FIVE-DAY PAIRED COURSE
Persuasion and Influence Skills for the Project Manager
Explore how persuasion and influence solutions can address your project challenges
As a project manager, you’re faced with the challenge of influencing people over whom you have no direct managerial authority. Whether it’s the team members themselves or the line manager who assigned them, project stakeholders or those at the executive level who control the project management process, your ability to persuade and inform is critical to your project’s success. In this course, you’ll perfect your written and oral presentation skills and gain the competency and confidence you need to influence stakeholders at multiple levels. Effectively negotiate with external subcontractors and internal service providers to attain win-win agreements.
Learn how to:
- Use practical models for influencing people without direct authority
- Build your credibility as a project manager and leader
- Understand organizational dynamics and politics and how they affect influence strategies
- Hone and polish your persuasion and influence communication skills
- Be more persuasive with project sponsors, stakeholders and team members
- Create a strategic and tactical persuasion plan enabling your success as a project manager
PMBOK™ knowledge areas:
- Communication management
- Human resource management
New! Valuable book included
Your registration fee includes a copy of the popular book, “Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind-the-Scenes” by Joel R. DeLuca.
Project Management Capstone
Apply your skills in this hands-on practicum
In this intensive lab experience, you’ll apply all of the skills necessary to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close a project. Working as part of a team on a simulated six-month, mid-sized, high-priority project, you will be responsible for developing the key project management deliverables, including the project charter, project plan, change control process, status reports and post-project reviews. You will facilitate meetings, update the project plan with actuals and changes, present status to management, justify your decisions to key stakeholders and determine the impacts of your actions on multiple projects. Under the guidance of a senior project manager, you will be given direct feedback and techniques to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Learn how to:
- Develop a project charter
- Define the functional requirements that address business needs
- Build a project schedule
- Present and report project status to key stakeholders
- Manage the effects of change on multiple projects
- Assign and resolve resource constraints
- Analyze variances and practice replanning
- Present and report project status to stakeholders
PMBOK™ knowledge areas:
- Time management
- Cost management
- Scope management
- Quality management
- Risk management
- Procurement management
- Communication management
- Human resource management
- Project integration
Program pre-requisite: This is the final course in the series. All other Masters Certificate classes should be taken prior to Project Management Capstone.
Proficiency in MS Project is required before taking this course. If you do not have a working knowledge of this Microsoft® project management program, please take Applying MS Project first.