Overview

It is not enough to be a good administrator or good manager. Today, getting things done successfully requires leadership. Project Leadership focuses on the need for leadership on project teams. Leadership is particularly important when running projects, because traditional hierarchy-based command and control skills do not work in project environments: you cannot command team members to plan, execute, and sustain excellence—you must lead them to do what needs to be done.

Project Leadership adopts an innovative learning style. It makes heavy use of real world examples. Students are given scenarios to review and then asked to suggest how a leader would deal with them. In addition, they are guided to learn more about themselves by taking a number of behavioral tests, including the Leadership Practices Inventory, the LEAD test, the Leadership Effectiveness Profile, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, and the Thinking Styles Indicator. The test results are then tied to strategies to strengthen leadership ability.

PMBOK Knowledge Areas

• Project Communication Management
• Project Human Resource Management

Instruction

• Course modules containing cutting-edge knowledge developed by renowned experts in project management
• Course Textbook: Project Leadership, by Dr. James P. Lewis
• Mentors Studio™ CD-ROM: Leadership, featuring Dr. James P. Lewis
• An instrument package including 5 self-assessment instruments
• A final exam which contains multiple choice and true/false questions
• Certificate of Completion, which makes students eligible for 30 PDU credits (given upon exam completion).

What You Will Learn

• What leadership is and how it differs from management
• How leadership requires followers: If no one is following you, then you aren’t a leader
• How different leadership styles can be employed, including: visionary, coaching, relationship building, democratic, pace setting, and command styles
• How your personality preferences as determined by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter can be used to make you a better leader
• How your interpersonal relationship preferences, can be used to make you a better leader
• How the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument can be used to make you a better leader

Take a Course

This course costs $990. You can begin the course today, with no application necessary. There are four easy ways to sign up:

• Secure Online Payment (VISA, Master & American Express)
• Registration Form [Word]. Mail the form with your check to: UMT, 1901 North Fort Myer Drive, Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22209-1609.
• Fax the form to us at (703) 516-0985.
• Register by phone at (703) 516-0035.

Once the payment has cleared, you will be issued an ID name and a Password that will allow you to access the full course.

To access the course, log into the UMT online coursesite with your USER ID and PASSWORD at: coursesite.umtweb.edu.