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Leading Effective Complex Projects

Course Code
4111124

Leading a complex project requires a new way of thinking—identifying key variables, anticipating future changes, predicting the results of possible actions. This course examines effective leadership principles and presents practical methods for decision-making, conflict management, communications, and team development. The focus is on identifying and enhancing your personal skillset based on systems thinking perspectives.

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  • Start Date November 11
  • Time N/A
  • Duration 16 Hours
  • Program Type Open-Enrollment/Public
  • Certificate Type FlexCert
  • Format Self-Paced Online
  • CEUs 1.6
  • PDUs 16
  • Fees $1,310
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Leading a complex project requires a new way of thinking—identifying key variables, anticipating future changes, predicting the results of possible actions. This course examines effective leadership principles and presents practical methods for decision-making, conflict management, communications, and team development. The focus is on identifying and enhancing your personal skillset based on systems thinking perspectives.

Leading Effective Complex Projects

Program Experience

As a project manager, it is crucial to possess strong leadership and communication skills in order to drive successful projects within your organization. This includes effectively managing a team and fostering a positive and productive work environment.

Through the Leading Effective Complex Projects Certificate Program, you will have the opportunity to develop and refine these essential skills through hands-on activities and real-world project scenarios. With a focus on identifying factors that make a project complex and making effective decisions under uncertain conditions, you'll discover how you can create a collaborative atmosphere where everyone feels valued and motivated to contribute their best efforts towards project success.

Our real-world, experienced instructors will guide you through the most challenging aspects of team management, providing you with the tools you need to apply systems thinking principles while managing  conflict with confidence and certainty.

Leading Effective Complex Projects can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Benefits

You will learn to:

  • Identify factors that make a project complex
  • Make effective decisions under uncertain conditions
  • Manage conflict without draining your energy
  • Apply systems thinking principles and tools to project management
  • Communicate decisions to your team and senior management
  • Build and maintain high-performing, motivated project teams
  • Master difficult aspects of team management
  • Lead innovation, developing talent 
  • Manage conflict
  • Apply systems thinking principles

Leading Effective Complex Projects can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

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Who Should Attend

While there are no prerequisites, participants should have at least five years of experience managing projects.

  • Managers
  • Project managers
  • Business analysts
  • Technical professionals
Schedule
Course Duration Self-Paced Online
Leading Effective Complex Projects 12 16 Hours

November 11, 2024 release; completes
December 8, 2024

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Instructors

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David Shostak

Systems Engineering, Aerospace Project Management

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