Nidhi Misra, MS has extensive experience in Project Management in the IS/IT arena, is a former member of the OP3 Project team, and now leads her own project consulting firm.

This course will help you develop the Project Team Management skills needed to ensure project success. The class high levels of to extend your leadership and human relations skills to manage projects form inception through successful conclusion. You will deal with both technical and human resource issues, and use constructive feedback as the main tool for improving writing and reporting skills for management review. This course is a 'workshop' that depends on your participation, your constructive comments, and your willingness to accept comments.

Areas/Topics covered include:

Managing Project Teams
Team based project management, The role of the Project Manager, Attributes of the successful project team manager, Project team management skills, Personal strengths and weaknesses in project teams, Selecting project team members

Behavior and Motivation in Project Teams
Motivators and team performance Overcoming and eliminating demotivators The law of requisite variety Creating shared team visions Identity, information and empowerment Relationships and core values

Team Formation
Collaboration, cooperation and cohesion Attributes of effective team leaders Team building and team work The stages of team formation, Forming, storming, norming and performing Climate and commitment Goals objectives and plans

Team Leadership
Attributes of effective team leaders Social power and motivation Core leadership processes, Leadership styles, Situational leadership in practice, Integrating new members

Decision Making and Innovation
Decision styles and applications, Expert, consensus, and consultative decisions, False consensus and group think, Climate, creativity and innovation, Information and acceptance in informal networks, Efficient and effective meetings Managing hidden agendas

Improving Team Performance
Core processes and team performance Project process reviews Interviews, surveys and data management, Leadership trust and communications, Discussing the "undiscussable", Anger, punctuation and metacommunication,

The text readings are used as departure points for discussion and creation of your own work, and are not designed to be step-by-step guides for Project Management. Whatever strengths your writing already shows are encouraged, and whatever weaknesses are identified and worked upon. In this manner, you receive a program of practice, feedback, and instruction that is tailored to your individual needs.

There will be seven formal papers (one of which will be a 6-10 page research paper, one an introductory 1 page paper, and five 3-5 page papers). For each lesson, you will critique one student paper.

Some of your own writing will be presented for comments and discussion by the other students. This will happen at least once during your enrollment and possibly twice. The discussion papers use previously submitted documents, and involve no extra preparation on your part.

Lessons will also involve readings from The Practice of Writing, an on-line discussion of those readings, and exercises designed to highlight particular methods of rhetorical control, or to encourage flexibility. In some cases, those exercises will involve collaborating with your fellow students. A Writer's Reference will be used to address problems in grammar and usage as they occur.

Team Based Project Management |

(Contact Everest College, CPE for pricing and Availability)

Recommended Readings

• Scholes, Robert, The Practice of Writing, 4th edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. ISBN: 0-312-10312-3.
  
  
• Hacker, Diana, A Writer's Reference, 4th edition, Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-312-17161-7.
  
  
• One current issue of Wired Magazine, available at a local newstand -- (but don't buy it until you reach Lesson Seven)

A word-processing program, such as WordPerfect or Microsoft Word. If you use a different program you may have to send and receive documents as 'text-only' documents without formatting.


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