New Horizons Computer Learning Center
410-597-9722

Project Teams

Course Length: 1 Day

Overview:
In this course, students will learn to build and manage a team to develop a successful project.

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify the phases and requirements of a successful project, build and organize a project team, and avoid pitfalls in project teams
• Identify the characteristics of a project team, understand whom the project stakeholders are, recognize how individual responsibilities and stress affect the team, and how team members can self-evaluate
• Identify various roles in project team meetings, maximize the effectiveness of team meetings, understand the purpose of introductory meetings and the goal-setting process, and identify various issues that a team might face during team meetings
• Communicate effectively through active listening and nonverbal and verbal communication techniques, and receive and give effective feedback
• Use various methods of decision-making, resolve team conflict, and achieve consensus in a project team
• Empower and motivate a project team, develop a positive culture, identify the causes of change in a team, manage change, and improve existing project teams

Course Content

Lesson 1: Projects and Project Teams

• Project fundamentals
• Project teams

Lesson 2: Creating a Project Team

• Characteristics of a project team
• Individual responsibilities

Lesson 3: Conducting Team Meetings

• Team meetings
• Introductory meetings
• Pitfalls to successful meetings

Lesson 4: Communicating in a Project Team

• Listening skills
• Verbal communications
• Feedback

Lesson 5: Decision-Making in a Project Team

• Methods of decision-making

Lesson 6: Preparing Teams for Project Work

• Empowerment and motivation
• Change management
• Existing project team improvement

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