How to increase your productivity in everyday editing activities and optimize collaboration with other departments

Customers are becoming more demanding, standards are constantly changing, and efficiency and cost control are required. The employees of the technical documentation department have to rely on the cooperation of several internal departments. Moreover, as one of the "last links" in order processing, the creation of technical documentation is very often subject to great time pressure. In order to fulfil these diverse requirements and tasks, the know-how as project manager is required.

In this two-day intensive seminar and a subsequent web conference, you will learn project management methods and tools for mastering the complexity of your editing projects. The focus is also on creating structures and processes that foster smoother cooperation with all stakeholders without having authority to issue instructions.

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Contents

Environment and requirements of project management: term definition, challenges, goals, roles and responsibilities
Project Initiation or how to lay the foundation for success: project definition, risk management, proposal preparation, negotiations
Project planning and start, setting the course for smooth processing: project organization, process / time planning, communication in the project team, project documentation, placing of orders
Project execution, monitoring and controlling, achieve project goals with confidence: Keeping the project under control, dealing with changes and deviations from plan, self-organization in multi-project management, team communication
The forward-looking project closing: project evaluation, process optimization, customer and team loyalty

Course benefits

Applying project management principles and methods effectively for editing projects
Bringing project objectives and interests of the project participants into line
Achieving quality goals and deadlines reliably
Building successful and motivating communication
Mastering difficult situations in everyday project work with confidence
Handling projects more serenely

Who benefits from this seminar

Are you responsible for technical documentation projects at an internationally active company or at a service Provider for technical writing?
Would you like to lead your projects more efficiently and safely to success?
Would you like to learn the managerial perspective of your projects and to be able to communicate more confidently with product managers and department leaders?
Are you an experienced project manager or team leader aiming at systematizing your work or optimizing existing processes?

Then you are exactly right here!

Methods

Experience lively days through a constant change of input, group activities and practice-oriented exercises. Go through a learning field that enables you to learn more about your strengths and potentials and expand your competencies. We adapt the contents individually to the group of participants. Bring in your knowledge, your questions and your focus wishes and apply what you have learned directly in practice.

A few weeks after the event, we organize a short web conference to support the knowledge transfer. It serves to deepen the content and discuss your implementation issues.