ONCE0209 - Project Management: Leading The Team

Course Description

Project team leadership is often the most challenging part of successfully managing your project. In this class, you'll focus on the third domain, People, as you learn how to develop and manage your project teams to maximize output and minimize disruption. You'll practice strategies for distributing tasks and information, motivating your team, and focusing on your own credibility and accountability to build trust and inspire confidence.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to: 

• Describe the PMI framework for Human Resource Management and the role of the project team leader; 
• Appraise existing team leading skills, discover competencies, and create an Action Plan for obtaining desired competencies; 
• Identify their personal team leading style and discover how to leverage it; 
• Utilize tools for building a robust project team; 
• Obtain a strategy and tools for a powerful project launch; 
• Gain strategies for creating a beneficial team environment that engages, motivates, empowers, and supports project team members; 
• Identify the stages of team development and options for the leader’s actions/approach in each stage; 
• Gain perspective and a tool for giving and receiving effective feedback; 
• Choose from a variety of techniques and styles for managing conflict on teams; 
• Utilize tools for maintaining team focus on priorities. 

Instructor Biography

Julie Spokus, Scrum Master, is an experienced IT Specialist with over 20 years of experience. Her work experience has been in the following fields: K-12 education, higher education, legal, healthcare, and government contracting. She got her start in the IT field as a technical trainer, and then moved into agile software development as a product owner and a scrum master. She is passionate about agile software development and holds various agile certifications as well as the PMP. Julie's education includes a Master of Art in Teaching Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Mount Vernon College and a Master of Science in Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia.

Cancellation, Withdrawal and Refund Policy

A participant who withdraws from a non-credit course, in writing, up to one-week prior to the starting date of the course, will receive a refund, minus a $25 withdrawal fee; for all certificate programs the withdrawal fee is $50. For courses costing $75 or less, the withdrawal fee is $10 per course. No refunds will be given after that time. E-mail your withdrawal request to: course.withdrawals@temple.edu. Please note that if you do not officially withdrawal from a course and you do not attend the course, you are still responsible for payment. Temple University reserves the right to cancel a course for any reason. If the course is cancelled, you will be notified and your entire tuition will be refunded.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Certificate in Project Management : Project Management Component