Editorial Project Management
Dates:
6-7 April, 1-2 December 2009* (a two-day course)
Price:
£719+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
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This hands-on course is based on real case-studies and, where possible and appropriate, will focus on delegates' actual issues and problems. So, at the end of the two days, you will leave with some immediately applicable solutions and strategies. There will also be a range of more generic checklists to take away and use as tools in the future.
The course looks at each of the four aspects of successful editorial project management in turn. You’ll learn how to deliver books and other resources:
- to the agreed specification
- within budget
- on time
- at the right quality.
In each case you will consider how and where things can go wrong and how you can prevent this.
Programme
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How to evaluate the resources required for successful delivery
- People
- Budget
- Schedule
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Sticking to the specification
- Being clear about what the specification should cover
- Whose responsibility – both doing the work and bearing the cost?
- Effective briefing
- Working with authors, editors, designers, production – in-house and freelance
- Being aware of the implications of change, especially for budgets
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Sticking to the budget
- Overview of basic costing and gross margin calculations
- Impact of changes to fixed costs on gross margin
- Negotiating fees
- Cost vs. time dilemmas
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Sticking to the schedule
- Creating workable schedules
- Progress chasing – systems and tools
- Managing workloads
- Working with authors, editors, designers, production – in-house and freelance
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Ensuring quality
- Why feedback is important and how to deliver it
- Troubleshooting session on specific problems
Who will benefit from this course?
Editors, Desk Editors and Managing Editors in book or journal publishing who are taking on the management of complete editorial projects.
Your tutor
Heather Morris has over twenty years’ experience in the educational and children's publishing industries. She was English Publisher at Heinemann Educational Books for nine years. She then left to become Director of Educational Publishing at the BBC where she was responsible for building a business which developed print, audio, video and CD products to support TV and radio broadcasts. Since 1996 she has been running her own publishing consultancy and has been involved in a wide range of projects – from the Teletubbies to the National Numeracy Strategy. Other ventures have included in-house training for a publishing company in Jamaica and writing and co-publishing her own children’s books. She continues to work with a variety of clients – both commercial and non-commercial – covering a mix of markets and media.
We also offer Editorial Project Management by Distance Learning.
Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.
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Dates: 6-7 April, 1-2 December 2009*
Price: £719+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
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