PMI40500 - Project Management Leadership

(3 units)

This course addresses the development of leadership skills to build and sustain high-performing project teams. Emphasis will be on leadership styles, team building, team problem solving and decision making, empowerment and coaching, and leading change.

The course builds on the principles of human resources management and project management and covers the three areas in the PMBOK Guide® for project HR managers: organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development. Within these areas, emphasis is given to leadership and behavioral theories that impact change, communication, motivation, stress, conflict, negotiation, leadership and politics in a project-management environment.

Students study facilitation, negotiation, teamwork, communication, presentation, interpersonal, and conflict management skills, with specific attention to project management applicability.