PSLDMPMP1310 - Introduction to Project Management for Leaders
In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective leadership is crucial for ensuring that projects deliver effective outcomes on time and within budget. Leaders often serve key roles on projects providing leadership as project sponsors, product owners, decision makers, and subject matter experts. Leaders often provide perspectives and insights that can help guide projects to successful outcomes. With the rapid advancements in technology and the ever-evolving competitive landscape, project management has become increasingly complex. Projects often introduce risks and face significant organizational and resource challenges that can derail even the best-laid plans.
Designed specifically for business leaders, the Introduction to Project Management For Leaders course offers a fast-tracked introduction to essential project management principles and techniques. This course empowers you to support project managers as they deliver results effectively and consistently by focusing on key areas such as:
- Initiating and Planning Projects: Define project goals, scope, and deliverables to set a solid foundation for success.
- Building Effective Teams: Discover strategies for assembling and nurturing high-performing teams that collaborate seamlessly to achieve project objectives.
- Leading Teams to Execute Projects: Gain insights into leadership styles and team development models that motivate your teams to perform at their best.
- Controlling Performance: Master the art of monitoring and evaluating project progress to ensure that business value is delivered and objectives are met.
Join us to increase your personal success as a leader and elevate the success of your projects. Don’t let complexity and challenges hold you back—take the first step towards mastering project management today!
This course has been approved for 8 SHRM Recertification PDU's.
Course Details
This course is designed for leaders, business professionals, managers and leaders in for-profit or non-profit environments who are seeking to advance their knowledge of proven project management practices and techniques. Practicing project managers also benefit from this program, especially those with little or no formal training on project management practices.
By taking this course, learners will take away a practical knowledge of project management fundamentals that they can apply immediately to their workplace teams.
The estimated Cost of Attendance (COA) for Introduction to Project Management for Leaders is up to $550.
Financial assistance information can be found on Rice Financial Aid's Visiting and Continuing Education Students page.
Due to the high demand for courses, registrations are considered final as of 10 working days before class starts. No refunds will be issued after these dates and credits will not be given for future classes. No refunds will be granted for participants who miss a portion of a program. Refund requests before the deadline are subject to a 10% processing fee of the full published price and must be made in writing to gscs@rice.edu. If books have been issued, the cost of the books and any shipping fees will be deducted. Refunds for credit card payments will be processed as credits to the accounts from which they were paid and may not appear as a credit until the following statement. Refunds for enrollments paid by check take up to four weeks to be processed and mailed by the Rice University accounting office. There is a $30 charge for any check returned for insufficient funds.
The workbook for Introduction to Project Management for Leaders will be distributed on the first night of class.