PM for Association Professionals

Elevate your project management skills with this session tailored specifically for association professionals! Designed to address the unique challenges of association projects, we’ll equip participants with practical strategies for setting expectations, engaging stakeholders, developing teams, tasks, and resources utilizing strategic plans to create effective project and communication plans with existing or low-cost tools.

This course is 3 hours total consisting of 3 live virtual 60-minute sessions.

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Project Management for Association Professionals

Continuing Education Credit – 1 each session
Dates: 4/16/26, 4/23/26, 4/30/26

SESSION 1: 4/16/26, 4-5pm EST

  • Identifying priorities & Planning for the year ahead
  • Planning initiatives & Ensuring commitment to your strategic plan
  • Project management tools – Selecting the right tool & Sample project plan using Monday.com
  • Working with 3rd party vendors

SESSION 2: 4/23/26, 4-5pm EST
Project: Growing conferences, programs and events

  • The Strategic Plan – Goals, success measures, and assignments
  • The Strategic Plan – Project planning
    • Project plan – Setting project initiatives for events and conferences
    • The phases of a project
    • Project planning – grow your conferences and events
  • Teams and tasks
    • Who will make decisions?
    • Schedule and assignments – Monday.com
  • Implementation – Drivers of change

SESSION 3: 4/30/26 4-5pm EST

  • Association trends
    • Emerging leaders
    • Inclusivity
  • AI for Associations
    • AI in practice – security, privacy and data concerns
    • Association use cases
  • Drivers of change
    • Critical success factors
    • Communications
    • Change readiness

Course topics include:

Setting the stage for a successful project
Technology and tools for PM
Supporting your project & activating team commitment
Maximizing the potential for industry-based programming
Scenario exercises for managing the project plan