Project Leadership: How To Be An Effective Project Manager

Master new Project Management Leadership Skills required to successfully run a project team and achieve a project goals.
What you'll learn
Understand fundamentals of Project Management and Leadership.
Understand the complementary relationship between Project Management and Leadership.
Work effectively and professionally with human resources in a project team or an organization.
Identify key project stakeholders and know how to manage them.
Comprehend core leadership framework and how to align it with a project's vision and goals.
Create and manage mutually beneficial relationships with key individuals to ensure effective cooperation/collaboration.
Apply strategies to align people to support and sustain a project or organization success through application of well-known methods used to influence people.
Adopt methods used to drive project and organizational changes and requirements.
Demonstrate effective leadership skills capable to build an environment of trust, respect, and confidence within a PMT organization or any organization.
Adhere to professional and ethical code conducts.
Assume a project manager's leadership role applying generally recognized business practices, including Project Leadership Matrix and Leadership SWOT Analysis.
Improve both interpersonal and leadership skills for your own benefit as well as that of your project team and organization.
Become an effective PM that values and upholds the ethical organizational responsibilities project managers have to people at work.
Master people management skills required to enable effective communication and collaboration.
Basics of how-to set-up high performing project teams.
Get a competitive edge over your peers for the next leadership or managerial role.
Know benefits of leadership in project management.
Look at performance management from a new angle – the leadership way.
Requirements
Interest in Project Management and Leadership
Willingness to learn.
Description
Earn industry-required project leadership skills when you complete this excellent online program, designed to provide professional training for both practicing and aspiring modern project managers. This course may also be valuable to project leaders, project participants and functional managers as well as individuals interested in leadership (in general) and project leadership (in particular).Whether you've been thrown in at the deep end of a project that urgently needs to be put back under control, or you're already in a project execution phase and guess what? Things are starting to veer off track. Now, you have that burning feeling to steer everyone to bring the project back on track, the question remains, how? Or you admire some great leaders at work and wonder whether you have what it takes to do the same? This online course is exactly what you need to become a great project manager with effective leadership skills ready to go the extra mile, showcase high emotional intelligence, excel at communication, build cooperative relationships, and create and lead high-performing project teams to successfully complete projects.So, how do you become a great project management leader? More so, how can you build the self-confidence and skills required to step up and lead as an effective project manager?This course will set you apart from traditional project management which focuses on productivity (results), overseeing project progress, and driving performance among project teams. After successful completion of this course, you will develop your leadership style to work better in different project situations and you will also be prepared to positively influence your project team to work fundamentally different than just a random group of workers, thereby achieving project goals.What you will get from this course has been structured as follows:Module 01: Managing Versus Leading a ProjectBasics of Project Management and Leadership.Difference Between Managing and Leading a Project.10 Common Problems Project Teams Face.The Appropriate Project Management Approach.Module 02: Project Stakeholders ManagementLeadership Role of a Project Manager.Understanding Roles of Project Participants.Module 03: Leadership TheoriesCore Leadership Theories.Trait Theories.Behavioral Theories.Situational Theories.Module 04: Building Networks (Relationships)Project Management Maxims.Building a Collaborative Network.How to Create Positive Influence Using Commonly Traded Organizational Currencies.Building Social Networks Through Mapping Dependencies, Management by Wondering Around, Managing Upward Relations, and Leading by Example.Module 05: Building TrustEthics and Effective Project Managers.Project Management Institute (PMI) – code of ethics and personal conduct.Building trust by using personal character, self-confidence, and competence.Module 06: Applied Project Leadership StylesProject Leadership Matrix.Leadership SWOT Analysis.Module 07: Qualities of an Effective Project ManagerParadoxes of Project Management.Qualities of an Effective Project Manager.Recommendations for Project Managers.Personal Mastery and Leadership Development Plan.Benefits of leadership in project management.Module 08: Closing Notes - Project SuccessProject Success.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Course Overview & Learning Objectives
Lecture 3 Meet Your Course Instructor
Section 2: Managing Versus Leading a Project
Lecture 4 Basics of Project Management and Leadership
Lecture 5 Managing Versus Leading a Project
Lecture 6 The Appropriate Project Management Approach
Section 3: Project Stakeholders Management
Lecture 7 Leadership Role of a Project Manager
Lecture 8 Roles of Project Participants
Section 4: Core Leadership Theories
Lecture 9 Introduction
Lecture 10 Trait Theories
Lecture 11 Behavioral Theories
Lecture 12 Situational Theories
Section 5: Building Networks
Lecture 13 Project Management Maxims
Lecture 14 Building a Collaborative Network
Lecture 15 How to Create Positive Influence Using Commonly Traded Organizational Currencies
Lecture 16 Building Social Networks
Lecture 17 Mapping Dependencies
Lecture 18 Management by Wondering Around
Lecture 19 Managing Upward Relations
Lecture 20 Leading by Example
Section 6: Building Trust
Lecture 21 Ethics and Effective Project Managers
Lecture 22 Constituents of Trust
Lecture 23 Personal Character as a Trust Enabler
Lecture 24 Self-Confidence as a Trust Enabler
Lecture 25 Competence as a Trust Enabler
Section 7: Applied Project Leadership Styles
Lecture 26 Introduction
Lecture 27 Project Leadership Matrix
Lecture 28 Leadership SWOT Analysis
Section 8: Qualities of an Effective Project Manager
Lecture 29 Paradoxes of Project Management
Lecture 30 Qualities of an Effective Project Manager
Lecture 31 Recommendations for Project Managers
Lecture 32 What's Next?
Section 9: Closing Notes
Lecture 33 Project Success
Professional or practicing project managers,Aspiring project managers and project leaders,Functional managers and top management,Students,Individuals interested in Leadership and project management
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