Courses

Good leadership includes good communication skills but those skills have to be learned and then planned for. Whether you are a great communicator or you find yourself with misunderstandings across a team dynamic this course can help direct you to building a plan that works for your individual stakeholders and team members. Aspects of this course will help you identify communication styles so you can effectively communicate and finally put together a plan that works.

2 Professional Development Units (PDU)

More and more project teams are virtual and global. Many manager struggle to understand different cultures and manage diversity as well as different communication styles. This course is developed to help managers gain a world view and strengthen their global virtual teams.

2 Professional Development Units (PDU)

PMI®, PMP®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

For many years’ team motivation fell to the back burner of corporate necessity while the focus was on profit and process. Now organizations are beginning to see the value in team and individual motivations, work styles and general happiness at work. This short course will review different theories through time, personality styles and how to apply that information to your own team dynamic.

2 Professional Development Units (PDU)

PMI®, PMP®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

For many people negotiations can be a challenge even for seasoned negotiators who don’t always get exactly what they wanted from the interaction. This short course will describe a variety of ways to prepare for a negotiation, how to plan for what you want to gain and several proven negotiation techniques that you can fit to your communication and personality style. Once you know your style of negotiation and theirs you can more appropriately plan for success.

2 Professional Development Units (PDU)

PMI®, PMP®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Using best practices in project management can be difficult in the real world. This course combines both concepts to help with the understanding of what MS Project software is doing in the background and how to take advantage of “perfect world project management” in a real world setting.

Using a combination of best practices from A Guide to the Project Management Body of  Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) 5th Edition and step by step instruction in MS Project Professional 2016 you can begin to implement those best practices right away on current and future projects. If you are a power user of Project you can jump around to only what you need to know and use those techniques immediately. If you are newer to project management and project software you can take your time and work through from beginning to end. Templates used in the course are provided for practice and the courses helps gain or maintain your PMP® or CAPM® certifications.

PMI®, PMP®, CAPM®, and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Using best practices in project management can be difficult in the real world. This course combines both concepts to help with the understanding of what Microsoft Project software is doing in the background and how to utilize it for your projects.

To stay relevant in the competitive, professional world, it’s increasingly important that professionals can demonstrate true leadership ability on today’s software projects. The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that students are ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management and delivery.

The PMI-ACP® spans many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP) and test-driven development (TDD). So it will increase students’ versatility, wherever your projects may take you.

In this instructor led, online training course, students will learn how use their current Waterfall project management best practices and to adopt and apply effective Agile best practices. This course will introduce Waterfall teams to Agile frameworks to allow for effective tailoring on current or future projects.

In this instructor led, online training course, students will learn the fundamentals of Scrum, Scrum framework, how to master Scrum, planning a project with Scrum, and keeping Scrum healthy.

Working with Kanban boards is an overview workshop on the values of using a Kanban approach in any project management framework, including the values and the steps to create a Kanban board. Students will learn about how to set up their own board and see some different situations that may arise during their workflow. The course will end with a demo and an interactive Kanban board using an online platform. Students will be encouraged to log in and use a live Kanban board and work together to build out the project assigned. The ability to create and use a Kanban board with a good understanding of how they work and why they are so effective will influence your future projects, whether they are Agile projects, Waterfall projects or a tailored approach.