Motivating and Managing Successful Project Teams

Course Overview

Project success often depends on choosing, motivating, and leading the project team. This course, based on PMI®’s PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition, focuses on improving the project manager’s human resource expertise, from initial planning through project closure. Participants will apply all course principles to a work-related case study taken directly from their work environment. At course completion, students will be able to develop a human resource plan, acquire optimal team members, and develop and motivate team members to accomplish project goals.

Course Length

2 days (14 contact hours)

Target Audience

This course is intended for:

· Project managers, project team leads, and project team members (with or without a currently-active PMI certification) who want to gain a deeper understanding of and hands-on experience with project leadership tools, techniques, and outputs, as documented in the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition.

· Professionals who hold current PMP®, PgMP®, or other PMI credentials, who wish to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their PMI certification.

This course is not intended as direct preparation for any PMI certification exam.

Prerequisites

To ensure that you benefit fully from this course, you should have experience managing, leading, or contributing to projects. A PMI project-management credential such as PMP® or CAPM® is recommended but not required.

Author

Brian Salk, PhD, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, has over 30 years of experience, specializing in hands-on traditional and agile project management, training, and consulting. He manages a variety of consulting and training programs and projects for his organization and for a number of Fortune 500 customers. His global clientele includes organizations in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to authoring courses, Dr. Brian frequently delivers project-management certification training (e.g., PMP®) and project-management best practices training. He is a four-time winner of the prestigious Worldwide Excellence in Training award, recognizing the 25 highest-rated instructors from a network of over 2,400. Dr. Brian earned his PhD from Fielding Graduate University and his Masters of Arts (Education) from the University of Michigan.