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

Date of Live Webinar: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m., Central Time

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.

Presenters

Janet Crum, MLS is the Dean of Library Services, Fresno State University, with over 25 years of experience managing projects in health sciences and general academic libraries. Her success in leading a complex system migration involving three libraries and difficult institutional politics led directly to a promotion to a department head role, which launched her career in library leadership.

Elisa Cortez, MILS is the Medical Education and Clinical Outreach Librarian at the University of California Riverside. She has over 25 years of experience as a medical librarian that includes work as a product manager, 10 years as head of access services, and the management of projects, large and small. A planner aficionado, she brings her project management skills to her personal and professional life.

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