Project management for beginners webinar

The Australian Businesswomen’s Network (ABN) will host a project management webinar for beginners on 28 April 2011.

Presented by Helen S Cooke and Karen Tate, authors of The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Project Management, the webinar will take participants through a basic overview of how to successfully coordinate projects from start to finish.

Designed for business owners who have discovered the value of running projects to assure on time, on budget delivery, the webinar will cover how to:

• Plan, launch, manage and close projects
• Build the best team for each project
• Shape and drive a project using effective leadership
• Manage quality, costs, time and risk
• Deploy the latest project management technologies.

Helen S Cooke is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute (PMI) with with 25 years project management experience, including six years on PMI’s global board of directors and experience in multinational companies, government and consulting roles.

Karen Tate is the president and founder of The Griffin Tate Group a PMI Charter Global Registered Education Provider specialising in training for the project management community. She has held various corporate positions in project management, procurement and engineering, and has consulted with a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Cooke and Tate’s The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Project Management: Frontline strategies for skillfully managing a project from initial concept to successful completion, synthesises and organises current project management knowledge and material from the Project Management Institute and other leading bodies of knowledge into one comprehensive and contemporary resource.

The book also provides real-life case studies and examples, placed in the context of state-of-the-art applications, which makes this course book valuable to a wide range of professionals in virtually any industry.

WEBINAR: How to successfully coordinate projects from start to finish

Date: Thursday, 28 April 2011
Time: 10.15am for 10.30am – 11.30am AEST
Price: Free for ABN Growth Members; $39—ABN Startup Members; $59—Community and Non-Members.

See the Australian Businesswomen’s Network seminar page for details.