Project Leadership & Management Diploma
IPMA-B/A®, NFQ Level 9, PLM Dip.
42 hours of Learning 
26 Weeks Welcome to the Course
Welcome to the Project Leadership & Management Diploma course. This is a self-directed learning programme designed to help you develop new skills at your own pace.
Rob Kidd
My name is Rob Kidd, and I am your Course Director on the Project Leadership & Management Diploma. Through this course, we’ll help you develop the skills and knowledge needed for successful project management.
By the end of this training, you will be able to develop the necessary skills to effectively manage any size of project from beginning to end.
Course Modules
- Strategic Project Leadership Competencies
- Building and Motivating Strategic Project Teams
- The Role of Strategic Project Leaders
- Building Engaged Stakeholder Networks
- Applying Agile Mindset to Strategic Projects
- Managing Power, Interests, Conflict and Crises
- Managing Virtual Project Teams
- Strategic Project Leadership Skills
- Structuring Project Organisations
- Leading Transformation, Innovation And Change
- Political, Ethical and Social Leadership
- Leading and Managing Global Projects
- Negotiating and Influencing Project Agreements
- Programme Review
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Appreciate the role and competencies of leadership in delivering excellence in projects and programmes in a global environment.
- Be able to critically evaluate three core substantive areas of organisational behaviour: leadership and followership; corporate and national culture; the primary task and effective team/group dynamics.
- Be able to analyse the nature, interests and different power bases of stakeholder groups and be able to prioritise and manage stakeholders and use power and interest techniques to minimize stakeholder dissatisfaction and deliver agreed project outcomes.
- Understand how to apply negotiating and influencing techniques to enhance the possibility of reaching satisfactory agreements with others.
- Understand how to apply adapt leadership style and role to group dynamics and be able to manage teams effectively in waterfall, agile and hybrid environments.
- Appreciate how to maintain personal integrity that supports an environment built on trust, that supports personal and organisational development and helps others feel secure and confident. Moderate or solve conflicts and crises by being observant of the balance between group dynamics, personal agendas and environmental resources and constraints.
- Reflect on the outcome of a self‐assessment against the behavioural domain of the Individual Competence Baseline of the International Project Management Association.
- Be able to construct a project plan to achieve objectives of varying scale, geographic dispersion and complexity, while mitigating the potential risks inherent in large, complex, intercultural and virtual projects.
Course Instructor
Rob Kidd
MBA, PGCLT, CMgr, FCMI FAPM, FHEA
Course Director
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.
David Shiel
MBA, IPMA-B®
David Shiel is a Senior Programme Manager in a Boston Scientific Strategic PMO – Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Region.
He leads teams of PM’s working on Transformation Programs to achieve the region’s Strategic goals.
With a proven track record of meeting Project scope, schedules, and budgets, he has a thorough understanding of commercial, product development, quality & regulatory requirements.
David also has experience of development start-up innovation tactics.
Dr. Andrew Bell
PhD, MSc, BA, RPP, FAPM, SFHEA
Andrew started his Project Management career with 15 years in the automotive industry at Land Rover where he quickly experienced the people side of delivering projects. He then spent 4 years as a Project Management Lecturer delivering short training courses on Project Management topics including Microsoft Project, and the related project management people skills.
Andrew then moved on to spend 13 years at Coventry University teaching Project Management and Research Skills, building his knowledge of Project Management and people issues with a PhD on the use of Project Management Simulations. He has volunteered for the APM for nearly 20 years, and has held committee positions on the Coventry Chapter, Midlands Branch, and National Branch Steering group and as chair of the People SIG committee.
Andrew is currently a ChPP Chartered Project Professional, a Fellow of the APM and also holds RPP status. Andrew has worked with the APM writing examination questions and reviewing membership applications.
Elizabeth Harrin
MA, FAPM, MBCS
Elizabeth Harrin, MA, FAPM, MBCS is director of Otobos Consultants Ltd, a project communications consultancy specialising in copywriting for project management firms. She has over 20 years’ experience as a project and program manager, having spent eight years in financial services (including two based in Paris, France) and then over 12 years in healthcare.
Elizabeth is a PRINCE2, MSP and P3O Practitioner, and holds the ITIL Foundation certificate. She is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a member of PMI. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University.
Elizabeth has written 7 books about project management: Managing Multiple Projects, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World (which was a finalist in the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014 and now in its second edition), Collaboration Tools for Project Managers, Communicating Change, Project Manager, Customer-Centric Project Management and Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to Harness People Power.
Joanna Koprowicz
Joanna Koprowicz earned a Master’s degree in Project Management from University College Dublin. Joanna worked in a typical waterfall environment after graduating from college, but she was later introduced to the Agile mindset and culture, which she quickly fell in love with and decided to pursue as a career. Joanna has been an Agile Coach, Trainer, and Consultant at Change Angels since 2018.
Nadege Minois
Nadege Minois has managed research and IT projects for 2 decades. She worked in 5 different countries and worked with people from all over the world. She experienced how sub-optimal communication can hinder the delivery of projects. So, she has decided, as a freelance consultant, to help project managers, their teams and organisations to set up project communication to deliver projects successfully.
Nadege has a PhD in Biology. She is a qualified Agile Project Manager, Programme Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and ScrumAgile Master.
Sheilina Somani
ChPP, RPP, FAPM, FHEA
Sheilina is a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) and Fellow (FAPM) with the Association for Project Management; Fellow of the Higher Educational Institute and Master NLP Practitioner.
Sheilina is an articulate Project Professional who has delivered successful programmes, project and products across diverse sectors. She founded Positively Project Management over 30 years ago. Currently, she is a Keynote Speaker, Chartership Assessor, C-Suite Coach, Mentor, Awards Judge, and Volunteer at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
Sheilina is known for her curiosity, willingness to learn, and drive for informed decision-making. Detail-oriented and quality-focused, she adapts positive and inclusive approaches. A sought-after speaker, facilitator, and trainer, she blends engagement, enthusiasm, and experience. Her expertise includes global projects, culture, communication, ethics, conflict resolution, integration, and organisational change.
Sheilina has developed and delivered apprenticeship, academic, and corporate training programmes. In 2021, she published ‘Cadence of Confidence’ to support personal development, using music to boost engagement. She enjoys the challenges of delivery, education, documentation, and people development.
Gordon Stewart
MBA PgD CITP MBCS
Gordon is an independent Consultant in Technology & Change.
A dynamic, commercially astute business and technology leader, with over twenty years of global experience leading multi-million dollar technology transformation projects, designed to drive operational efficiencies and revenue growth.
Strong track record working with boards and executive teams in companies across a wide variety of business sectors on the implementation of robust enterprise digital technology solutions, digital transformation, and business process improvement.
Padhraic Ludden
MSc, PMP®
Padhraic is a Consultant Program Manager with 34 years’ experience in the manufacturing sector and IT sector, over 30 of those with EDS and Hewlett-Packard and Storm Technology.
He has worked predominately as a Project/Programme manager providing IT application services to manufacturing companies such as GM and SKF.
Padhraic graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) in 1984 with a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering, holds a Masters in Project Mgmt (UL) and is currently conducting doctoral research with the Enterprise Research Centre, University of Limerick.
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Easy to Understand Course Structure
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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.
The overall pass mark for IPM Professional Diploma is 60%.
The pass mark requirement for IPMA® Professional Certification is 60% in the written examination, which is also a condition to be admitted to the interview (final step of certification).
Professional Diploma in Project Leadership and Management
Obtaining a professional diploma from IPM is partnering with a global authority with over 30 years of experience in project management training. IPM has trained over 40k professionals and certified over 6000 project managers.
IPMA Level-B/A® International Professional Certification
IPMA®, founded 1965 in Switzerland, is the world’s oldest professional project management association. It is recognised in over 70 countries across six continents. Eligible candidates can apply for IPMA Level-B/A® certification at a reduced rate.
NFQ Level 9 Special Purpose Award (15 ECTS)
Gain assured recognition of academic excellence with a university-credit-rated curriculum and a National Framework of Qualifications Award validated by Technological University Dublin - Ireland's 2nd largest University.
Overview of Course Assessment
The assessment for this course will be four written assignments (continuous assessment) and one final written examination.
You will be asked to complete four assignments during the course. Each assignment includes instructions for how to complete and submit your work.
Final Written Examination
The final written examination will be composed of 3 questions. Each question will require an answer of circa 750 words. The exam will be taken online. The duration of the final written examination is 3.0 hours. The questions will cover all the topics discussed during the course, as well as the Individual Competence Baseline, version 4 (ICB4).
Course Assessment Marking Scheme
Results will be processed after students submit the four written assignments and sit the final exam.
The assessment structure for this course is divided as follows:
- Continuous Assessment (70%), which consists of Assignment 1 – ICB4 Competence Self-Assessment (10%), Assignment 2 – Moving to Project Leadership (15%), Assignment 3 – Managing Strategic Agility & Stakeholders (20%), and Assignment 4 – The Nature of Leadership, Power & Change (25%)
- Final Written Examination (30%).
Course Pass Mark
The overall pass mark for NFQ Special Purpose Award is 40%.
The overall pass mark for IPM Professional Diploma is 60%.
The pass mark requirement for IPMA® Professional Certification is 60% in the written examination, which is also a condition to be admitted to the interview (final step of certification).
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.
+7 enrolled Course Includes
- 21 Modules
- 110 Topics
- 13 Quizzes
