GFOA Alberta, in cooperation with Bloom Centre for Municipal Education, is proud to bring back the 10-Part Webinar Series for 2019 as “Webinars-on-Demand”.

Learn basic foundational project and change management skills to power your career in the complex and ever-changing municipal environment! New in your career, supervisor,manager or executive? In municipal government you are faced with complex challenges every day. Your ability to manage change and projects has a direct impact on both your career and municipality’s success.

The Project Planning and Management Webinar offers the following:

• the basic knowledge of project and change management, improving your skill set and abilities
• Review of project and change challenges specific to municipal government. (politics, limited budgets, organizational silos) 
• Project Planning Basics. Scope of a project plan. Timelines, milestones, team members, defining roles and responsibilities, stakeholders, defining/overcoming challenges. 
• Project Lifecycle. Beginning to end stages of a project. 
• Change Management Basics. Identify change, challenges, action plans, overcoming nay-sayers, communication plans. 
• Why Do Projects Succeed and Fail? Steps for success. Tips and techniques to ensure projects are “on time, on budget”. 
• Understanding and Aligning Priorities within projects. 
• Resistance to Change. Individual and organizational resistance to change. Why resistance happens and strategies to overcome resistance. 
• Qualities of a Strong Sponsor. Identify your project champions and key stakeholders. The importance of leadership in project/change management. 
• Included – basic project plan template and examples 
• Learn the “one pager” technique for project planning

This “webinar-on-demand” option offers the convenience of anytime viewing.  A password will be provided for access upon successful registration and will be valid for 60 days from date of purchase.

You can either register for this “Single Webinar-on-Demand” for $175  here, or choose to register for the full 10-Part Webinar Series below:

• 10-Part Webinar-on-Demand Series for 2019 for $1,500: https://www.gfoa.ab.ca/event/10-part-on-demand-2019-webinar-series/ (savings of $25/webinar)