Persuasion and Influence Skills for the Project Manager and Project Management Capstone
Course pre-requisite: This is the final course in the series. All other Masters Certificate courses should be taken prior to Persuasion and Influence Skills for the Project Manager & Project Management Capstone. Basis proficiency in MS Project is recommended before taking this course. If you need basic knowledge, please take Applying MS Project to Plan, Schedule, and Control Your Projects.
Successfully initiate, plan, execute, control, and close a project
As a project manager, you’re faced with the challenge of influencing people over whom you have no direct managerial authority. Project success depends on your ethical political savvy to persuade all of your key stakeholders and to communicate with them in a persuasive manner. In the course, 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, work breakdown structure (WBS), scope and cost management, project schedule, resource leveling, status reports and post-project reviews.You will learn how to:
- Use practical models for influencing people without direct authority
- 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
- Apply the skills in a hands-on practicum with a project and receive real-time coaching
- Facilitate meetings to develop a charter and WBS for the project
- Estimate work efforts, and develop a budget and project schedule
- Level resources and resolve resource constraints
- Prepare and present a project status report
PMBOK™ knowledge areas
- Time management
- Cost management
- Scope management
- Quality management
- Risk management
- Procurement management
- Communication management
- Human resource management
- Project integration
This five-day course combines:
Persuasion and Influence Skills for the Project Manager
AND
Project Management Capstone
* Save nearly 20% on paired courses
Take advantage of a discounted fee for attending both courses in the same week. The schedule runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8am to 4pm on Friday. Dinner is included the evening before the course and on days 1, 2, 3 and 4.
pfriede@exed.wisc.edu