Month: March 2008

Project Management for Training

I am teaching a new class that begins next week — Project Management for Training. The course description is listed as:

Whether you’re conducting a single training session for a small audience or multiple sessions for a large group, a training program–like a project in any other discipline–must have an effective plan to guide and track progress. This class provides you with a planning process and teaches you techniques to prepare and deliver training projects consistently and effectively. Focusing on logistics, rationale, scope, timescales, risk management, and budget, you acquire the skills to communicate with the training project’s stakeholders to ensure optimum performance.

I am looking forward to teaching this class, as I am able to bring my skills as a senior instructional designer (my full-time title) and project management (what I primarily do right now) and merge them with my expertise in adult education and human resource development (two of my graduate degrees).

After working in this field for some time now, this this seems to be my life recently . . .

project management

I am interested in seeing if anybody has any useful references or websites they want to share, as well as any stories about how they have seen project management brought into the training function. Any thoughts?

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-27

  • Waiting for an appointment that is running late. #
  • Have been somewhat preoccupied with deliverables all week since the holiday weekend, and have not blogged at all. #
  • Will blog next about the class I am teaching that begins next week. Started writing the post, so just have to proofread and then voila! #
  • Just registered for FriendFeed. Any others I should try? #
  • Ate a wonderful fresh and warm everything bagel with lowfat veggie creamcheese while walking. Healthy? #
  • Watching school buses filled with children by Madison Square Garden here for a field trip. No better city to visit. Can be transformative. #
  • Going to a really important senior management meeting, hoping them to approve our project’s next steps. #
  • The meeting went well. Very well. New issues were raised which will involve additional work strands, but approval was given to move forward. #

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-26

  • I actually voted on American Idol tonight. #
  • Tweaking a syllabus for a class I am teaching that begins next week. #
  • Getting chicken noodle soup. #
  • @nelliemuller Either lots more or less sleep, depending on how you understand asynchronous learning! #
  • @jowyang One difference is FriendFeed is blocked at work. #
  • @jowyang Am interested in what you learn about the differences as well. WIll you post them? #
  • @betsyweber Kindles sound more exciting than they look. Interested if you think they are worth the hype, especially for reading on a subway. #
  • I just tried FriendFeed and Facebook again, and they are not blocked. I wonder if the firewall is being updated? #
  • @arjunsingh What work lies ahead? Travel safely, Arjun. #
  • Thinking about using Twitter in a new class I am teaching next week. Anybody have any experience doing this? #
  • @maniactive Not sure I understand. You are recording or typing the chapter a day? #
  • @fncll I also signed up for the NMC Mashup Conference; not sure how much I can attend as no SL at work. Hope the time difference helps. #

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