Leading and Negotiating for Project Success
Certificate of Completion
14 hours of Learning 
12 Weeks About the Course
Successful leaders are not only technically astute, but they also lead their teams through challenging times to achieve success. Project management professionals are increasingly called upon to be both effective managers and leaders.
Highly effective leaders and negotiators make a profound difference in their projects’ results. Great project leaders are in demand, primarily because they can motivate people and guarantee successful results in any work environment.
This course is designed to help you learn how to lead and negotiate with stakeholders more effectively, raise team morale and increase clarity around the business value contribution of various members of your project team. By the end of this course, you will have the skills to become a master negotiator and an impactful leader to drive project success.
Course Modules
- What is Leadership
- Leadership Attributes
- Leadership v Management
- Situational Leadership
- Teamwork
- Team Diversity
- Team Development
- Negotiation
- Conflict
- Let’s Review
Learning Outcomes
- Lead a project team effectively.
- Adapt your leadership style to suit the situation.
- Manage your project team to give it the greatest chance of success.
- Negotiate effectively through thorough planning and adopting a win/win mindset.
- Recognise and resolve conflict in the project context.
Course Instructor
Rob Kidd
MBA, PGCLT, CMgr, FCMI FAPM, FHEA, PRINCE2
- Consultant
- Educator
- Strategic Change Projects
- 15+ years' Experience
Rob is a freelance project management consultant and educator based in London, UK. He has over 15 years’ experience managing projects, and helping organisations to manage projects better. In recent years, he has focused on strategic change projects in the food and hospitality industry. Rob also serves as a charity chair, non-executive director and board advisor.
Rob is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, the Association for Project Management and the Higher Education Institute. He is a certified PRINCE2 and Agile Practitioner. He holds an MBA (Technology Management) from the Open University and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching from BPP.
FAQs
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Flexibility to Study
You will have 12 weeks to complete the course you have enrolled on after receiving the enrolment confirmation email. You can study at any time during the day or night. You don't need to be online at the same time as the lead instructor or other learners.
Easy to Understand Course Structure
The course structure is quite easy to understand. Our courses are composed of different modules/units. Each module/unit has been divided into sub-topics. Each topic has a video, study notes, additional materials, and key terms to facilitate your study. At the end of each module, there is a quiz to test your understanding of the topic. Once you are done watching the video and reading the study notes and additional material, you can click on the Mark as Complete button at the bottom of your screen. You can watch each video as many times as you want and take notes from it.
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As the profession of project manager grows and changes, maintaining your relevancy is a must. You have a significant competitive advantage by investing effort in sustaining your certifications. You can get a better position and a higher chance of being the solution the company needs.
The courses offered by IPM help in gaining these PDUs. To understand PDUs better, please read this article.
IPM Certificate of Completion in Leadership & Negotiation
Demonstrate your skills with an IPM Certificate of Completion. IPM is a global authority in project management training. Over the last 30 years we have trained 40k professionals and certified 6000 project managers.
Professional Development Units
In a business world of constant change and disruption, maintaining your relevancy is a must. This course contributes 14.0 PDUs to the record of your Continuous Professional Development.
About the Institute
Since 1989, the Institute of Project Management has dedicated itself to creating the highest-quality education, training and certification in project management. We have trained over 40,000 individuals as project management has become widely used throughout the entire economy.
Through our unique training and education programmes, we help organizations to develop people – people who gain not only knowledge and skills but also the ability to put them to use immediately to meet the challenges they face.
Faculty of Excellence
In today’s increasingly competitive and financially difficult environment in-depth knowledge and professional expertise is everything. The faculty from the Institute of Project Management is setting the standard for project management education and certification in Ireland.
Led by Ed Naughton, IPMA Fellow and one of the world’s most respected figures in project management, the faculty combines academic excellence from both the university and institute of the technology sector with practitioner experience. The faculty spans finance, business administration, computer science, engineering, industrial relation and human resources, law, management information systems, and marketing.
The students benefit from a rigorous exposition of the depth and breadth of subject matter expertise brought to the topics by the faculty members.
+9 enrolled Course Includes
- 11 Modules
- 44 Topics
- 10 Quizzes
