Project Management 360

Offered byeCornell

Project Management 360
at
eCornell
Overview

Gain the communication skills and emotional intelligence needed to get the project done on time and within budget

Duration	6 months
Start from	7 days to go
Total fee	₹6.04 Lakh
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Project Management 360
at
eCornell
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of course from Cornell University's College of Engineering
Learn from expert faculty
Real world projects
Learn on your schedule without stepping out of your job

Project Management 360
at
eCornell
Course details

Skills you will learn

PMP Budgeting Project Management Communication skills

Who should do this course?

Team leaders

Managers

Anyone responsible for the success of team projects and initiatives

Professionals with exposure to project management efforts or tools but no formal training

Project management professionals preparing to take the PMP exam

Students interested in pursuing a Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (M. Eng.) degree in Cornell’s College of Engineering

What are the course deliverables?

Develop the emotional intelligence needed to lead a high-performing team

Communicate more effectively with stakeholders throughout the project’s life cycle

Take on multiple leadership styles as the situation requires

Develop the tools and skills to manage damaging conflict while fostering healthy conflict

Identify ways to monitor the critical performance aspects that many project leaders miss

Develop the emotional intelligence needed to lead a high-performing team

Communicate more effectively with stakeholders throughout the project’s life cycle

Take on multiple leadership styles as the situation requires

Develop the tools and skills to manage damaging conflict while fostering healthy conflict

Identify ways to monitor the critical performance aspects that many project leaders miss

Examine the project management life cycle and key project characteristics

Develop a work breakdown structure

Construct a project network to identify task durations

Construct a Gantt chart

Use float information for decision-making

Identify the critical path

Recognize shortcomings in computation

Identify sources of uncertainty in task durations

Examine PERT computations

Study the PMBOK and complete practice exams to help prepare for the PMP exam

More about this course

In this course students will prepare to lead successful large-scale projects by refining both your project leadership and project management skills

As a project leader, you need to think both strategically and tactically to lead high-functioning teams to meet your objectives

Students will learn how to scope projects effectively, improve time budgeting and resource allocation, and gain the communication skills and emotional intelligence needed to get the project done on time and within budget

Project Management 360
at
eCornell
Curriculum

Leverage Emotional Intelligence for Project Results

In this course, you will learn to identify, analyze, and manage emotions, both yours and your team members

Communicate Well to Drive Project Outcomes

This course,you will examine typical project-related communication problems and explore practical strategies for overcoming them

You'll learn to host kick-offs and lead meetings that actually guide the team toward successful outcomes

Turning Groups Into Teams

This course,will show you how the fundamentals can help turn a group of workers into a high-performing team

Leading Project Teams

Learn how to manage safety concerns, when to be directly coercive, and see how creative collaboration and a shot of inspiration can turn things around for a team

Managing Conflict on Project Teams

In this course, you'll learn to identify various causes and sources of conflict and learn to foster healthy disagreement within a project team

Monitoring and Controlling Projects

In this course, you will examine the human elements of project monitoring and control and review common errors that occur on projects

You'll learn how to ask the right questions and improve team connectedness

Organizing the Project and Its Components

In this course, shares clear, understandable, and practical methods for achieving better results

You will practice breaking down a project into pieces that can be scheduled, tracked, and controlled

Planning and Managing Resources

This course is designed for project managers who seek better practical results for aligning available resources with tasks and bringing activities to completion on time

Students will examine compression strategies for bringing a project that's running late back on track and will explore how to handle common types of project creep, such as handling customer requests that require extra time, and working with team members who decide independently to invest extra effort in a task

Assessing, Managing, and Mitigating Project Risk

In this course, you will examine the nature and types of project risk and learn to apply specific mitigation strategies

Using Earned Value Management for Project Managers

This course is designed for project managers who seek an introduction to EVM to achieve better practical results for implementing project controls, including financial controls and schedule controls

Agile Project Management Approaches

This course is designed for project managers who want to get better practical results with adaptive approaches to projects

Students in this course will be most successful if they have a foundational understanding of traditional project management tools and processes including project networks, budgets and schedules

Project Management 360
at
eCornell
Faculty details

Linda Nozick

Linda Nozick is Professor and Director of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She is co-founder and a past director of the College Program in Systems Engineering and has been the recipient of several awards, including a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton for “the development of innovative solutions to problems associated with the transportation of hazardous waste.”

Robert Newman

Experienced upper manager and change agent with an outstanding track record of delivering organization development, business growth, and management at providers of technology, capital equipment, consumables, and support services at world-leading engineering focused organizations. Successfully managed the integration of teams following four acquisitions, performed a very successful business turn around, and drove seven years of dramatic growth at a start-up.