifying problems early
• means of tracking progress to ensure you deliver outcomes on time and as painlessly as possible
• when and why you should use project management techniques
• how to manage your workload efficiently

You’ll learn through presentation, demonstration, discussion, and small group work in which you’ll practice with tools and techniques presented in the course to create a plan for a small project.

You’ll leave the course with know-how and confidence that will enable you to become more effective in any library role from entry level to director and in your life and able to spread the joy of project management to all you work with and for.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify when and why you should use project management techniques
• Break a project into tasks and subtasks, identify dependencies among tasks, and build a detailed project plan
• Choose among types of tools for managing projects
• Apply project management skills to managing your own workload

Audience

Medical librarians and other information professionals who want to learn to manage projects and their own workloads more effectively and painlessly.

MLA CE Credits 3