Upcoming Events

Career Learning Education: August 18, 2025 at 2:30pm ET

How to Manage Your Higher Education Projects

You’ll be introduced to the basics of project management, offering essential and actionable strategies to help you plan for and successfully deliver a wide variety of projects.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: August 20, 2025 at 1pm ET

Project Meeting Rescue

Learn how to address common project meeting challenges.

Career Learning: August 25-28, 2025 at 10am ET

Project Management For Nonprofits Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn project management basics and actionable strategies to help any nonprofit successfully plan and deliver projects.

Career Learning: Sept. 29 - October 2, 2025 at 1pm ET

HR Project Manager Certification

Learn project management basics and actionable strategies that can help any organization successfully plan and deliver projects. (This program is valid for 4.0 general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute and 4.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.)

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Recent Events

Career Learning: July 25, 2025 (Virtual)

Tackling Project Management Challenges

Struggling to run successful projects? Dive into five common project management challenges and learn actionable strategies to overcome them. Learn how to create buy-in, enhance team meetings and communication, and maximize the effectiveness of your project management tools.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: June 18, 2025 (Virtual)

Avoiding Burnout

We talked with Rebecca Marchiafava about avoiding burnout.

Career Learning: June 9 - 12, 2025 (Virtual)

Project Management For Nonprofits Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn project management basics and actionable strategies to help any nonprofit successfully plan and deliver projects.

ALA Learning Round Table Virtual Training Showcase: June 2-6, 2025 (Virtual)

Pause & Ponder: Elevating Library Training with Reflective Activities

Learn how to use reflective questions and activities in training to deepen understanding and help learners translate knowledge into practice.

NCLA RASS Spring Mini-Conference: May 30, 2025 (Virtual)

AI for Library Project Management

Learn practical ways project managers can leverage AI to generate ideas and create initial drafts of project plans, documents, and communications.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: May 21, 2025 (Virtual)

Successful Project Teams

Learn about the factors that create successful project teams.

Lyrasis Learning: April 29, 2025 (Virtual)

Turning your Strategic Plan into an Action Plan

Turn your library’s strategic plan into an action plan that guides, inspires, and empowers. In this session, attendees will learn realistic strategies for sustaining a dynamic planning process. Go from strategic plan to action plan and successfully implement your organization’s strategic goals.

Career Learning: April 22 - 25, 2025 (Virtual)

Project Management For Nonprofits Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn project management basics and actionable strategies to help any nonprofit successfully plan and deliver projects.

Career Learning: April 14 - 17, 2025 (Virtual)

HR Project Manager Certification

Learn project management basics and actionable strategies that can help any organization successfully plan and deliver projects. (This program is valid for 4.0 general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute and 4.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.)

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: April 9, 2025 (Virtual)

Change Management

Learn about managing change.

Lyrasis Learning: April 8, 2025 (Virtual)

Simple Strategic Planning

Spend less time planning and more time taking action! In this session, we'll introduce a simplified approach to strategic planning that emphasizes flexibility, transparency, and inclusiveness.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: March 26, 2025 (Virtual)

3 Common Project Mistakes

Learn how to fix three common project management mistakes.

Career Learning: March 11, 2025 (Virtual)

Master Project Success: Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes

Struggling with delayed deliverables and chaotic meetings? Uncover the five common mistakes holding your projects back and gain actionable strategies to overcome them. Learn how to engage stakeholders, boost team communication, and build project plans that actually work.

Career Learning: February 20 - March 27, 2025 (Virtual)

Project Manager CAPM® Certification Training

This CAPM® certification course gives you the necessary 23 hours and PMI-certified course materials to get you ready for the CAPM exam and teaches you the skills you need to lead any project effectively or work exclusively as a project manager.

Nonprofit.ist & Consultants for Libraries: February 8, 2025 (Virtual)

Strategic Planning for Greater Impact for Consultants

In this highly engaging and practical session, Katherine Turner, Founding President of Global Citizen, LLC, and Jami Yazdani, of Yazdani Consulting & Facilitation, will introduce you to the why and how of strategic planning and lead you through a high-level strategic planning process tailored for small consulting and coaching businesses.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: January 22, 2025 (Virtual)

Closing the Strategy Gap

Learn about how to assess and maintain strategic alignment.

ALA Core Classroom: January 13 - February 7, 2025 (Virtual)

Project Management for Library Professionals

Attendees will be introduced to the basic principles of project management and presented with strategies to rally stakeholders, encourage project momentum, and triumph over common project challenges. The course includes asynchronous content over 4 weeks with 4 60-minute live sessions.

Career Learning NonProfits: December 16 - 19, 2024 (Virtual)

Project Management For Nonprofits Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn project management basics and actionable strategies to help any nonprofit successfully plan and deliver projects.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: November 20, 2024 (Virtual)

Website and Design Projects

We'll talk with Seth Giammanco about managing website and design projects.

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: October 16, 2024 (Virtual)

Managing Program Development Projects

Learn about managing program development projects.

Career Learning NonProfits: October 7 - 10, 2024 (Virtual)

Project Management For Nonprofits Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn project management basics and actionable strategies to help any nonprofit successfully plan and deliver projects.

Career Learning Education: October 7, 2024 (Virtual)

How to Manage Your Higher Education Projects

You’ll be introduced to the basics of project management, offering essential and actionable strategies to help you plan for and successfully deliver a wide variety of projects.

Career Learning NonProfits: October 4, 2024 (Virtual)

Earned Value Management in Projects

Learn actionable strategies for estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs to maintain expenses throughout the nonprofit project lifecycle.

Career Learning Human Resources: October 1 - 4, 2024 (Virtual)

HR Project Manager Certification

Learn project management basics and actionable strategies that can help any organization successfully plan and deliver projects. (This program is valid for 4.0 general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute and 4.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.)

Impactful Projects & Planning Series: September 25, 2024 (Virtual)

Optimum Productivity

Learn about productivity research and framework.

Career Learning Education: September 23 - 26, 2024 (Virtual)

Higher Education Project Management Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn essential and actionable strategies to help you plan, manage, and deliver projects in higher education environments.

Career Learning NonProfits: September 3 - 6, 2024 (Virtual)

Project Management For Nonprofits Certification

Gain a valuable certification and learn project management basics and actionable strategies to help any nonprofit successfully plan and deliver projects.

Career Learning NonProfits: August 12 - 15, 2024 (Virtual)

Project Cost Management For Nonprofits Certification

Ensure your nonprofit projects are delivered within their allocated budgets! Learn actionable strategies for estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs to maintain expenses throughout the project lifecycle.

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