Project Management: Fundamentals of Project Leadership

Learn professional strategies to motivate and guide your project team towards projects success

Created by: Cunhibert Nalumva
MEng | Project Manager | Industrial Engineer

What Will I 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.

Target audience

• Professional or practicing project managers
• Aspiring project managers and project leaders
• Functional managers and top management
• Students
• Individuals interested in Leadership and project management