Workshop: Project Management for History Professionals (May 2019)

Project Management provides valuable instruction in planning, managing and successfully completing projects of all types. In this workshop, you will learn how to implement internationally recognized project management principles in a history context. Instruction will cover all of the details in the four steps to successful project management:

1. Define (creating a project charter, setting initial objectives, identifying risks and constraints, and more)
2. Plan (developing a schedule, budget, etc.)
3. Manage (providing feedback, negotiating for resources and resolving differences)
4. Review (turning over deliverables, documentation and more)

Using real project ideas, participants apply project management principles to create a project charter and scope diagram that help them return home equipped to begin or continue their project in an efficient, orderly and open manner.

Details

FORMAT: In-person group workshop

LENGTH: Two days (9:00 am – 5:00 pm)

DATE: May 20-21, 2019

LOCATION: Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House, Moline, IL

MATERIALS: Workshop materials will be provided upon registration and in-person at the event.

COST: $475 AASLH members/ $560 nonmembers

** Save $40 when you register by April 19, 2019 and use promo code EARLYBIRD19 at checkout! **

Who Should Take Part in this Workshop:

Project Management is valuable training for staff at all levels. And, whether your work involves exhibitions, education and programs, planning, fundraising, collections, historic preservation or the many other tasks staff at history organizations address every day, you will leave this workshop with new skills, ideas and tools for successfully completing projects.

Feedback from Participants:

“Project management is usually discussed in terms of software development or construction management. It was so helpful to see its value within a humanities context. This is some of the best professional development I have ever experienced. Excellent instruction.” –2015 workshop participant

About the Faculty

AASLH welcomes Gina Minks as its new project management instructor. For the past five years, Gina has had her own consulting business and taught project management classes for the University of North Texas. She has also taught for the Library Information Technology Association and the Society of American Archivists. Prior to that, she served as the Imaging and Preservation service manager for Amigos Library Services where she managed NEH grants. Gina is active in professional associations including her current service as a board member for the Society of American Archivists Foundation. She is also a member of the National Heritage Responders and has been part of disaster recovery after Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Wilma, and Super Storm Sandy.